How Do You Improve Childrens Comprehension Skills?
Comprehension is what reading is all about. A child’s academic success largely depends on it. The following article lists some helpful activities that will help your child improve their comprehension skills. Suggest your child draw a picture of something special that happened during the day. Write a sentence or two to explain the picture. Do this over several times and when several pages have been completed, staple them into a booklet for reading again and again. Creating their own booklet, will encourage them to read them and thus improve comprehension. Use simple riddles as games. For example, “What rhymes with bed and is a color?” or “What comes at the end of a day and rhymes with right?” Put newspapers, magazines, and grocery advertisements on a table. Ask your child to cut out: things found in a city, things they like to touch, to taste, to smell, things that have wheels, pets, and so on. Paste them into a scrapbook and label each one. At different times ask your child to read the
