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What is Comprehension? Watch here for a brief explanation of what comprehension is and why it is important in helping support your child's early reading.

Digital Comprehension Resource: Utilize reading comprehensions quizzes on Education.com. With options of fiction and non-fiction books this gives children a chance to test their knowledge after reading or listening to a book to ensure they are getting all of the key details.

Offline Comprehension Resource: During read alouds at home ask your child to summarize a page, chapter, or book in their own words. You can also practice the skill of summarizing and rewording with TV shows, commercials, movies, or even instruction you give your child about putting away the dishes!

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What is Vocabulary? Watch here for a brief explanation of what vocabulary is and why it is important in support your child's early reading.

Digital Vocabulary Resource: Use the Merriam Webster Weekly Vocabulary Words for Kids site! Each morning you can learn a new word together. Help expand upon the word definition by challenging your child to use the word in a sentence or try and find the word in a book at your home or out in the community while going on a walk or drive.

Offline Vocabulary Resource: Play "Gone Camping" with your child. This game is best played if you can write out the words on paper or a mini-whiteboard to help students both hear and see the words. You will be picking a "rule" such as all words will have double consonants. The child is guessing words to help them figure out the rule. For example if they say can you bring Lolli Pops the answer is yes, but if they say can they bring Chocolate the answer is no.

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What is Fluency? Watch here for a brief explanation of what fluency is and why it is important in helping support your child's early reading.

Digital Fluency Resource: Use a digital recording tool, such as Audacity, to let your child record their own audio books. Have your child pick a book or poem they are able to read independently. They will record themselves reading and then listen to their recording. From there they can re-record if they think there are things they could change to make it a stronger audio piece! This idea is inspired by Reading Rockets.

Offline Fluency Resource: Turn your nightly read aloud into an echo reading adventure! In echo reading you will read a line and then your child will echo that line back. This allows them to work on expression and word pronunciation. It will be okay if they are echoing sentences they may not be ready to independently read yet.

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What is Phonemic Awareness? Watch here for a brief explanation of what phonemic awareness is and why it is important in helping support your child's early reading and spelling.

Digital Phonemic Awareness Resource: Play Blending Sounds Photoshoot. This game allows children to practice identify both the onset and the rime of words they here spoken aloud!

Offline Phonemic Awareness Resource: Work on rhyming words with your child! This is a great activity that can be done anywhere, even in the car ride to soccer practice! Various ways to work on this skill include saying two words and asking your child to repeat the words back to you and then say rhyme or no rhyme. Example: Hot/Hat don't rhyme, but Hot/Lot does rhyme. You can add to the challenge by asking your child to tell you which letter sound changed. You can also play a game in which you come up with rhyming words until one player is stumped.

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What is Phonics? Watch here for a brief explanation of what phonics is and why it is important in helping support your child's early reading.

Digital Phonics Resource: Use Digraphs Demolition to help your child master common digraphs and blends like TH- CH- and SH-. This fun video game is engaging way to practice identifying these sounds in a variety of words!

Offline Phonics Resource: Use index cards to make flash cards to use at home. Start by using the 26th letters of the alphabet and have your child say the letter sound when they see the letter. You can progress laying out multiple flash cards to form a 3-letter word, for example B-A-T. Have your child say each letter sound and then say the whole word BAT.

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What is Phonics? Why Is It Important for My Child to Read?