• Play word games that build word recognition and vocabulary skills - Scrabble, UpWords, Spot It!, Pictionary, Scattergories (to give you some ideas).
• Talk about word meanings, and point out interesting or new words when reading together. 
• Ask questions before, during, and after reading aloud. This can help your child focus attention on the ideas in the story. 
• Before reading, look at the book cover and talk about what might happen in the story (predicting) and discuss prior knowledge that might help them understand this new text (activating prior knowledge). During reading, ask what questions he has about the story (questionning). After reading, talk about what happened (recount, evaluate, summarise).  

Ask your child to summarise the story and relate it to what he/she already knows or has experienced (making connections).