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Read MorePractice Reading Skills with Picture Books
Reading high-quality picture books is an amazing way to engage children with reading comprehension skills. These reading comprehension skills are important for children to understand the text that they are reading and to think critically about the information in the text. In addition, reading inspiring picture books to children helps them to expand their knowledge, understand concepts and big ideas, instill a love of reading, and help them to gain more knowledge. By engaging children in interesting picture books as a child, creates a person who reads, analyzes, and reflects. “Reading aloud to young children is not only one of the best activities to stimulate language and cognitive skills; it also builds motivation, curiosity, and memory” Reading.
Reading skills that can be used along these engaging picture books are:
- P – Prediction
- S – Summarising
- Syn – Synthesising
- C – Making Connections
- I – Inferring
- A – Analysing
- Crit – Critiquing
- F/Exp – Fluency and Expression
Click on the link to match the reading comprehension skill with the perfect picture book:
The Importance of Read Alouds Links:
- https://www.readaloud.org/index.html
- https://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-aloud-build-comprehension
- https://smartreading.org/importance-of-reading-aloud/
- https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/why-every-class-needs-read-alouds
Reading Skills Links:
- https://www.planetspark.in/blogs/types-of-reading-skills
- https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/reading-comprehension-skills-english-language-learners
- https://education.nsw.gov.au/parents-and-carers/learning/english/english-a-to-z-support-pages/reading-comprehension-skills
- https://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/comprehension
Reading Skills Book Lists
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