 Reading Strategies 
When
helping your child read at home, several
strategies may be used to aid in decoding unknown
words.
1.
Tell the child to look at the picture. You may
tell the child the word is something that can be
seen in the picture, if this applies to the text
being read.
2.
Tell the child to look for chunks in the word,
such as it
in sit, or at
in mat, or and
and ing
in standing.
3.
Ask the child to get his/her mouth ready to say
the word by shaping the mouth for the beginning
letter.
4.
Ask the child if the word looks like another word
he/she knows. Does cook
look like book?,
for example.
5.
Ask the child to go on and read to the end of the
sentence. Often by reading the other words in
context, the child can figure out the unknown
word.
6.
If the child says the wrong word while reading,
ask questions like: Does it
make sense? Does
it sound right? Does
it look right?
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