Tips To Help Build Reading Comprehension Faster
For actual learning of words and their meanings to happen these tips should be done daily. These steps can help build reading, understating words, images and language skills, not just memorizing.
1. Talk, Talk And Talk Together
Talking to your toddler daily about things can help them be exposed to many new languages. They can hear and identify sounds which then can motivate them to try repeating what they heard. Most toddlers have much to say and can get frustrated when others do not understand them. Parents can model pronunciations and create conversations about anything, such as asking questions, labelling things, pointing out objects, and reading books with their children. Reading books daily is one of the best ways to motivate your child to try saying words as they point at pictures. Please give pauses so that your child can repeat words. Find some way to engage with your toddler throughout their days verbally; this can be small conversations, sweet comments, simple questions, or singing with them.
Please find out more about your child by talking with them
Ask your child what they are doing within the day.
Ask your child what they want to eat for breakfast.
Identify something that your child is wearing.
Ask your child how they are feeling.
Go on a walk with your child and talk about things.
Ask your child about their choice of things.
Ask your child about their toys.
2. Independent Time To Look At Books
Toddlers with confident parents, parents who try new things and are open to hearing different thoughts, usually grow into more independent and open-minded children. Independence is essential for a toddler. It can help them feel a sense of control and have order and autonomy within their daily lives. One easy way to foster building autonomy is by providing time for your toddler to look at books independently.
Give your toddler a chance to
Look at the images within books.
Make comments about what they see.
See pictures of people that don’t look like them.
Practice saying words and sounds aloud.
Turn the pages within the book.
Hold books.
Partake in pretend self-reading and self-talking.
Show and point out things that they see.
Ask questions about things they see.
Compare and draw contrasts.
Challenge preexisting thoughts and ideas.
Make connections to their existing world.
3. Space For Reading Aloud
Also, give some time for your child to practice and mimic making sounds, words, and expressions. Looking at books independently can encourage your child to read aloud, makeup words, self-talk, form sounds, practice language, and build joy for reading.
Encourage your child to look at books each day by putting books in all the rooms within the home.
Please encourage your child to tell and make up their own stories.
Do puppet play with your child.
Please encourage your child to retell stories by asking them questions.
Encourage your child to test out things from books through Dramatic playing.
4. Time For Joint Reading
After your child has independently read or looked at a book, see if they want to re-read the story with you. As you re-read the book, use the correct language, read slowly, add some of your child’s expressions and take pauses. It has been found that 1 children who are given more opportunities to listen and respond to stories, songs, poems, and rhymes become motivated to learn what the words in print mean (2019).
5. Have Collaborative Book Talks
Talk about the story and pictures with your child at the end and during book reading. Point out things about the characters, and images, ask your child their thoughts and ask questions. Adding a tangible object, such as a stuffed animal, can help prolong interest and understanding for younger toddlers. For example, when reading the book Lima, Lima Red Pajamas, have a Lima stuffed animal and talk about where the animal comes from.
Extra tips
Have a home library accessible for your child to get and choose books.
Please encourage your child to look at books daily by having them available within the home at their level.
Create a comfortable spot within the home with oversized pillows, blankets, puppets, stuffed animals, or a tent to encourage reading.
Don’t use book reading as a punishment but view and present it as enjoyable.
All books provided should have bold, coloured, and realistic pictures.
Model reading books such as reading a book or newspaper, not always on your tablet or phone.
Add felt boards, puppets, songs, large books, homemade albums, and audiobooks.
Have books with a lot of repetition, rhymes, and songs to help stimulate language.
Have a few books with characters that have realistic features, like your child.
Have books with characters and cultures that are different from your child.
Provide paper and markers for your child to draw things from stories.
Choose books at your child’s reading level, not where they are supposed to be developmentally.
Choose some books about things that your child has an interest in so that it will help spark their interest.
Have attractively looking books with bold images.
The Full-Day Kindergarten Program. Ontario. 2019.