What your child is expected to know in Pre-Kindergarten?

       

Pre-Kindergarten Handbook

Everything you need to know about your Pre-Kindergarten year.

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Many parents ask, How do I know if my child is developing on an average level?

This may help you to understand your child's developmental stages.

             

 

Help your child become a better reader by following these easy tips.

~Link~ Helping Your Child to Read

~Invite your child to read with you every day.

~When reading a book, point word by word as you read. This helps to teach   your child that reading goes from right to left as well as one to one correspondence.

~Read stories with rhyming words and lines that repeat.

~Stop throughout the story to talk about the pictures.

~Read your child's favorite book over and over again.

~Ask your child what they think will happen next and teach the word 'prediction'.

~Discuss new and unfamiliar words with your child.

~Reading together in the evening as part of the bed time ritual can make the job easier.

~Let your child retell the story in their own words.

~Read from a variety of children's books, including fairy tales, song books, poems and information.

~Help make reading fun by using different voices for different characters as you read.

~Take your child to the library often.  Let them choose a book that they can read and a book for your to read to them.

Research has found that the more a child practices reading, the better they get at it.  Read with your child and in front of your child. Modeling is the best example.

Students should use these strategies to help when they come to an unknown word.

• Check the picture for a clue.

• Go back and read the sentence again.

• Get your mouth ready for the first sound in the unknown word.

• Look for parts of the word that you already know such as- ug, in, at, un, etc, and beginning sounds.

• Think about what word would make sense in the sentence.

Ideas for Reading Enrichment

-Read a story with your child and have them draw and describe their favorite character.

-Read a story with your child and have them write or discuss the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

-Have your child think and write a new ending to a favorite story.

-Encourage your child to write a letter to a friend, help them address it and mail it.

-Start a daily dialogue journal between you and your child

-Go to the library and choose a children's author and begin and author study with your child. Read several of the author's books and compare and contrast the stories, characters, and settings.

-Read a new story and have your child make a poster to advertise the book.

-Give your child a spiral notebook to use as a diary. On a regular basis, encourage your child to draw pictures or dictate some comments about an event that happened during the day. Remember to note the dates. It will be fun to look back at these pages later, you will see great changes in your child's writing ability.