How to Develop Critical Reading Skills 

• Select books of an appropriate reading level that interest your child.
• Encourage your child to read aloud. Reading aloud will help the child to hear mistakes and learn how to develop meaningful reading rhythm.
• Stop after each paragraph and discuss what it means. This will encourage the child to think about the content.
• Ask questions that are not straight from text and require your child to use clues from the story to draw conclusions and make predictions.
• Point out unfamiliar words. Help your child use context clues to try and find the meaning. Reading often helps to increase vocabulary.
• Help your child make connections between what happens in a story and things that have happened in real life. It helps to connect.
• Read often. The more you read with your child, the more he/she will get used to it and develop critical reading skills.