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Helping Your Child Become a Reader – 2024 Edition

Helping Your Child Become a Reader – 2024 Edition PDFs can be downloaded as a full version, or as individual sections.

Parent Booklet - full download

Individual questions and answers from the parent booklet can be downloaded and printed from the links below.

  1. How can I encourage my child to like reading?
  2. What kinds of books should my child be reading?
  3. Sometimes my child brings home books to practice reading that they have already memorized! What should I do?
  4. Sometimes my child seems to spend more time looking at the pictures than reading. Is this a problem?
  5. Children’s teachers often talk about phonics instruction. What is phonics and what does it have to do with reading and spelling development?
  6. Why is my child sometimes reluctant to sound out unknown words. What should I do when this happens?
  7. Sometimes my child reads a word correctly on one page but can't figure it out on the very next page. Why does this happen?
  8. Is it OK for my child to skip over words they do not know?
  9. On some days my child seems to have more difficulty reading than other days. Should I worry about this?
  10. Sometimes my child seems to have trouble reading a whole sentence without going back and re-reading parts of it. Is this a problem?
  11. Sometimes, when my child is reading, he gets annoyed if I tell him a word he doesn't know. Why?
  12. How much time should my child spend reading?
  13. My child avoids reading. What should I do?
  14. What should I do if/when my child tries to avoid reading?
  15. What can I do to help my child understand what he reads and what we read together?
  16. Schools seem to be involving young children in more writing than I remember. Should I be writing with my child at home too?
  17. Should I engage my child in writing at home? If so, how?
  18. What can I do to help my child learn to spell more accurately?
  19. My child sometimes mixes up letters like b and d, or words like was and saw. Does this mean she has dyslexia?
  20. I have been told that my child is having difficulty learning to read. What can I do to help?

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