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Create silly sentences with your child where each word starts with the same sound. Say them together and have a fun time! Such as "Sally sells sea shells by the seashore)

This is a fun activity that will help your child understand more about phonemic awareness and the sounds that they hear, while also enhancing the creative side of learning. Lots of laughs will be had with this activity!
This website provides parents with a few different at home activities that can help their child to understand what phonemic awareness is.

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Encourage your child to listen for words that rhyme when you say them aloud, such as fun, sun; hat, cat; and fish, wish. See if your child can produce new words that rhyme with the words you say-fan, pan, ran, can, tan.

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Phonemic Awareness Activities for Parents | Heggerty

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Research shows that phonemic awareness is the strongest predictor of success in learning to read. Heggerty offers literacy activities for families.

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Allow your child to be creative and draw a picture representing each vocabulary word on their list!

This activity allows your child to come home and not just be quizzed or expected to study all the words, but it allows your child to be creative and it can also help them remember the words easier because now they have an image to go with it.
This website provides parents with tips on how to help improve vocabulary skills at home, vocabulary sometimes seems like just words and definitions, but this website provided parents with ways that will benefit their child more.

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Building vocabulary is key to helping children make sense of the words they are reading. Learning new words starts when babies are born and continues throughout life. A strong vocabulary helps to increase a child's chance for academic success.

Below you will find 9 tips families can use at home to build a young reader's vocabulary.

Have Conversations

Talk with your child every day. By talking and listening, your child will build oral language and vocabulary.

Example: Talk about your child's school day. Ask her to describe the highs and lows of her day at school. Prompt her to explain details of what happened, how she felt, and the ways her classmates or teacher reacted.

Involve Your Child

Cooking, gardening, or other activities around the house provide opportunities for children to learn new vocabulary words.

Example: If your child is helping make cookies, you can introduce cooking terms (measure, cups, teaspoons, etc.) while showing him what the words mean.

Use Big Words

You don't always have to use "easy" words when speaking with your child. Show him there are different, fancier ways of saying words he already knows.

Example: Descriptive words such as "heartbroken" and "upset" can be used in place of the word "sad."

Go for a Walk

The great outdoors provide many opportunities for children to discover and learn. Going for a simple walk around your neighborhood can help your child learn and use new words.

Example: Point out different vehicles you might see. You can discuss types of cars, different sizes (mini, large, humongous), or the purpose of each type of vehicle (delivery vehicle, bus, ambulance, family vehicle).

Talk About Books

While reading with your child, make sure to discuss the story.

Example: Use a variety of words to describe characters or events from the story. If your child comes to a new word, talk about the meaning and try to explain it in a way your child can understand.

Tell Stories

Telling stories is an engaging way to get your child talking and asking questions, which is also strengthening her vocabulary.

Example: Tell your child about when you were young. Talk about trips you might have taken or how school might have been different when you were young.

Sorting and Grouping Objects

By putting objects in groups, children can learn new words that label the category. You also can discuss the ways in which items in the groups are similar or different. Toys are great for sorting and grouping.

Example: Ask your child to group a set of toys by color. Next, ask him to arrange the toys by size. Other examples include sorting clothing for the laundry or items in your recycling bin. Ask what the items have in common, what he would name the groups, and how he would tell the groups apart.

Keep Track of New Words

Help your child be aware of learning new words, by keeping track of them at home.

Example: One way to keep track of words is to keep a running list of them. You might do this by creating a word wall at home. Simply write new words on index cards and display them on a wall in your home where you are likely to see them often and be reminded to use them when talking with your child.

Make Meaning of Words through Art

Use drawing, painting, or acting to help your child learn new words.

Example: Have your child create a drawing to represent a new word she has learned. Also, have your child act out the meaning of the word. These are fun ways to help your child remember new words.

Building vocabulary is critical to your child's reading success. You can use these 9 tips to help your child learn new words in fun and easy ways.

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9 Tips to Build Your Child's Vocabulary at Home

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Building vocabulary is key to helping children make sense of the words they are reading. Learning new words starts when babies are born and continues throughout life. A strong vocabulary helps to increase a child's chance for academic success. Below you will find 9 tips families can use at home to build a young reader's vocabulary.

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Use the 5-Finger Retell
Ask:
Characters – Who was in the story?
Setting –  Where did the story take place?
Events – What happened in the story?
End – How did the story end?
Your Take – What was your favorite part?

This activity helps your child recall what they have just learned within the story, yet not feel like they are being tested. A fun ending is that they can share their favorite part (and parents can too)!
This website gives parents the tips and tools to help at home. It also provides some games to play!

