Reading with ALL students:

 Read at home with your child at least 20 minutes every day with books they enjoy.   EPIC Books and Moby Max contain web based books for students to read online.  To access, students will use their credentials and log into CLEVER from the website http  s://dearbornschools.org/resources/students.Online books are available from the Dearborn Library for (Elementary Students) and  (Pre-school) children using your library card information. 

Before reading:

• You may read to your child a text before he or she reads it.  
• Have your child make predictions about what might happen next.  
• Have your child use picture clues from the cover to predict what the book is about.   

During reading:

• Read out loud to your child.
• Listen to your child read.
• Echo read (you read a line and then have your child repeat the line).
• Read together at the same time (choral reading).
• Reread or retell favorite stories.
• Talk to your son or daughter about what they are reading.
• Talk about how the pictures in the book connect to the words on the page.

After reading, you may:

• Ask “What do you remember from the text?”
•  Ask questions about the reading (who, what, when, where, why).
• Have your child talk about his or her favorite parts of the story and why.
• Ask “What have you learned from the text?”
• Ask “Who was in the book and what did this character do in the story?”
• Connect the story to your child’s life or to other books you and your child have read together.