Transcript Learning to Read - Florida Reading Assocaiton

Learning to Read
Reading to Learn
Presented by:
Gail Hannas
Parents and Reading
www.flreads.org
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
1. Help your children acquire
a wide-range of knowledge.
 Involving your children in
conversation about anything and
everything daily will give them
background knowledge.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
2. Talk with your children about
their experiences.
 This will help your children learn new
words and understand the process of
putting thoughts together. This will
also allow you to share your past
experiences with your child.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
3. Encourage your children to
think about events.
 Ask them to describe these
events. Share local and national
news, school news, movies, etc.
 Your values and views are
important to your children.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
4. Read aloud to your
children.
 Younger children love to hear
stories. Older children and adults
also value this experience. Share
tidbits that you want them to know
by reading small excerpts to them.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
5. Provide your children with writing
materials.
 Younger children like to write their own
stories. Be sure to have paper, pencils,
markers, crayons, and magnetic letters.
Special themed stationary is great for older
children. Journals can be completed by
families daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Start a
“My Life and Times” diary.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
6. Encourage your children to
watch TV programs that have
educational value.
 Watch shows with your children.
Discuss the shows. Watch movies
-read the books- and share
similarities and differences.
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
7. Monitor how much TV your
children watch.
 Research shows that watching up to 10
hours a week could be positive; however, the
more children watch TV, the less they read =
lower scores in performance on tests:
• 98%tile reading score read 1 hour daily
• 50%tile reading score read 5 mins. daily
• 20%tile reading score read less than 1 min.
daily
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
8. Monitor your children’s
school performance.
 Children tend to be more
successful readers when their
parents have an accurate view of
what their child is doing in school.
 (Checkpoint for progress in Reading and Writing for Families and
Communities - Developed by subgroup of America Reads Challenge:
Read*Write*Now)
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
9. Encourage your children to
read independently.
 One of your top priorities should
be to encourage your children to
spend more time reading - books,
magazines, newspapers
10 Ways to Help Your Children
Become Better Readers
10. Continue your personal
involvement in your child’s
growth as readers.
 Set a good example for your
children by reading. Establish
rules for reading activities.
Kindergarten -2nd Grade
 From Sunshine State Standards:
 Get better at reading and writing by speaking and
getting to know the alphabet, sounds, and words.
 They learn to develop vocabulary by listening to and
discussing stories that are read aloud and can
summarize stories by giving details of events
 Understand and follow simple directions
Kindergarten -2nd Grade
 Understand that print goes from left to right
 Know the letters and sounds of the alphabet
 Know simple words and begins to recognize
high frequency words by sight
 Start to read signs, food packages, everyday
items
 Like being read to and has favorite books of
different types - fiction, non-fiction, poetry
 They can generate ideas for writing
Kindergarten -2nd Graders
How you can help!
Read out loud and talk about stories
every day
Get your child a library card and go to
the library regularly
Read nursery rhymes and sing songs
together
Talk with your child’s teacher often about
your child’s work
Let your child see you reading for fun
Kindergarten -2nd Graders
Take time each day to talk about school
and share your day
Have a writing supply box with crayons
and paper
Watch education TV programs together
that teach letter sounds and words. Limit
other television viewing
Listen to your child
Encourage your child to act out stories
in plays or puppet shows with friends,
brothers/sisters, relatives, etc.
Kindergarten -2nd Graders
Have your child draw a picture.
Together, write a story that goes with
that picture. You may use a family
photograph, a picture from a magazine,
or one drawn by child.
Play games with your child that
require concentration - card games,
memory games, etc.
Play rhyming games, sing songs with
rhymes, and play with the sounds of
words.
Kindergarten -2nd Graders
Make tape recordings of books when
you will not be available to read in
person. The child can still “read with
you” in your absence…great for noncustodial parents who want to read
regularly with their child.
Read a story to the child and have him
retell the story to you later. Ask
questions during reading. . .”What do
you think will happen? Guess the
ending, what would you do?”
Strategies for Learning to
Read
Parent led activities:
 Introduce a new book - look at the cover - think
what the book will be about- do a picture read look at new vocabulary
 Guess the Ending
 Predicting - “ What do you think will happen
next?” “What should he do?”
 Give help when needed Wait time: use cueing strategies

Does it make sense? What is the beginning sound? Does it
sound right? Skip it and read on to the end. Backtrack and reread.
Use key words and picture clues. Find chunks of words that you know.
Use letter sounds from families - onsets and rimes.
Strategies for Learning to
Read
Choose books with:
Repetition or rhymes
Simple Text
Predictability
Picture clues
Interest to child
Strategies for Learning to
Read
Reread favorite books
Retell the story
Tape a book
Put a story in order
Play word games
3rd - 5th Graders
From Sunshine State Standards:
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(read and write every day. They start to move from
“Learning to Read” to “Reading to Learn.” )
 Read many kinds of children’s books
 Read for fun, information, and understanding
 Use different ways of reading - sounding out
words, getting information from the story, and
personal knowledge - to understand stories and
new words
 Understand main ideas and purpose
3rd - 5th Graders
 They can identify fact, fiction and opinion in
texts
 In writing, they create logical beginning,
middle and ending appropriate to their
writing.
 They can identify an author’s purpose in
writing
 They can read and organize information and
understands how plots are developed.
3rd - 5th Graders
How you can help!
Have a daily family reading time. Take turns
reading out loud
Talk about family and community events
Talk with your child’s teacher and ask how
you can help with learning at home
Ask your child to read wherever you go - in
the car, grocery store or park
3rd - 5th Graders
Watch and talk about TV shows
together
Give books and magazine
subscriptions as gifts
Encourage conversation; share
experiences
Ask questions about what the main
ideas are from fiction and non-fiction
books and articles.
What Parents Can Do to Help!
• Spend time talking to your children every
day.
• Talk about everything • Your values
• education, society, life.
• This will make a difference!
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