How to read with a beginning reader

• Complete a picture walk BEFORE reading.
• Predict what may happen in the book.
• Model and encourage your child to track print.
• Read a word or sentence and have your child repeat it.
• Take turns reading each page.
• Talk about the story as you read.  What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of?
• Read the story again!  Repeated readings build fluency and confidence!