To all those celebrating Eid this weekend, I wish your families peace, health and happiness.

It is fun to predict what a text is going to be about before we read it! When we predict we take the information we already know and combine it with the text. Make a prediction using the sentence frame:

I think the story will be about____________because______________.

Now, look at the title: The Case of The Missing Carrot Cake and predict what it’s going to be about. Remember the word case means file.

Reading strategies to help parents at home

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Research shows that children need to talk about there learning in order to understand it. Here are five opening discussion questions that you can use with almost any reading that will help turn kids’ brains on, get them thinking, and encourage them to read:

What was this reading about?
What was the title?  
Why do you think the author chose that title?
How does what you read relate to you?
What do you think the author wanted you to take away from this reading?  Why?
What strategies did you use while reading?  
How well did they work?  
Which ones will you use next time?

It’s possible to encourage kids to read even more by using elaboration questions.  These questions encourage them to go deeper with more details about the book.  Here are some example question-stems that will work with almost any reading:

Can you tell me more about that?
What would you compare that with?
Why do you think that?  
Have you thought about…?
Where did you find that information?