Transcript Animated Summer V

Summer Solutions
The Summer Slide!
According to the authors of a
November 2002 report from Johns
Hopkins Center for Summer Learning:
“A conservative estimate of lost
instructional time is approximately
two months or roughly 22 percent of
the school year.”
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Three Ways to Prevent
Summer Slide
• Six books to summer success
• Read something every day
• Keep reading aloud
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What’s out there
to help?
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Public libraries
• Libraries are ideal places for families
to continue their reading habits over
the summer months
• More than 95 percent of public
libraries offer summer reading
programs
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The *Massachusetts Summer
Reading Program for 2011
:
Whitman Public Library
and
Hanson Public Library
*Sponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Library System, the
Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
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The Summer Reading Lists
are available on the WHRSD website
Summer Reading Page
as well as on the individual elementary
school library pages:
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Book Stores
• Barnes and Noble:
Summer Reading Club
• Buttonwood Books and Storybook Cove
Story Hour
• Building 19, Ocean State Job Lot, and Target
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Online Incentive Programs:
Scholastic: Summer Challenge
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Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for
children in grades K-8. Children create their own book
lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple
choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn
points and prizes for their literary successes.
Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by
Sylvan Learning.
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Red Sox Reading Game
This ongoing summer literacy partnership between the
Massachusetts Teachers Association, the Boston Red Sox
and The Hanover Insurance Group is a great source of
pride for MTA members because it has encouraged
students to read hundreds of thousands of books over the
summer when they are away from school.
Deadline to enter July 17, 2011.
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Ebooks:
TumbleBooks
Available through the Hanson Public Library,
TumbleBooks Library is an online collection of
animated, talking picture books which teach young
children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love!
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Storyline Online
Storyline Online is an innovative website
featuring well-known actors reading quality
children's picture books aloud.
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Starfall
Starfall is a free website to help enhance
reading skills. Perfect for kindergarten, first
grade, and second grade. Contains exciting
interactive books and phonics games.
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Websites for Parents
Elementary Summer
Resource Page
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Websites for Parents
Reading is Fundamental
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Reading Rockets
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Get Ready to Read!
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Read Kiddo Read
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Summer Reading and Fluency
You've got the reading lists. You've got the
books. But what else can you do to make
your children better readers this summer?
• You can help them read more smoothly and
accurately. Schools call this reading fluency.
• When kids can read fluently, it's easier for them
to understand what they're reading..
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• Less fluent readers read more slowly and word
by word. Their attention is focused on sounding
out each word, therefore, they pay less attention
to understanding what they've read.
• Their comprehension and their motivation can
suffer. Of course, beginning readers aren't fluent
yet, but by the end of first grade, kids should be
reading books at their grade level with ease and
expression.
• The summer months provide a great opportunity
for you to help your child continue to develop
reading fluency.
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Parents can Help Build Fluency:
• Choose the right books
Help your child choose books that he can comfortably read.
The "five-finger test" is a useful guideline for beginning
readers. As your child reads, count the number of words he
cannot read per page. In general, there should be five words
or fewer that give him trouble on each page. If a book
contains several pages on which you count more than five
words that he can't read, consider reading that book to your
child until he develops more reading skills.
• Read to your kids every day
Model your own fluent reading as you read and reread books
with your child. Find time each day to read books to him/her
that are just beyond his/her reading level. He/she will enjoy
listening to more advanced stories and will be hearing a great
example of fluent reading.
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Keep Reading this Summer!
• Set a good example!
Keep lots of reading material around the house.
Turn off the TV and have each person read his or
her book, including mom and dad.
• Read the same book your child is reading &
discuss it.
This is the way to develop habits of the mind and
build capacity for thought and insight.
• Try Readers’ Theater
This is a fun and engaging way to read together
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• Buy books on tape, especially for a child with a
learning disability.
Listen to them in the car, or turn off the TV and have the
family listen to them together.
• Make trips a way to encourage reading by reading
aloud traffic signs, billboards, notices.
Show your children how to read a map, and once you are
on the road, let them take turns being the navigator.
• Encourage children to keep a summer scrapbook.
• Take your children to the library regularly.
Check the library calendar for special summer reading
activities and events.
• Build in time for relaxed reading on vacation
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Motivating reluctant readers
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“Tune-in” to determine your child’s interests
Try graphic novels (comics)
Help create your child’s image of himself as a reader
Model reading behavior – make reading a part of
your everyday life
• Surround kids with reading materials and other
resources to keep them inspired
• Plug in to fun
(humorous books like the Captain Underpants or
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series)
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RememberReading isn’t just books!
What other media besides books is effective?
Print, text, and words in all forms and fashions are
excellent:
• Games
• Audio books
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Labels / Signs / Logos
• Online resources
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What do I do with all this?
• Read with your child every day!
• Ask questions about what they are
reading
Some examples:
What was your favorite part?
Who was your favorite character?
Did you like the book?
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Find this
PowerPoint,
Summer Reading Lists,
and the
Elementary Summer Resource Page
on the
Whitman Hanson Regional
School District website
under Summer Reading.
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Thank you for coming
tonight!
Have a great summer!