Strategies to Help Your Child Read
Take a Picture Walk /Regardez dans le livre
Before reading the story have your child look at the pictures and predict what the story will be about. Talk about the pictures with him or her. Bring up any words you think they may not know. Introducing them to new information will help them read unknown words.
Pictures Can Help/Regardez les dessins
Encourage your child to look at the pictures to figure out unknown words.
Do a “Popper” /Préparez ta bouche
When your child comes to an unknown word ask him or her to look at the first letter, get his or her mouth ready, and "Pop!" out that first sound. They will be able to guess a word. Ask your child if the word makes sense or fits in the sentence. "Does the word look right?" "Does the word sound right?" "Does the word make sense?" After several attempts, give your child the word and have him or her continue reading. When your child “figures out” a word, you might ask how he/she did it. Talking about their reading helps to reinforce learning.
Skip it and Reread/ Sautez et relire
This strategy encourages your child to use meaning to figure out an unknown word. If your child stops at a word while reading a sentence, have him or her skip over it and read to the end of the sentence. Then reread the sentence to see if there is a word that looks right, sounds right and makes sense.☺Please note: This strategy should be used sparingly as it is not always effective with young reader
Look for Little Words in Bigger Words
Vois-tu un petit mot dans ce grand mot?
Look for little words in bigger words, for example, ou inside the word joue or on inside the words mon. This helps your child learn common letter patterns and combinations.
Look at the punctuation
Regardez la ponctuation
Talk about punctuation marks and what they mean. Do they change how you should read a sentence? This will help your child read with expression and to read with meaning. Fluent reading should sound like they are talking.
Make predictions:
Que penses-tu arrivera?
Encourage your child to make predictions before, during, and after reading.
Talking about the Book.
“After-Reading” Strategies and Ideas
True readers think about what they are reading. We read for meaning and connect on different levels to the text. We also question what we are reading and wonder what might happen next. Having children talk about their reading (what they liked, what they were wondering about, how it might relate to their lives) are all very important elements to fostering strong literacy skills.
Encourage your child to ask questions about the book before, during, and after reading.
Encourage your child to make “connections” to the book.
· Personal connections are connections to their own lives ( De quoi ce livre te fait penser dans ta vie?)
· Text-to-text connections are to other books ( Est-ce que ce livre te fait penser d’un autre livre?)
· Text-to-world connections are to what they know of the world ( De quoi ce livre te fait penser?)
Visualise
Encourage your child to create their own pictures in his or her mind while reading
Find it, Read it, Put it back together!!!
Copy out one sentence from the book. Cut the words apart.
"Find it" - Mix up the words in front of your child, say a word and have them find it.
"Read it" - Point to a word and have your child read it.
"Put it back together" - Ask your child to put the sentence back together and read it to you.