How Can I Help my Child with Reading Comprehension?

Dec 14, 2012 Infer: Making inferences is similar to the text-to-world connection strategy. Gradually work with children on drawing conclusions based on what information they know. Likewise, show them how to make educated guesses, and to look for hints to back up their reasoning. You could make lists and pictures together to help this strategy along. As always, model inferring for your child in an clear and direct way, so that she can see how you derive conclusions. READ MORE

Activating Prior Knowledge

Dec 14, 2012 Prior knowledge is when students make connections to the text they are reading. Good readers constantly try to make sense out of what they read by seeing how it fits with what they already know. When we help students make those connections before, during, and after they read, we are teaching them a critical comprehension strategy that the best readers use almost unconsciously. READ MORE

Building Fluency

Sep 21, 2012 What is Fluency? According to the National Reading Panel, fluency is the ability to read text with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Fluent readers can recognize words automatically. They are also able to read aloud effortlessly with expression, and do not have to concentrate on decoding. Instead, fluent readers can focus on comprehension. Why is Fluency important? Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. READ MORE

Question-Answer Relationship

Jan 25, 2012 Question-Answer Relationships - QAR QAR is a strategy that teachers at Enos are using with their students. The following is a brief explanation of QAR and ways you can use this strategy with your child at home. What Is It? Question-Answer Relationships, or QAR, is a reading comprehension strategy developed to clarify how students approach the tasks of reading texts and answering questions It encourages students to be active, strategic readers of texts. READ MORE

Think Pair Share

Nov 30, 2011 What Is Think-Pair-Share? Think-Pair-Share is a cooperative discussion strategy that can be used across the curriculum. It gets its name from the three stages of student action, with emphasis on what students are to be DOING at each of those stages. How Does It Work? 1) Think. The teacher provokes students' thinking with a question or prompt or observation. The students should take a few moments (probably not minutes) just to THINK about the question. 2) Pair. READ MORE

Think Alouds

Nov 7, 2011 Good readers: Draw on background knowledge as they read Make predictions as they read Visualize the events of a text as they read Recognize confusion as they read Recognize a text's structure/organization as they read Identify/recognize a purpose for reading Monitor their strategy use according to the purpose for reading the text Students need to think while they are reading. READ MORE

Building Fluency

Sep 16, 2011 What is Fluency? According to the National Reading Panel, fluency is the ability to read text with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Fluent readers can recognize words automatically. They are also able to read aloud effortlessly with expression, and do not have to concentrate on decoding. Instead, fluent readers can focus on comprehension. Why is Fluency important? Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. READ MORE

Welcome Back!

Aug 22, 2011 Getting you child in the habit of reading at home on a regular basis can work wonders in increasing their enjoyment of reading; which will eventually translate into higher reading scores. Here are some helpful hints to get your child reading! 1. Read aloud, read aloud, read aloud! It does not matter how old your child is; s/he still loves to hear stories read out loud. Seeing you get excited and emotional over a book will make him/her eager to read on his/her own. READ MORE