Mrs. Berry’s Tips for Reading Books at Home
1st grade
1. Talk about the parts of the book: the front cover, the back cover, the title page and the spine.
2. Talk about the title of the book.
3. Do a “picture walk” of the book without reading the words.
4. Predict and infer about what the story will be about by looking at the pictures.
5. Have the child read- moving his finger under the words. Look for beginning and ending sounds. Look for blends and rules that have been learned in phonics.
6. After your child has read the story, read the story again simultaneously with your child. It takes 3 good times of reading the same story for the child to decode all of the words and begin to comprehend what the story is about.
7. Take turns- you read a line/page, they read a line/page.
8. When your child can read it independently, have him read it to everyone he can.
**As your child becomes more fluent, you will be able to skip some of the beginning steps.