When helping your child read at home, several strategies may be used to help figure out the challenging words
Tell your child to look at the picture. You may tell the child the word is something that can be seen in the picture, if that is the case.
Chunking
Tell your child to look for chunks in the word, such as it in sit, at in cat, or and and ing in standing.
Popper
Ask your child to get his/her mouth ready to say the word by shaping the mouth for the beginning letter. (Sometimes the word might just pop out of your mouth!)
Look at the word parts
Ask your child if the word looks like another word he/she already knows. For example: does bed look like red?
Skip and go back
Ask your child to go on and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the other words in context, a child can figure out the unknown word.
Questions
If your child says the wrong word while reading, ask questions like:
Does it make sense?
Does it look right?
Does it sound right?
