Your Attendance Tonight Speaks Volumes To Us and To Your Child!!

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Your Attendance Tonight Speaks Volumes To Us and
To Your Child!!
Thank you for coming!
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Meet the Oviatt 2nd and 3rd Grade Reading Support
Team--

• Kim Ginkens
• Title 1 Support Teacher for K-3rd
• Suzette Roach
• Title 1 Support Teacher for K-3rd
• Sarah Skinner
• 3rd Grade Collab. Teacher with Mr. Stoulil
  Mrs. White
• Stacey Morgan
• 2nd Grade Collab. Teacher with Mrs. Weber
  Mrs. Scott
• Brett Thompson
• 2 nd Grade Collab. Teacher with Mrs. Spurr
  Mrs. Vroegh

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1. Give parents an overall understanding of the
5 main parts of reading and why each is important.

1. Provide parents with a Take-Home Packet of
   Reading Help Ideas

• 1st Section General Miscellaneous
• 5 Finger Test for Selecting an Appropriate Book
• (Ask teacher for help finding a book or to see
  about borrowing a book)
• Various ways of figuring out a word
• (Caution Preferred method is
  through sounds!)

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Overall GoalTo Assist Parents in
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Helping Your Child To
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To say, Reading Success is ImportantThats
An Understatement!!

• Essential to success in our society. National
  Reading Council
• Choices--If you cant read, you dont choose
  others make choices for you.
  Kozol, 1998
• School frustration Drop Out!
• Job possibilities
• Income potential
• Overall satisfaction

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Without Intervention, Strugglers Continue To
Struggle!

• Poor reader in 1st grade88 probability of being
  poor reader in 4th grade Juel 1988
• 75 of students identified with reading problems
  in 3rd gradestill reading disabled in 9th grade
  Shaywitz et al 1993

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The Gap Continues to Widen Over Time!
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Reading Is Truly Becoming Rocket Science!!

• Complicated!
• Recent Advances in What We Know
• Brain-based studies
• Better screening for finding problems
  earlier

(1985more golf balls tested than reading
programs!)
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For the Struggling ReaderApproach with Sense of
Urgency!
More minutes of instruction More precise in
our instruction More opportunities for practice
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Sounds like Trouble in the Old West!
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Dont Worry We can help you Round-Up the Big
Five ideas Lickety-Split!!
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1. Phonemic Awareness 2. Phonics 3. Fluency 4.
Vocabulary 5. Comprehension
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
(Hearing Only)
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• Its all about the ear!!

The first step to reading is being able to hear
the difference between sounds.
Initial Sound Fluency (ISF) Tested in Kindergarten
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Segmenting Skill

• Ability to break apart the individual sounds
  (phonemes)
• within a word.
• Teacher Cat Student c - a - t

Eventually will go to writingchild thinks of
sounds in word he wants to write.
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF) Tested in
Kindergarten 1st Gr
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Blending Skill

• Teacher C - A - T
• Student----- CAT
• Eventually goes to reading
• Learning the first skill necessary for sounding
  out a word

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Phonemic Awareness Ideas (Packet)

• (Not much in this area applies for this age
  level)
• List of Books with phonemic awareness elements
  (rhyming, etc.)

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Phonics
(Sounds to Symbols)
Taking it to print!
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• Making the connection between letters and the
  sounds they represent.
• Ability to sound out
• words by saying
• the sounds of the letters in order in a word.

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Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) Tested in Kind., 1st,
Beginning 2nd
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Phonics Ideas (Packet)

• Making Words Letter Cards (p. 6-8)
• Pecci Phonics p. 9
• Sounds combinations p. 10
• Phonics Rules for a Parent p. 11-12
• Phonics Activities p. 13
• Word Sort
• Detective
• Touch Phonics p. 14-16

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Fluency
(Effortlessness in reading skills)
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• Fluency Does Not Mean Fast!!

• Its about knowing something well enough to be
  effortless in the skill.

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Fluency A Series of Steps

• Fluency in hearing sounds ISF
• Fluency in segmenting words PSF
• Fluency in sounding out words NWF
• Fluency in knowing high frequency words Star
  Words
• Fluency in reading a phrase or sentence
• Fluency in reading a passage ORF

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Fluency (Effortlessness) in the act of reading
the words frees up the brain to be able to
comprehend what the author actually wrote!!
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Lacking Fluency is a Vicious Cycle!
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Increase Accuracy FirstFluency Follows!

• Need to correctly read at least 95 of the words
  in order to be likely to understand the meaning
  of the text.

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Fluency Ideas (Packet p. 19-25)

• High Frequency Words Activities p. 20
• Dolch Words
• Star Words
• Inside Out Words
• (Know them well enough
  to know them inside out!)
• Fluency Routines p 21-23 (Rereading is Key!!)
• Multi-Syllabic Help
• Compound Words/Contractions p. 24
• HINTS p. 18
• Troublesome Pairs(common mistakes) p. 25

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Vocabulary
(What do the words mean??)
Crucial to comprehension!!
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• Vocabulary knowledge is one of the single most
  important factors contributing to comprehension.
• Even weak readers vocabulary knowledge is
  strongly correlated with the amount of reading
  they do. (Cunningham Stanovich 1998)
• More words are learned from reading than from
  listening to spoken language.

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When Listening To Your Child Read

• Encourage student to ask you if they dont
  understand a word.
• Give them a bumper sticker definition and help
  them use the context of the sentence to help
  figure it out.

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Vocabulary Ideas (Packet)

• Just read and talk about word meanings as new
  words pop up in the reading!

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Comprehension
(Understanding)
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• With adequate accuracy and an adequate fluency
  ratethere is an 88 probability of being able to
  understand what is being read.
• Understanding what we read is the ultimate gift
  of being a reader!

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How Can a Parent Help With Comprehension

• Talk about the subject of the book before
  starting.
• Reinforce self-correction of mistakes during the
  reading.
• Table-tap unnoticed mistakes during reading.
• Model asking questions of self during the
  reading.
• Stop and talk during the story to reinforce
  vocabulary understanding and monitor for meaning.
• After reading, ask for retell of picture books or
  one sentence summaries of chapter from chapter
  books.

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Comprehension Ideas (Packet pp 27-30)

• Before/During/After Thoughts
• Good readers ask questions of self text
  during readingbe an active reader!!
• Story WheelSpin for some after questions

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Technology (Packet p. 31)

• Warning--
• Great Websites Can Rope You In!
• See packet p. 31

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The Power of a Parent
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A parent is a childs first tutor in unraveling
the fascinating puzzle of written language.
Responsibility of a teacher is teaching, but the
power of truly improving a childs reading is
with the parent for providing routine practice by
listening to your child read every day.
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In a NutshellOur Parent Tips

• Dont miss reading this!
• Packet p. 32-33

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Time Spent Reading You do the math!!

• Student A

• Student B

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The Power of a Parent is in Providing Practice

• Time spent reading with your child is one of the
• best investments you can make to your childs
  future.

Improving Your Childs Future
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A parent is a childs one enduring source of
faith that somehow, sooner or later, he or she
will become a reader.
--Becoming a Nation of Readers
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Lets Wrap This Night Up

• Questions and Answers Session

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The Presentation Is Over, But Rather Than Call It
THE END, We Prefer To Say
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Happy Trails To You

• Until we meet again!

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Together we can reach for the stars!!
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