Ideas to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader
by DeAnne Fuhriman
Proficient readers use two sets of strategies
Surface: navigating the print on the page
Skills needed for readers to read fluently and accurately
- Letter / sound knowledge, phonics
- Word knowledge
- Language Structure
Deep Within: Images, knowledge, wonderings, inference, themes, important ideas, and understanding
Skills and strategies for comprehension
- Background knowledge, connections, schema
- Images from the senses
- Questioning
- Determine importance, main ideas
- Inferring
- Synthesizing
Share your reading lives
- Read to your child
- Encourage conversations (reading is a social activity)
