Reading Beyond the Primary Grades
How to Help Your Reader
Reading Practices in School
These are just a few things to keep in mind when working with your student at home.
Students are expected to perform in three settings while in school.- Instructional Priorities
- Knowledge Standards
- High-Stakes Assessments
What we need to remember as parents and educators is that reading is:
- Social
- Comprehension is Constructive
- Shaped by Our Purposes
- Strategic
Everything we read can be thought of in each of these ways. Comprehending is a way to construct what we need to know and what we want to know. We read for all different purposes; fiction and non-fiction, textbooks and entertainment, informational and technical. Each thing that we read, we do so in a strategic way so that we can draw understanding.
Ways to encourage your reader through any text
Negotiating a Variety of Reading Contexts
- Activate their background knowledge
- vocabulary
- make connections
- use internal text structure
- check for comprehension
- create meaning for the text
- reflect on and appreciate theme
- discuss author's purpose and point of view
Teacher or Parent Guided Learning
Reading aloud
Thinking aloud
Modeling discussion with another teacher or parent