You can join in, too, and make a sketch of your favorite part. Your child might also enjoy making a diorama of the story. We welcome your child to bring any pictures or diorama from a story to school to share with the class. If pauses between words are too long, it is difficult for the child to hold the meaning of the sentence together. At first your child may read just a split second behind you or echo your words which is okay.
Successful readers use all three strategies together to predict words.
Hearing you read the words can help your child think what word is likely to come next. This is when your child is predicting words using the sounds that the beginning, middle and ending letters can make. Remind your child that several letters might make a sound together and that several letters together even may make several different sounds. Encourage your child to try different reasonable possibilities for letter sounds until the combination of sounds come together to make a familiar word that makes sense for that part of the sentence and for the story. Also remind your child that some letters are silent.