Upper Literacy & Continued Reading: Third-Eighth Grade
If your child is a student in Levels 3, 4 or 5, they have probably already mastered the basics of reading, and hopefully are even reading for pleasure. As with any age, the more your child reads, the more their skills will improve. It is important to keep encouraging and motivating your child to continue reading - both for enjoyment and for academics.
Even if your child is older, it can still be greatly beneficial to read out loud to and with them. Reading a book together as a family is a wonderful way to connect with your child, especially if afterwards you discuss the book or ask questions related to the text you recently read.
1. Continue reading aloud books that challenge your child's listening vocabulary and thinking skills. Reading books that are above your child's reading level will help him or her grow as a reader.
2. Encourage your child's independent reading. Provide a steady flow of books and conversation about them.
3. Help children who seem to lose interest in reading find the time to read at home for pleasure. Make sure that their lives haven't become overly scheduled.
4. Help your children find more reasons to write. Enlist them in taking messages, making the shopping list, writing letters, and answering email.
Classic fiction and other more recent novels to read aloud together
Longer chapter books for "middle readers"
Books in a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
How is your child developing as a reader? What can you do to help a student who might not be reading at grade level yet? The following checkup from rif.org can assist you in evaluating your child's progress through the stages of independent reading. Each checkup describes the knowledge and skills that most children demonstrate at a given stage, and gives additional information on how each of those skills can be nurtured further.
Introduce your Child to All
Types of Books
excerpts taken from rif.org
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