5 Strategies to Challenge Fluent Readers
It doesn’t matter if your child can fluently read by themselves, you still need to be reading with your child.
This probably isn’t a startling statement to you, however you may be missing a few strategies when it comes to reading with fluent readers. As homeschooling parents, we are often so caught up on making sure our children can read, we may forget to challenge them once we’ve completed this mission.
Those first few years of homeschooling we are constantly making sure we reading the decodable readers, working on the right sight words, and completing all of the phonics activities. Once these little learners are reading on their own it’s fine to let them leave the nest and begin reading all of those great children’s chapter books on their own. Right?
Creative Reading
After you and your child have selected an entertaining story with rich characters, challenge your child to write a short script for the book. Then spend a few days rehearsing and making props. Your child may even enjoy writing another chapter to be included in the book.
It’s an exciting time to see your child spread their wings and take off with their reading. Just be sure they come back to the nest now and then to keep their beautiful minds fully engaged in the reading process.
Wrong.
It is exciting to see our children enthusiastically reading Judy Bloom, Ronald Dahl, or any of the other popular children’s authors on their own. But one thing we want to do is to keep challenging our children in their reading skills. We want them to be active in their reading. But first, how do you know your child is a fluent reader? Here are some of the signs:
- Your child can read at an early age
- Your child may have taught themselves to read
- Your child requires less drill and kill methods
- Your child reads 3 to 4 times more than their peers
- Your child understands and uses advanced vocabulary
- Your child may begin to read abstract genres such as fantasy and nonfiction at an early age
I love the idea of the sticky notes! We will definitely be starting that. We also do mock versions of book reports.
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