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members are important influences on a child's educational success. As a parent, what should you know to help your child improve his skills and achieve those goals? What are the things your child needs understand what he reads? The goals of reading are to understand written text, integrate new ideas, and from what is read. Following are some skills necessary for good reading and some ways you can help. VOCABULARY COMPREHENSION and with expression chunk words into phrases appropriately. fluency helps children comprehend what they read. not the same as speed just reading fast; it's we should talk so that understand what we are Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. A reader cannot understand a text without knowing what most of the words mean. Students learn the meaning of most words indirectly, through everyday experiences with oral and written language. Comprehension is the understanding and interpretation of what is read. To be able to comprehend written material, children need to be able to: • Decode what they read; • Make connections between what they read and what they already know; and • Think deeply about what they have read. often to your child; the hears a story, the more words will become and the for your child to read. to read to you — she reading and you will progressing and where trouble. If you don't have her read, ask her to brother or sister, or to a pet or Practice really does help to read into a tape number of times. The more reads, the better she'll sound, able to hear the difference. to your child read it "quickly" and let them hear sounds. This will help them it should sound. • Learn the meaning of new words. The larger your child's vocabulary, the easier it is for him to understand the meaning of the text. • Read to your child each day. When the book contains a new or interesting word, pause and define the word for your child. • Discuss the meanings of unknown words, both those he reads and those he hears. • Study word parts. If your child knows the meaning of a root word ("kind"), then he'll know what the new word means when the prefix ("un"/not) or suffix ("ness"/state of being) is added. (unkind, kindness). • Talk about the relationships between words. Synonyms are words with the same or similar meanings ("bucket/ pail"), and antonyms are opposites ("good/bad"). Your child may also need help learning figures of speech, such as, "It's raining cats and dogs." • Discuss what your child has read. Ask your child probing questions about the book and connect the events to his or her own life. • Help your child go back to the text to support his or her answers. • Know and share the rules for putting words into meaningful sentences. Making a statement into a question requires changing the order of the subject and verb, such as "That was a good story." to "Was that a good story?" • Help your child understand the "unspoken" ideas, such as: inferences, main idea, and differences between facts and opinions. • Give your child many background experiences, such as visits to zoos and museums; and activities, such as cooking, shopping, and trips to other places, ordinary and not so ordinary. The more experiences a child has had, the more he can connect what he is reading to what he knows.