Kindergarten, Here I come

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Kindergarten, Here I come!
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How can reading aloud be so effective?

• Condition the childs brain to associate reading
  with pleasure.
• Create background knowledge
• Build vocabulary
• Provide a reading role model.

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When an adult reads to a child, three important
things happen

• Pleasure has been associated between child and
  book. (and child and parent)
• The child and parent are learning something from
  the book that they are sharing.
• The adult is pouring sounds and syllables called
  words into the childs ear
• Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook

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Will my child learn to read and write in
kindergarten?

• Current research shows that children use
  important reading and writing behaviors and
  strategies long before they can actually read
  everything on a page.

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How do pre-readers make sense out of text?

• Memorizing
• Reading pictures,
• Predicting
• Finding familiar words and letters
• guessing

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How can my child develop pre-reading skills?

• School
• Your child will be immersed in a literacy-rich
  environment in which the love of reading is key.

• Home
• Encourage a love of reading by sharing books
  with your child. Keep a special bookshelf or
  basket of books. Let your child see you as a
  reader!

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Just 15 minutes

• Reading aloud to your child only takes 15 minutes
  a day. Even on the busiest day, 15 minutes isnt
  too much to spare to give a child the gift of an
  active mind. Your child will treasure the time
  spent together. Read and talk with your
  child!!

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Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read,
read, read!
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• What can I do this summer to help my child
  prepare for Kindergarten?

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What to expect when my child is in Kindergarten

• We go to Church twice a week. Encourage your
  child to
• stand up straight,
• kneel correctly,
• pay attention to what is being said in the
  service.

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What to expect when my child is in Kindergarten

• Practice name writing in capital and lowercase
  letters.
• As your child is writing the letters tell him/her
  the letter sound to help make the connection
  between letter-sound knowledge.

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What to expect when my child is in Kindergarten

• Math
• Counting
• Sorting
• Patterning
• Writing numbers
• Simple addition and subtraction

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What to expect when my child is in Kindergarten

• Reading Readiness
• Identify letters and their sounds
• Identify beginning and ending sounds
• Begin to sound out words
• Everyone learns to read at their own pace.

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• Childhood
• Is not
• A
• Race
• But
• A Journey