Implementing the Interactive Strategies Approach in a Response to Intervention Context
Helping Your Child Become a Reader – 2024 Edition
Helping Your Child Become a Reader – 2024 Edition PDFs can be downloaded as a full version, or as individual sections.
Parent Booklet - full download
Individual questions and answers from the parent booklet can be downloaded and printed from the links below.
- How can I encourage my child to like reading?
- What kinds of books should my child be reading?
- Sometimes my child brings home books to practice reading that they have already memorized! What should I do?
- Sometimes my child seems to spend more time looking at the pictures than reading. Is this a problem?
- Children’s teachers often talk about phonics instruction. What is phonics and what does it have to do with reading and spelling development?
- Why is my child sometimes reluctant to sound out unknown words. What should I do when this happens?
- What should I do when my child makes a mistake while reading?
- Sometimes my child reads a word correctly on one page but can’t figure it out on the very next page. Why does this happen? (And what should I do?)
- Is it OK for my child to skip over words they do not know?
- On some days my child seems to have more difficulty reading than other days. Should I worry about this?
- Sometimes my child seems to have trouble reading a whole sentence without going back and re-reading parts of it. Is this a problem?
- Sometimes, when my child is reading, he gets annoyed if I tell him a word he doesn't know. Why?
- How much time should my child spend reading?
- What should I do if/when my child tries to avoid reading?
- What kinds of things should I read to my child?
- What can I do to help my child understand what is read – both when we are reading together and when my child reads independently?
- Should I engage my child in writing at home? If so, how?
- What should I do when my child spells some words incorrectly when writing?
- Why does my child sometimes have trouble remembering how to accurately spell common words?
- What can I do to help my child learn to spell more accurately?
- When my child confuses letters like b and d and words like was and saw, does it mean they may be dyslexic?
- What is dyslexia?
- If caregivers are told that their children are having difficulty learning to read, what can they do to help?