Learning Together is an Institut des troubles d’apprentissage initiative to help your child overcome difficulties in French and math. Discover our activities designed to help you support them as they develop their literacy and numeracy skills!
This sequence contains 18 activities designed to help your child develop these strategies. Throughout the sequence, we have provided either an informative text or a story to facilitate understanding (in French) of the strategy to be modelled. You will find them in the appendix.
These 18 activities are designed to fit easily into your family routine and to be done in order. They were created specifically to help children with learning disabilities, but all children can benefit from them!
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The purpose of this first activity is to teach your child to skim a text before reading it. Skimming eases them into the reading process by helping them get a general idea of the text before diving in.
This second strategy encourages your child to draw on their prior knowledge after skimming the text. By identifying what they already know about the subject, your child can make connections between their existing knowledge and the new information, which will improve their reading comprehension.
In this activity, your child plans their reading based on the organization and structure of the text. This strategy can be used during and after reading to help your child identify and remember information.
This final activity teaches your child to decode words by focusing on their shape. This simple tool helps them recognize and understand words by examining their structure.
The purpose of this activity is to help your child use the clues in a sentence to identify words and their meaning and check their understanding. This allows them to draw connections between words they understand orally and their written form.
When your child uses context clues to anticipate the meaning of unfamiliar words, it enhances their reading comprehension. In this activity, your child learns how anticipating the meaning of new words can help them get a general idea of a text.
Following activities 4 to 6, which explore how to correctly read words and anticipate their meaning, this worksheet focuses on interpreting punctuation marks, which is essential for understanding a paragraph or text as a whole.
This activity is designed to show your child how graphic elements such as headings, subheadings, bold or italicized words, and tables and graphs can help them identify the main ideas in a text.
This activity marks the halfway point of the sequence! It covers how to identify the main ideas in order to grasp the gist of a text. This strategy improves not only reading comprehension, but also the ability to synthesize and develop a mental picture of the material.
This activity invites your child to draw a diagram to visualize the relationships between ideas, which makes it easier to understand a text.
Getting into the habit of asking questions when they read allows your child to make connections with what they already know and to adjust their understanding accordingly.
Often used to avoid repetition, substitution words stand in for pronouns or groups of words previously mentioned in the text. Knowing what or whom these words refer to helps your child clarify and reinforce their overall understanding of the text.
Identifying words that connect ideas helps your child better understand the logic of a text. By getting familiar with these now, they’ll find it easier to develop their reading comprehension.
Being able to deduce the meaning of new words from similar words in the same family is essential to understanding a text. Encountering and deciphering the meaning of unfamiliar words not only enriches your child’s vocabulary, but also improves their ability to understand the texts they read.
This 15th activity helps your child make inferences—that is, read between the lines. By drawing on clues from the text and their own knowledge, they will learn to infer information that is not explicitly stated.
While there are many strategies for supporting comprehension during reading, recall helps assess what information your child has retained and understood after reading.
This activity helps your child react to what they have read. By expressing their ideas, emotions, and opinions, and then connecting them to their own experiences, they will develop a more active and thoughtful approach to reading.
Well done! You’ve made it to the final activity! This activity asks your child to share their thoughts on what they’ve read and connect it to their own experiences. This reflection will help them engage with their reading at a deeper level and develop a more personal understanding of the text.
This sequence is part of a collection of tools and resources to help your child develop reading, writing, and math skills.
Check out our featured topic Learning Together to explore our entire collection of activities!
