- practice the sounding out of unfamiliar words, try a word a day - write the words on a piece of paper and put them in the 'word' can for daily practice;
- encourage keypals online or letter writing to distant relatives; discuss silent letters and brainstorm words with silent letter, begin a collection and read the words frequently
- keep a reading diary, let children record each book read and include the author;
- engaging in word studies and maintaining word logs for spelling and vocabulary development;
- let children read road signs, recipe books, titles in newspapers etc.;
- take turns reading selections from appropriate books; encourage students to make predictions
- provide opportunities that promote comprehension and synthesis skills after watching shows on the TV or at the theater.
- provide opportunities for both fiction and nonfiction reading at the child's ability level;
- encourage children to summarize selections or summarize events in movies and TV shows
- encourage a reading diary, include sentences about what they think will happen next;
- encourage the use of prefixes and suffixes (con, pro, per, pre, de, tion, able, tive, sive, tion, ture, able, ible, age, ant, ent, ize,)
- practice a new word each day - read these word lists frequently;
- encourage children to write or verbalize the sequencing of events in a story, movie or TV show;
- play word games, scrabble, hangman, boggle etc. encourage diary or journal writing
