Reading Skills

Explore practical ways to help your child understand what they read. Each guide explains a skill, offers activities to try together, and suggests books for practice.

Choose a skill

Not sure where to start? Inference & Text Evidence is a great first skill for any reader.

Inference & Text Evidence Reading between the lines, then finding the page that proves it.
Character Development How characters grow and change, and what causes it.
Main Idea & Theme What the story is really about, and the lesson it leaves.
Point of View Who is telling the story, and how that shapes what we see.
Compare & Contrast Noticing how characters, places and events are alike and different.
Vocabulary & Writing Prompts Word lists and writing ideas to go with the book.