Do At Home Reading 3rd and 4th Grades
Comprehension |
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Day 1 Read a story with your child. Make a Venn Diagram and compare the setting of the story with where you live. |
Day 2 Find a picture book you and your child have not read before. Look at the cover and pictures inside. Make predictions about the story. Read the story with your child. Were your predictions accurate? |
Day 3 With the same picture book used on day 2, have your child write a two sentence summary of the beginning, middle, and end. Illustrate each part. |
Day 4 Read a story with your child. Have your child tell you what the story was about on a piece of paper by drawing a picture of their favorite part of the story and then writing a few sentences telling the main idea. |
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Day 5 Read a book with your child and then have them choose their favorite character. Have them do a comparison of that character with a person they know in real life. |
Day 6 After reading several stories in a week, have your child do a comparison of two settings from the stories. Tell how they are alike and different. |
Day 7 Read a story with your child. When you are finished help them find five things in the story that could be facts and five things that are someone's opinion. |
Day 8 Read a chapter in your favorite book, or have a family member read it to you. Draw a picture of the setting, characters, and the problem, if there is one. |
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Day 9 Read to a family member for 20 minutes. At the end of each page, stop and tell your family member what you just read. (This helps you with understanding what you are reading. Good readers do this all the while they are reading.) |
Day 10 After you have finished reading 20 minutes today, write or tell a family member all the details of the story you can remember - in order! |
Day 11 Read a picture book to a family member. When finished, summarize the beginning, middle, and end of the story story for him/her. Keep it general. |
Day 12 Pick a story you like, practice reading this, then tape record your reading. How does it sound? Did you use expression? How about reading smoothly? Who might like listening to this? Now tape it again making one change in the way you read it. |
Bonus Activity:
Choose a story you have never read. Before you start the story, predict to a family member what you think the story will be about. Look at the pictures, read the titles, look at the cover. Now read the story. When finished think back on your predictions. Which were right? Good readers predict and think about what they are going to read before they read. This gets you brain ready for the story.