Reading

Reading at home each night is important to help your child build reading skills such as fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.  Here is a list of discussion questions to use with your child when reading a fiction text.  Just pick a few questions from the list to ask your child after reading.  It is not necessary to ask every question each time.:

• Where and when does this story take place?  How do you know?
• What is the story about?
• Who are the main characters?
• Why did the author write this story?
• What is the problem in this story?
• How was this problem solved?
• Did the story end the way you expected it to?
• Who is telling the story?  How would the story change if someone else were telling it?
• Does the main character in the story change over time?  How does he/she change?  How do you know he/she changed?
• If you could be any character in the story, whom would you choose?  Why?
• Why do you suppose the author gave the book this title?
• Did you have strong feelings as you read this story?  What did the author do to make you feel strongly?
• Make a flow chart to show what happened in this story (sequence events using sentences, can also add pictures).