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Reading Strategies for Holidays

Helping Struggling Readers on Holidays

From Sue Watson, About.com Guide

  • 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

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