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Developing strong reading comprehension skills is crucial to your child's future success. But many children struggle to master these important skills in the classroom. The good news is that there are plenty of ways for parents to help their children improve reading skills outside of the classroom. Here's how parents can help with reading comprehension at home:

Start A Family Book Club

Use Online Reading Comprehension Worksheets

There are a number of websites that allow parents to print reading comprehension worksheets for free. Each worksheet will include a short passage followed by questions about the passage.

Ask your child to complete these worksheets so they can practice their reading comprehension skills at home. The more they practice, the more they will improve their reading comprehension skills.

Create Graphic Organizers

If your child is a visual learner, creating a graphic organizer is a great way to improve their reading comprehension skills .

There are several ways to use graphic organizers to improve your child's reading comprehension skills. For example, create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast characters in a story. Or create a storyboard that shows the sequence of events that took place in the story.

Creating these graphic organizers can help your child understand the relationship between characters and events, the chronological order of events, and other concepts.

Play Audio Books

Some children are auditory learners, so they may benefit from listening to audio books . Instruct your child to follow along with the narrator while you play an audio book. Auditory learners may be able to extract more meaning from the text by listening and following along as opposed to reading independently.

Encourage All Types of Reading

Practice is the key to improving reading comprehension , so encourage your children to practice as much as possible. Don't limit your children to books, either. Encourage them to read anything they may find interesting, which may include comic books, newspapers, and magazines.

Focus On Your Child's Favorite Topics

Studies show that reading multiple books on the same topic can actually help your child improve their reading comprehension skills more than reading multiple books on various topics.

Use this research to your advantage by finding books related to your child's favorite topics. Does your child love baseball? If so, check out a handful of different baseball-themed books from the local library. Is your child interested in the solar system? Find five or six books on the planets.

Discuss the books with your child once you're done reading. Ask your child to compare and contrast the books to check their comprehension and keep them engaged.

Compare Books and Movies

Download the Readability App

Let your child work on their reading comprehension skills anytime, anywhere with the Readability app, which is available for Apple and Android devices.

Readability's Interactive Voice-Based Questions & Answers (IVQA) feature allows your child to communicate with the app just like they would with a reading tutor. The app will ask your child questions about the text and listen to their answers to keep them engaged and improve their reading comprehension skills.

You can even keep a close eye on your child's progress using the parent dashboard, which will . Use the dashboard to watch as your child drastically track your child's pronunciation accuracy, comprehension, and time spent reading improves their reading comprehension skills over time using this innovative app.

Download the app on your smartphone or tablet to start your free 7-day trial today.

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How Parents Can Help With Reading Comprehension At Home

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Learn how parents can help with reading comprehension at home so you can improve your child's crucial reading skills.

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-Read aloud to your child and talk with them about the tone and expression you use while you read!

This activity will help your child to build confidence in their fluency and learn from you and your expressions, plus it's a fun bonding activity:)
This website provide parents with information about fluency and activities they can do at home to help improve their child's fluency skills.

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Children who can read accurately, quickly and with expression will have an easier time understanding what they read because they won't be stuck on sounding out words. Building fluency is like building a muscle, it takes practice by doing repeated readings to get stronger and faster. Fluency also improves comprehension by adding expression and appropriate phrasing. Children will love to hear how their fluency breathes life into a story they read aloud!

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Third Grade Fluency Goals | 3rd Grade Fluency Activities

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Children who can read accurately, quickly and with expression will have an easier time understanding what they read because they won't be stuck on sounding out words. Building fluency is like building a muscle, it takes practice by doing repeated readings to get stronger and faster.

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-Write a word on the board, have a student come up and change one letter to make a new word, keep the chain going until no new words can be made.
-Create a phonics worksheet and have the students complete it. For extra practice, have the students read aloud each word they find.

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-After a student reads a story, have them write down 3 things they learned, 2 interesting things, and 1 question they have.
-Have them complete a chart with these three categories: What I already know, What I Want to Know, and What I have learned.

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-Have the students find all of the words on their weekly vocabulary list in the dictionary and write down the definitions.
-Create a short story using all of the vocabulary words, this can help them learn the word meanings and also allows them to be creative!

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-An easy activity is to have the student read out loud!
-Create a sentence tree. Start with one word, and add a new word to the sentence on each new line. By the time you have completed your sentence, it should look like a tree!

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-Play I-SPY! Most kids love I-SPY and it's an easy way to practice phonics. All you have to do is say 'I-SPY with my little eye something that starts with.." USE THE SOUND that the letter makes.

This activity will help your child identify the letter that goes with the sound that you say. This website is a helpful activity that allows your student to explore phonics and the sounds that go with by providing videos.

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Starfall's movies, games, and ebooks create an environment where children have fun as they learn to read. We use a proven sequential phonics method.

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- Say a word and have the students repeat the word, then, have them repeat it again except delete a phoneme or replace a phoneme. (Ex. "Say STRAY, now say it again without the R".
-Have students clap out the syllables and sounds they hear in various vocabulary words.