Links

This is the link to several video examples of how parents can help their children practice their Phonological Awareness skills at home! 

• Have them point to each word as they read.  
• Make connections to the story and your child's life.
• Locate high frequency words within the story. 
• Have your child retell the story or discuss the story the important things in the story.
• Your child can write one or two sentences about the story.  They can write their own sentences, or you can dictate sentences to your child.  Your child can illustrate their sentences too!

• Read each word and read at the speed of which the reader speaks. 
• Pause at punctuation.
• Use word structure and meaning to help self-monitor errors.  Do not immediately correct your child if errors are made, but rather, ask the child if the sentence made sense to him.  Have him find and correct the mistake instead.  
• Recognize the genre of the story (fiction, nonfiction) and tell what makes the story that genre. 
• Recognize high frequency words. 
• Have your child write a couple sentences about what was read.  You can even dictate a couple sentences instead if you would like.  Have your child illustrate the sentences (they love this part!).  

• Apply decoding strategies to read each word. 
• Read at the speed of which the reader speaks. 
• Pause at punctuation and read with expression. 
• Use word structure and meaning to help self-monitor reading errors.  Do not immediately correct your child if reading errors are made, but rather, ask the child if the sentence made sense to him.  Have him find and correct the mistake instead.  
• Discuss the important details of the story.  
• Discuss the characters in the story.  Make connections to the reader's own life-experiences. 
• Compare and contrast the story to another story that has been read. 
• Recognize the genre of the story (fiction, nonfiction) and identify the elements of that genre. 
• Recognize grade-level high frequency words. 
• Have your child write sentences about what was read.  Have your child illustrate the sentences. 

• Your child should read at the same speed as they speak.
• Use context clues to help understand the meaning of a word. 
• Recognize high frequency words. 
• Identify the author's reason for writing this book?
• Recall the important events/facts in the book.
• Write a summary of what was read.  What happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story? Use the Story Map worksheet as a guide. 
• For fiction texts, describe the character. Use the Character Web worksheet as a guide. 
• For nonfiction texts, what were some of the facts about the topic?
• Connect the book to events or people in the reader's life.