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The I Read You Read Game

1/24/2014

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(This is one of several answer to the question, "What can I do at home to help my child with reading?")

The I-Read, You-Read Game

Use a book that your child is supposed to be reading for homework, or a book your child has read before, or a book your child has not read before that is at the right level.

For grade 1 and grade 2, use a Frog and Toad or other book by Arnold Lobel, or a favorite

For grade 3, use an Amelia Bedelia or a Fancy Nancy, or anything by Ezra Jack Keats, or a favorite 

For grades 4 and 5, use whatever book they are currently reading

Rules:

a.     Child reads a page to you

b.     You retell or summarize that page in a sentence (or two) out loud (not in writing)

c.      You read a page to the child

d.     The child retells or summarizes the page

Keep going until you have read for 20 minutes or until the book is finished, whichever happens first (likelier in the youngest grades to come to the end of the book first!) or until each of you has had as many turns as the child is old.

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    Teacher, K-MA; writer, mostly non-fiction and poetry; author, three books about teaching writing K-6. Still teaching, still writing: now fascinated by how children's vision issues get in the way of their READING. Latest book: Red Flags for Primary Teachers.

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