How Can You Learn Together at Home?
Vocabulary plays a key role in the reading process and is critical to reading comprehension. Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through everyday experiences with oral and written language. Other words are learned through carefully designed instruction.
While reading with your child this weekend, and you come across a word that your child has never heard before try the following steps…
Pronounce the word correctly.
Reread the sentence with that vocabulary word, with a word or phrase that your child would understand.
Have your child pronounce the word.
Ask them if they can think of an experience or time in their life that they can connect to the word.
