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a consistent time to read with your child. It will become a wonderful habit.

Picture-walk through the story. Have your child predict what the story is going to be about.

Find the title and the autho

Echo-read

some of the lines on a page in your book. You read the sentence first, and then have

Keep the read-together a fun experience for the whole family. Try these two read-together

activities:

Choral-read

part of a story or a page in the book together. You read part of the page first;

then have your child read the same part with you again. Use your pointer finger as you read

the words in the story.

Continue the read-aloud to finish the book or

your child read that same sentence after you. Point to the words as they are read. Stop echo-

• Remember to ask questions about the story. Let your child be the teacher. Have him/her

ask

you

questions,

too.

• Have your child re-tell the story in his/her own words. What happened

What happened

after? (Reference a

event in the story when asking this question.) How did the

story end?

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Use the space below to write down one thing you learned and will practice at home:

the chapter.