Reading Tips for Parents of Third Graders By: Reading Rockets

This article gives some specific guidelines on how to keep your child interested in reading and how to help develop your child's reading comprehension. For example, the article says to make reading into a special time. Taking your children to the library can help them think of it as a special and fun time to spend with parents. The article also states that you should help your child use a dictionary to look up unknown or unfamiliar words. They also recommend introducing your child to all sorts of genres of writing so that they can explore all the options of reading. They even suggest using car rides as time for word play games, like explaining how "jam" can mean something you put on toast, or when there is a lot of traffic.