Kindergarten Reading Tips
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1. Read to your child every night for at least 15-20 minutes. Be sure that the book from which you are reading is at your child's reading level. If you have questions with this, please check with me. Pronounce the words carefully and clearly, and make appropriate pauses for periods and commas.
2. Listen to your child read. Have your child continue reading the same book aloud for for another five minutes. He or she should begin at the point where you stopped reading. Remind your child to take it slowly and read so that the words make sense. This why your oral reading is so important. It's setting an example for your child. Don't stop and correct your child while he or she is reading.
3. Check how well your child was listening and reading by asking general questions about the material you read aloud and the material he or she read aloud. Talk about the story together.
4. Hold a Power Reading session with your child as often as possible. It's an excellent way to improve reading skills and demonstrate the importance you place on reading. Start with a book that's of a particular interest to your child and continue using this same book for Power Reading sessions until it is completed.