Sep 15, 2026 · 48 min · 13 segments
Kristin Cetone, Reading Specialist, educator, author, and founder of Nuts About Reading, joins us to talk about helping children become confident, capable readers.From understanding your child's…
Well, the purpose for reading is comprehension, understanding, opinion, predicting, summarizing, all of this that's involved in comprehension.
why else would you read? If you don't want to remember or understand what you read.
So these three workbooks are activities for comprehension, specifically aligned with Buckaroo Buckeye.
That's what all of these other floors work together to comprehend and remember.
why a building? Why did you select a building as your visual icon for reading? That's a good
You have to build each floor to get to the top floor, which is comprehension.
It's a building that you have to build and you have to have all of those floors functioning well in order to fully comprehend what you're reading.
So what if my kiddo was having issues with sight words? Which floor does that fall into and would that cause any issues?
Well, it would cause a lot of issues because the majority of the words that we read are sight words.
And since that's the most of what we read, if you know those words by sight, you're gonna be able to keep your rate of reading moving.
Well, the purpose for reading is comprehension, understanding, opinion, predicting, summarizing, all of this that's involved in comprehension.
why else would you read? If you don't want to remember or understand what you read.
So these three workbooks are activities for comprehension, specifically aligned with Buckaroo Buckeye.
That's what all of these other floors work together to comprehend and remember.
why a building? Why did you select a building as your visual icon for reading? That's a good
You have to build each floor to get to the top floor, which is comprehension.
It's a building that you have to build and you have to have all of those floors functioning well in order to fully comprehend what you're reading.
So what if my kiddo was having issues with sight words? Which floor does that fall into and would that cause any issues?
Well, it would cause a lot of issues because the majority of the words that we read are sight words.
And since that's the most of what we read, if you know those words by sight, you're gonna be able to keep your rate of reading moving.
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