Transcript Tips for Parents:

Tips for Parents:
How to be a strong, positive
influence for your young reader.
By Kori Mangold
Appreciate the Written Word
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Read to your child each day.
“Lap time” fosters a love of reading.
Make books available to your child.
Be a reader yourself. Show how reading is
part of your everyday life.
Develop Awareness of Printed
Language
• While reading together let your child turn
the pages.
• Point to words when you read.
• Invite your child to join in on repetitive
phrases.
• Point out words and letters you see often.
• Look for environmental print (like the
McDonald’s sign).
Learn the Alphabet
• Sing the Alphabet with your child.
• Start by teaching the first letter in their
name.
• Ask them the first letter of familiar names.
“What does Mommy begin with?” “What
else starts like Mommy?”
• Help your child write letters in their name.
Letters and Words are Related
• Teach your child to spell a few special
words.
• Draw attention to these words, and
challenge your child to read them every
time they see them.
• Play word building games with letters and
words they already know.
• Build on what they know.
Language is Made of Words,
Syllables and Phonemes
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Phonemes are individual sounds.
Sing songs and rhymes with your child.
Play the name game. “Anna, Anna, Bo Banna!”
Look at chunks of words. “What would cat sound
like without the C sound?” “What is another word
that would rhyme with cat?” (bat, hat, fat, etc.)
• What would “cupcake” sound like without “cup”?
• What would “Tuesday” sound like without
“Tues”?
Learn Letter Sounds
• Sound out letters with your child.
• Point out words that start with the first letter
in their name.
• Again, build on sounds they know. If they
can spell “like”, ask how they would spell
“bike” or “hike”.
• Dr. Seuss books, and other rhyming books
help teach letter sounds.
Sound out Words
• Point out new words. Make the sound of each letter, and
then blend the sounds together to make the entire word.
• If too many words in any given book require your child
to sound out, the book is too difficult for them to read on
their own.
• While writing, encourage your child to spell by
stretching out each sound in the word, and writing the
sounds down. Temporary spellings are ok, if the letters
they write match the sounds in the words.
Make Reading Fun!
• Help your child read easy and enjoyable stories
often, so they can experience success.
• Sit together, take turns reading, and talk about
the events in the book.
• At the end of the book revisit the difficult
words.
• Rereading those old favorites is very beneficial
to your child!
Know Spelling Patterns
• Begin to focus on chunks of words, and not
just individual letters.
• Point out similarities between words, and
build on words they already know. If they
can spell will, ask them to try hill, pill, etc.
• This is a good time to begin pointing out
correct spellings of words they still do not
know.
Learn to Read Reflectively
• When reading with or to your child stop and talk about the
characters, events, problems, and how the problems may
be solved.
• Make predictions of what will happen next, and CHECK to
see if your predictions were right.
• Talk about how the story relates to their life. Do they
know a character like the one in the book? Have they had
the same problem as the one discussed in the story?
• Share opinions of events in the books.
• Review what has happened as you read.
Finally:
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Read
Read
Re-read!
Please call upon Mrs. Walter-Ness,
Mrs. Mangold, or Mrs. Steinbach our
reading teachers, with any concerns or
questions regarding your child’s reading.
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Useful websites for parents
• www.rif.org Celebrating the joy of reading
for over 40 years.
• www.starfall.com Where children have fun
learning to read!
• www.planetesme.com A wonderful world
of children’s literature.
• http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow More
great reading.
If you Read to Me, I’ll Read to You!