Summary 7: Involving Parents in A Summer Book Program to Promote Reading Comprehension, Fluency and Vocabulary in Grade 3 and Grade 5 Children

Citation

Pagan, Stephanie & Senechal, Monique. (2014). Involving Parents in A Summer Book Program to Promote Reading Comprehension, Fluency and Vocabulary in Grade 3 and Grade 5 Children. Canadian Journal of Education 37:2. Canada: Carleton University.

Summary

In this article, the researchers use 8 weeks in summer. First, the researchers give the students who are in grade 3 and grade 5 a test to see their reading ability. After that, they are given some book related to their interests and their reading levels. Besides, they are monitored by their parents during the summer. The parents are trained to apply the six reading comprehension strategies like making predictions and connections, asking questions, rereading passages that cause difficulty, retelling, and summarizing. The result is that they get improvements in reading comprehension and also their vocabulary mastery.

Application

This parents-role monitoring maybe cannot easily implemented in my class because the Indonesian culture that parents maybe in their duties or maybe they are sill in an uneducated condition, but it is still possible that the parents may encourage their children to finish one book in a break period. Also, it is still possible to do any peer-reading between the students in school.