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During Reading
What is happening so far? While your child is reading, it is important to check for understanding. One common problem kids often experience is when they read the words on the page, but fail to internalize the meaning behind the words. By stopping to ask what’s happening in a story (the cause and the effect), you check on your child’s comprehension, and can intervene if necessary.
What do you think will happen next? Making predictions is an important reading comprehension strategy that allows kids to use clues they picked up while reading the story to apply them to a possible outcome. By asking kids to make predictions, teachers and parents can tell if kids are truly understanding the story.
What are you picturing in your head as you read?When we read, we usually picture the events and characters in our minds. This helps the story to come alive, and helps us connect to the plot in a motivating way. Mental images as we read also serves as an important reading comprehension strategy. By allowing kids the chance to verbalize or draw their mental images as they read, they review story events that aid in reading comprehension.
Questions to ask after reading...
What is happening so far? While your child is reading, it is important to check for understanding. One common problem kids often experience is when they read the words on the page, but fail to internalize the meaning behind the words. By stopping to ask what’s happening in a story (the cause and the effect), you check on your child’s comprehension, and can intervene if necessary.
What do you think will happen next? Making predictions is an important reading comprehension strategy that allows kids to use clues they picked up while reading the story to apply them to a possible outcome. By asking kids to make predictions, teachers and parents can tell if kids are truly understanding the story.
What are you picturing in your head as you read?When we read, we usually picture the events and characters in our minds. This helps the story to come alive, and helps us connect to the plot in a motivating way. Mental images as we read also serves as an important reading comprehension strategy. By allowing kids the chance to verbalize or draw their mental images as they read, they review story events that aid in reading comprehension.
Questions to ask after reading...
- If you could give the book another title, what would it be?
- Which characters would you like to meet in real life?
- What do you wish was different about the ending?
- Would the book make a cool movie? Video game? TV show?
- What is one thing you could ask the author if you could talk to him or her?