Helping to Achieve Success

Some Ways to Help Your Child at Home

 

 

v Read aloud to your child. 

v Have your child read to you.

v Shared reading. You read a sentence. Your child reads a sentence.

v Obtain a library card for your child and check out a book.

v Measure objects and rooms in the house together.

v Subscribe to child-oriented magazines. Read them together.

v Create flash cards for your child’s particular needs: sight words, math facts, etc. Use flash cards in a variety of game activities.

v Have your child follow a recipe, measure ingredients and prepare a dish.

v Begin a story and have your child finish it.

v Have your child figure change from the grocery or department store.

v Encourage your child to write stories on a computer.

v Write notes to your child. Place them around the house-on the bed, on the door, on the mirror, in a lunchbox.

v Have your child write letters and thank-you notes to friends and relatives.