Curriculum Mapping

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Reading and Math Tips for Parents
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Chattahoochees Champ Challenge Program

• Based on state law, in order to implement a
  Response to Intervention program (RTI).
• All students are involved in the program.
• Based on the needs of our students.
• Student Data is utilized to help us design our
  program.

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Champ Challenge Student Tiers

• Tier 1 Presented during Champ Challenge times
  by the teacher to include enrichment and remedial
  material.
• Tier 2 Presented during Champ Challenge times
  in a Small Group Setting to help build skills
  supported by student data.

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Champ Challenge Student Tiers

• Tier 3 Presented during Champ Challenge times
  in a small setting and also in the classroom.
  Goals based on student data.
• Tier 4 Special Education Based on student
  data and an individualized educational program.

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Student Assessments

• Aims Web Testing Universal screening for all
  K-2nd grade students. Tier 2 and Tier 3 students
  are tested every two weeks by small group
  teacher.
• Benchmark Assessments For all 3rd-5th grade
  students.

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Teaching Young Readers

• Read to your child
• Play word games
• Play sounds games (think of a word that begins
  with M)
• Write short stories your child dictates
• Tell stories
• Encourage your child to add to a story
• Sing alphabet songs (traditional or made up)
• Say a word and have your child name the opposite
• Play rhyming word games

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Reading Aloud

• Set aside a special time each day to read aloud
  to your child.
• Read stories and informational books.
• Read stories to your child and have them tell the
  stories back to you.
• Let children listen to books on tape.
• Have your child read to you (may be a picture
  book with them making up their own stories).

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Helping Your Child Become a Better Reader

• Cut a picture from an old magazine and have your
  child write a story about it.
• Have your child draw a family picture and then
  write a sentence about what they drew.
• Tell your child a story and have them write their
  own ending.
• Have your children write letters and thank-you
  notes to friends and relatives.
• As you listen to your child read give them praise
  and encouragement.
• Have your child read game instructions, recipe
  directions, catalogs, and childrens magazines.
• Have a family reading time when everyone in the
  family is reading.

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Helping Your Child Read at Home

• As you read a book with your children, ask them
  questions about the book. Who, What, When, and
  Where
• Have your child read a new story, then ask them
  to tell you the story in their own words.
• Have your child tell a story they read in the
  order of how things happened.
• As you are reading a story to your child take
  time to pause and ask them what they think will
  happen next.
• Talk with your child about the books they have
  read.
• Have your child read aloud to you.
• Let your child see you reading. Parents are
  important role models.
• Get your child a library card and visit the
  Library often.

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Encourage Reading

• Look for things your child might like to read.
  Use their interests and hobbies.
• Leave all sorts of reading materials around your
  home.
• Encourage older children to read to their younger
  brothers and sisters.
• Play games that are reading related
• Set aside a regular time for reading.
• Read aloud to your child.
• Have your child read aloud to you.

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Allow and encourage your child to count and use
money

• Ask your child to count the change from your
  wallet or pocket.
• Allow your child to try to pay with the correct
  bills and coins when buying items at a store.
• Ask your child to identify groups of coins.
• Give your child an amount of an item and money to
  buy the item and ask them to make the correct
  change.

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Play Games With Your Child

• Chutes and Ladders
• Monopoly
• Parcheesi
• Yahtzee
• Dominoes
• Mastermind
• Racko

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Practice Telling Time(not digital)

• Ask your child to tell you when the clock shows
  the time you need to leave to go somewhere.
• Ask your child the time a television program they
  like to watch begins.
• Begin telling time to the hour and half hour and
  then use minutes.
• Look at the time and ask you child what time it
  will be one hour later or one hour earlier.

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Help Your Child Measure Height and Weight

• Tape a measuring tape to a door frame, mark your
  childs height, and ask him/her to read the
  height from the tape. Do this every three
  months.
• Use a bathroom scale to weigh pets or house hold
  objects. Estimate before weighing.
• Ask your child to use a ruler or tape measure to
  measure objects in your house.

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Cook With Your Child

• Ask your child to help measure ingredients when
  you cook or bake.
• If a mix requires a half-cup of water, ask your
  child to fill the cup to the correct level.
• When measuring sugar or flour, ask your child to
  select and fill the correct measuring cup.

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Helping Your Child with Math at Home

• Practice Flash Cards for math facts.
• Count backwards
• Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s but start at a random
  number like 35.
• Practice facts in terms of fact families.
• Say a number and ask your child what ten more
  would be, ten less, 5 more, and 5 less would be.

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Fine Motor Skills

• Mold and roll play dough into tiny balls (peas)
  using only the finger tips
• Using pegs or toothpicks make designs in play
  dough
• Cut play dough with a plastic knife or pizza
  wheel
• Tear newspaper into strips and then crumple them
  into balls.
• Scrunch up 1 sheet of newspaper in one hand
• Lacing and sewing activities such as stringing
  beads, cheerios, macaroni, etc

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With School and Home Working Together We Will
Have Successful Students