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Parents, you can help. Here is information for you, but also check out and do some of the activities at the bottom of this page with your children.

Read Books Together The importance of reading together: Older children also love to read books together with their parents, grandparents, or older and younger brothers and sisters. Before you read, discuss some of the pictures, hard words, or background knowledge of the subject. During reading, everyone can take turns reading aloud and asking/answering questions. MAKE REAL-LIFE CONNECTIONS, ALSO. After reading, you can do writing activities or have discussions. Depending on the subjects involved, you may even do an outing such as a movie on the same subject. "Here is a way to improve your reading comprehension for school and tests, for work and life." according to Merit Software. Interactive online lessons from Merit Software : Parents as well as students can benefit from these interactive online lessons from Merit Software. They are designed to help anyone improve in reading comprehension and building vocabulary skills. Be sure to view all six pages by clicking on NEXT at the bottom of the page. It would be wonderful if parents, grandparents, or older brothers or sisters could go through these activities with my students at home. Let me know if you liked them. You can write a note in your child's planner addressed to me. QARs Click here for "kimskorner4teachertalk.com" and a wonderful explanation: Question Answer Relationships (QARS) is another CRISS strategy to help you when reading and answering questions. Here are two types where answers are found right in the reading selection: RIGHT THERE: These answers are easy to find because they are usually in one place "right there" in the text. THINK AND SEARCH: You have to look for the answers in more than one place in a reading selection. You can find examples of these in the FCAT Reading test practices that we do here at school as well as in our READ XL textbook. Write and read your own stories or articles together. After reading stories or articles, many students generate ideas of their own for writing. Encourage your child to create stories and/or articles on subjects they know about like baseball, gymnastics, cooking, skateboarding, etc. Then enjoy reading these together or have your child read his/her creative work to you. This is a great activity for family fun. Have a big assignment to do...perhaps in another class other than reading? Look into the Big6™! Here you will find how to get organized and complete an assigned project or paper and have fun doing it. The "Big6™" is copyright © (1987) Michael B. Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz. For more information, visit: www.big6.com Learn to TYPE "Meet the gang and learn to type. Make your way through all 12 stages and you can be a top typist."