ways to help your child at home
- Do a picture walk together to discuss what the story may be about
- Encourage your child to check the picture first before reading the words as he/she turns the pages
- If your child stops, give wait time for him/her to try to solve it first
- If your child is stuck on a word, ask him/her to go back and read the sentence again
- After rereading at the hard part, ask your child to make the first sound of the tricky word
- Provide two possible choices of words that make sense, if your child is still stuck on a word
- Let some meaningful mistakes go and PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE