Guided Reading Level Books (A-Z)
Here are some websites to find books at your child's guided reading level:
1. Booksource.com
2. Scholastic Book Wizard
Be sure you are looking at the Guided Reading Level (GRL) System!
1. Booksource.com
2. Scholastic Book Wizard
Be sure you are looking at the Guided Reading Level (GRL) System!
Reading Strategies
Many parents are willing to help their child become better readers, but they aren't sure how to beyond saying, "Sound it out." Use the reading strategies to the right to help your child become more independent in decoding unfamiliar words. Reinforcing these same strategies at home will strengthen your child's reading skills. In class, we talk about how all of our animal friends work together. Therefore, you can always use more than one reading strategy to help you decode a tricky word. When your child comes to unknown or tricky word, encourage them to try these strategies in this order:
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Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is critically important to the development of reading skills. Here are some questions you can ask your child after they have read, in order to strengthen these skills. Questions are separated into two groups; fiction and non-fiction. These are the types of questions your child will be asked during reading assessments.
Fiction:
Non-fiction:
Fiction:
- How do you think __________ felt?
- What kind of a kid was __________?
- What was he/she like?
- What makes you think that?
- What lesson do you think the character learned?
- Do you think __________? Why or why not? *Be sure they provide answer using evidence from the text.
- How did __________’s feeling change? Why? How do you know?
- How did the author show you what a character was like/what kind of a person they were?
- What kind of person do you think __________ was? Why?
- Character traits are defined by the character’s actions, words, and how they look.
Non-fiction:
- What does this text feature tell you? *Some examples of non-fiction text features include bold printed words, captions, charts, comprehension checks, diagrams, figures, glossary words, graphs, headings, etc.
- Why do you think the author choose to include __________?
- What are some of the other ways the author gives you information besides the main text?
- What was the most important idea in this book?
- Why did the author write this book?
- Why do you think __________?
- Look at the photograph on page ___, what information does it give you?
- Look at the heading on page ___, what information does it give you?
- Can you show me some of the pages where… ?