1. HOW TO RAISE A STAR READER
Equipping your child with the skills to become a life-long reader
Merrol Moore, Holcomb Bridge Middle School

2. HOW CAN YOU FIND OUT YOUR CHILD’S READING LEVEL?
With This Information:
Child’s Name, Grade Level
Reading/Language Arts Teacher’s Name
Merrol Moore
YOU WILL RECEIVE…
A full diagnostic report detailing your child’s reading strength and weakness.

3. How can I help my struggling reader?

4. WHAT IS A STRUGGLING READER?
A struggling reader is a child who is reading below their grade level or reading on grade-level but having trouble with comprehension.
They have trouble analyzing information, defining vocabulary words or using comprehension strategies.

5. HOW ARE WE IDENTIFYING STRUGGLING READERS?
Holcomb Bridge administers a standardized test for the assessment of reading to each student to help determine their reading level.
Teacher assessment.

6. SO, YOU HAVE A STRUGGLING READER. WHAT’S NEXT?!

7. FIRST Picture your home. Close your eyes.
Where are the books? Where are the magazines?
Or is everything electronic?
THERE SHOULD BE BOOKS OR MAGAZINES. GO TO THE LIBRARY
(Our local library: East Roswell Branch)

8. Join Them! Seeing is believing!
SECOND
Join Them! Seeing is believing!
Read with your children.
Children who see their parents reading are more likely to develop good reading habits.

9. HOW DO I GET A CHILD WHO IS READING, TO THE NEXT LEVEL?

10. MAKE WORDS COME ALIVE Turn on the closed captioning on your TV.
Print the lyrics to their favorite songs.
Use the “Make a Connection” reading strategy to help with comprehension.

11. BUILD THE DESIRE FOR TEXT
Buy the comic books they love.
Bring attention to the novels the latest movies are based on.
Create a game night with games like Scrabble, Boggle.
MAKE IT FUN!!

12. HOW DO I GET AN ADVANCED READER COLLEGE READY?

13. USE MOVIES TO INTRODUCE YOUR CHILD TO CLASSICS
East of Eden
MacBeth
Romeo & Juliet
Jane Eyre
Pride & Prejudice
Of Mice & Men
War & Peace
Crime & Punishment
Oliver Twist

14. BE FAMILIAR WITH BIBLE STORIES
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom
Steinbeck’s East of Eden
Dickens’ Great Expectations
According to The New York Times, the Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within it’s influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know.
The New York Times, 2011, “The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible”

15. HELPFUL WEBSITES FOR PARENTS
PBS KIDS
Scholastic.com
ReadingRockets.org
AtoZTeacherStuff.com
ReadingOnline.org
GoPhonics.com
ReadingResources.net