Parents 35 Reading Night

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Parents 3-5 Reading Night

• Welcome
• Meet and Greet
• Get some treats!

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Meet the Reading Specialists

• Paula Bischoffer
• Taught 1st and 2nd grades for 20 years prior to
  teaching reading
• Masters in Reading
• Works with K-5th graders in reading this year

• Anne Bucy
• Taught K-2nd grades for 13 years prior to
  teaching reading
• Masters in Reading
• Works with K-5th graders in reading this year

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Assessments used at 3-5

• Assessment We assess using AIMSweb to determine
  where each individual child is functioning
  compared to children nationwide as well as in our
  own district and school. We do benchmark tests
  three times per year and monitor progress with
  students who are at risk in any area.
• MAPs (Measures of Academic Progress) in reading
  to measure academic growth and provides us with
  insights into your childs strengths and
  weaknesses. A Lexile range is also linked to the
  MAP RIT score, which measures reading
  comprehension. The Lexile score represents the
  level of text that a student can successfully
  read with 75 comprehension. By using the Lexile
  score, teachers and parents are able to find
  book, periodicals, and other reading materials
  that will be appropriately challenging for each
  student.

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Reading Components

• Word Study
• Breaking the word up and using multi-syllabic
  word strategies

• Meaning/Vocabulary
• -What does it mean?

• Fluency
• -Rate-Number of words read correctly in 1
  minute.
• -Accuracy-Words read correctly in a reading.

• Comprehension
• -Understanding the authors message/
• meaning of text

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Word Study

• Encourage children to break a multi-syllabic word
  into chunks/syllables
• Review syllable division patterns (VClCV, VlCV,
  VClV, VlV)
• Look for vowel combinations and think of other
  words that have that same combination
• Study and work on prefixes and suffixes
• Memorize words that dont follow the rules of
  spelling-sight words

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Fluency

• Read aloud to children everyday and model what
  fluent expressive reading sounds like.
• Encourage children to reread favorite books to
  improve fluency.
• Listen to children read everyday, giving them
  support when they really get stuck. Patience and
  a lot of praise/encouragement are the key to
  success.
• Help children to choose books that are at their
  level, so that they dont become overwhelmed and
  frustrated.
• Buddy reading allows older children to read to
  younger ones.
• Books on tape enable children to listen to
  stories and follow along in the book.
• Choral reading helps develop fluency by letting
  the children read aloud with the adult.
• During echo reading, the adult reads a sentence,
  paragraph, or page aloud and then the children
  reread that piece.
• Nursery rhymes, poems, songs, and speeches are
  great for performing and fun for children.
• Children need to build their sight word
  knowledge in order to recognize words quickly
  when reading.

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Meaning/Vocabulary

• Encourage children to tell about a new word they
  learned everyday.
• Have children use post-it notes to mark words in
  the text that theyre unsure of and then go back
  after reading to clarify those words and look
  them up in the dictionary.
• Encourage children to clarify the meaning of a
  word by using picture clues.
• Children can be helped to clarify an unfamiliar
  word by reading to the end of the sentence or
  paragraph and then thinking about what the word
  could mean.
• Rereading a sentence or paragraph helps children
  gain an understanding of unfamiliar words.
• Clarifying the content of what has been read can
  help children zoom in on the unfamiliar word.
• Break a multi-syllabic word into chunks/syllables
  and then think about the meaning of the root word.

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Comprehension

• Encourage your kids to use these reading
  strategies as theyre reading their novels/texts.
• Making Connections
• Making Predictions
• Questioning
• Visualizing
• Inferring
• Determining Importance
• Summarizing Synthesizing
• Using your inner voice
• Its a great idea to have them record their
  strategies on post its and stick it on the page
  where they made that connection, inference, etc.
  This way they are actively recording their
  thinking and have an ongoing record.

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The Power of Books..Read Alouds are STILL
encouraged

• Regular family conversations will take care of
  the basic vocabulary (common lexicon), but when
  you read to the child you leap into the rare
  words that help the most when it's time for
  school and formal learning. Simultaneously,
  you're familiarizing the child with books and
  print in a manner that brings him or her
  pleasure.

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Mr. Trelease addresses the often repeated, I
just dont have time.

• To easily put the lie to the time myth, count
  the number of video stores you pass in one day,
  then count the number of channels on your TV, and
  finally count the number of cars in your local
  mall at 730 in the evening. If Americans were
  out of time, the video stores would be in
  bankruptcy court, you'd have only 10 TV channels
  (one set to a house), and the mall parking lot
  would be three-quarters empty.

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We have time for what we value.

• The people who found the time to read to a
  child and to themselves yesterday had the same 24
  hours as the person who had no time to read, but
  did watch their favorite team on TV or the
  afternoon soap they taped, did find the time to
  talk on the phone for 35 minutes, and did find
  the time to run over the mall for a minute.

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Youre doing the right things!

• Read aloud to your child
• Read with your child
• Be a good role model of reading
• Support your childrens reading
• Use words of praise
• Read to your children, even as babies. It is an
  important part of childrearing. We pass on the
  love of reading
• Joan Lunden, National Center for Family Literacy

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Thank you!

• Thank you for coming and being invested in your
  childs reading
• Please take a look at the information in the
  packet to continue to help you at home
• ANY QUESTIONS or COMMENTS?