Developing child's
comprehension skills, means kids being able to fully understand and follow
information they are listening to and watching. Being a parent it is our
concern to help kids develop their skill. So that they understand what they
read, view or hear.
This becomes tough job specially for
working parents. From my experience I can say, parents should start instilling
this skill in their kids at an early age. We all want our kid to be smart,
intelligent and outperformer. In short we want them to be genius. Had we ever
asked from ourselves, what special are we doing to help them to acquire these
distinct qualities?
I started working
on this, when my child was of 2 years. I tell him story when we go to sleep
daily. Kids listen to it very carefully. After all, which child doesn’t like to
listen to story? Sometime I read story with him. Then I ask him questions based
on story such as main idea of the story, moral of the story, about different
characters etc. He also took interest in this. Active participation makes this
activity enjoyable for both of us. This technique developed not only one skill
but many. This has sharpened his listening skill, vocabulary, comprehending
skill and thinking skill.
I still practice this
small exercise, but in various form. Now he is of 8 yes and have developed
habit of reading, ask many questions, and express his ideas brilliantly.
I recently found a
website http://educationwithfun.com . We can find stories as well as question related to it. It can be downloaded
for offline practice. To develop deeper understanding a child should be able to
highlight, summarize, and review important ideas and for this good practice is
required.
