READING AT HOME ASSISTANCE

FLUENCY

Reading with your child at home will increase their fluency. While reading with them, make sure to allow them time to TRY to sound out the words they don't know. If they have tried to sound out the word and still don't know it, please feel free to help them and/or tell them the word. Have them re-read the sentence from the beginning now that they know the word. Below is a video of a strategy I have been working on with your children in the classroom.  

Decoding Strategies

COMPREHENSION 

Along with reading with your child at home, asking questions will also help them better understand what they have read. Below are some examples of questions you can ask your child before you begin reading, during the reading, and after you have read the text. 

Before, During & After Reading Questions

MATH AT HOME ASSISTANCE

For math, a foundation of number sense and fact fluency is very important. Below are some ideas and links to other pages to help with these skills. 

NUMBER SENSE

Number sense is defined as a person's ability to use and understand numbers:

· knowing their relative values,
· how to use them to make judgments,
· how to use them in flexible ways when adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing
· how to develop useful strategies when counting, measuring or estimating.

Here are is a blog that has some at home activities you can do to help build this important skill. 

Fun Ways to Build Number Sense at Home

FACT FLUENCY

Fact fluency is defined as the ability to recall the basic facts in all four operations accurately, quickly and effortlessly. 

Many of the websites on Clever help with this skill, but here is a list of some other ideas and websites. 

Math Fact Information