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Evamere Literacy Night
2014
Introduction to Literacy
• Reading is developmental
• Primary purpose of reading is to acquire meaning
• Writing is developmental
• Primary purpose of writing is to convey meaning
• We read and write for a variety of purposes
• Both fiction and non-fiction
First graders need to develop
a love of reading and writing!
Literacy Expectations
• Increased amount of time writing across
curriculum
• Connect reading and writing
• Authentic and Meaningful purposes
• Increase in the amount of non-fiction
Evamere Library
Joanne Meszaros
Library website:
http://www.hudson.k12.oh.us/domain/795
INFOhio username: hudson
password: exp
First Grade Reading
Assessments
• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills
(DIBELS)
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Letter Naming Fluency
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Nonsense Word Fluency
Oral Reading Fluency
• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)
• Accuracy and Comprehension
• Fry Word List – sight words
• How we use this information
Balanced literacy in the
classroom
• Word wall
• Word Study
• Big books and literature
sets
• Poetry notebook
• Anchor Charts
• Responding to reading
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Writing Workshop
Guided Reading
Partner Reading
Read Aloud
Shared Reading
Reading Intervention
Readers’ Theatre
Writing Workshop/Reading
Workshop
• Writing!
• Genres:
– Narrative
– Informative
– Opinion
• Conferences with
the teacher and
other students
• Reading!
• Daily 5 –
Independent and
partner reading
activities
• Conferences and
small groups with
the teacher
Cueing System
• Meaning Cues
– What makes sense?
– Look at the picture
• Structure
– Does it sound right?
• Visual
– Phonics, letter sounds
Reading Strategies
• Using the cueing strategies to predict text
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Look at the picture
Say the first sound or get your mouth ready
Read ahead to attend to meaning
Break apart or look for a known part of the word
• Self-monitoring
• Recognizing when reading does not sound right, look
right, or make sense
• Self-correcting
• Cross checking
• Integrating 2 or 3 cues to solve “tricky part”
Fluency
• Accuracy
• Speed - appropriate rate
• Expression and phrasing
• The point of fluency is that it leads to
comprehension!
Comprehension Strategies
• Proficient readers use 8 main comprehension
strategies while reading
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Make connections
Visualize
Ask questions
Infer
Determine importance in non-fiction
Synthesize
Monitor Understanding
Use fix-up strategies
Vocabulary
• Aids in comprehension
• Taught both explicitly in content areas non-
fiction and acquired through inferring words in
text
• This should be fun
– Gather and collect words through home
experiences to use in literacy
READ at home
• Listen to your child read
• Read to your child
• Read together
– Echo and Paired Reading
• Retell stories and talk about books
• Work with words-Fry word Phrases
WRITE at home
• Keep a journal or write notes
• Have supplies handy for making books
or writing stories
• Help your child stretch sounds
• Phonetic spelling is okay! Help them
look for patterns
• Tell/write stories and non-fiction with
details and using rich vocabulary
READ! WRITE!
• Model reading
• Read and write for practical purposes
• Create a positive reading and writing
environment in your home
• Have fun!