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Enjoy Using these Reading and Instructional Strategies at Home. ( This page is constantly being updated. Please check back again. Thanks.)

Story Frame After reading a story, have your child copy the sentence starters and fill in a story frame. This is a great way to teach summarizing and came from "The Reading Teacher" Copyright 1982 by the "International Reading Association." STORY FRAME for ... In this story, the problem starts when ... After that ... Next, ... Then, ... The problem is finally solved when ... The story ends with ... (Make sure your child is very specific with naming the characters and giving a brief description of each. Also, the events need to be specific in detail and yet brief and to the point. However, this should not be a very lengthy assignment.) What kind of questions can I ask about a fiction story or book? Here are some questions to help your child stay focused. Whenever possible use actual character names and actual events in the questions. What are the main characters and tell me something unusual about each? When and where did the story take place? What happened that started the action in the story? How are your characters feeling and how do you know that? What did the main characters decide to do and why? How did the main characters carry out their plan? What finally happened because of the actions? Drawing scenes to help summarize or use graphic organizers. You can have your child draw what he or she believes a scene or several scenes from the story would look like. Also, students love to tell the whole story in comic book form. Even drawings using stick figures can help students retell what was important in the story or book. Use graphic organizers like we do at school to help your child "Get it together and see the whole picture." The CRISS Learning Plan Here is the CRISS Learning Plan: "To have success with reading, viewing, and listening, you need to: PREPARE by thinking about what you already know and by setting purposes. BE INVOLVED as you read, view, and/or listen. Think about the information, make connections, monitor your understanding. ORGANIZE the information by transforming it in a new way, i.e., use different words, draw pictures, create a map. APPLY what you have learned to solve problems, to make connections, and to apply the information to new situations." CRISS Keys To Learning KEY No. 1. AUTHOR'S CRAFT KEY No. 2. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE KEY No. 3. PURPOSE SETTING KEY No. 4. ACTIVE LEARNING KEY No. 5. METACOGNITION To make the keys work, we need to remember to: 1. WRITE 2. DISCUSS 3. ORGANIZE Look in my website for Online Tutorials and Online Practice or Online Books Have your child practice with the online links I have on some of my pages located at the bottom of my left navigator bar. I have linked a few webquests to search through and plenty of online books to read also.