Improve Your Reading At Home

Practice makes you better, whether it’s playing a sport or reading.

• Read along while listening to an audio book
• Read a magazine on something you enjoy (sports, fashion)
• Read and follow a recipe
• Read directions for a hobby project
• Read a book of poetry
• Read a picture book to a younger sibling
• Read a book on a subject that you enjoy

 

Use reading strategies while you read.

• Read a minimum of 20 minutes daily
• Slow down and think about what you are reading
• Reread what you do not understand
• Visualize what is happening while you read
• Look for context clues for a word you do not know
• Summarize what you read to someone

 

Check out these educational websites to help improve language skills!

http://www.freericecom

http://www.madglibs.com/

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/fishemup2_eng_launcher.html

http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/cleanup_eng_launcher.html

http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/athens_games/gameGreekToMe.htm 

http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html

http://www.vocabulary.co.il/prefixes/

Puzzles help build thinking skills.

• Crosswords
• Jigsaw
• Soduku
  
  Games increase vocabulary, logic skills and background knowledge.
  
• Apples to Apples
• Blurt
• Boggle
• Bananagrams
• Charades
• Outburst
• Scrabble / Scrabble Jr.