How Can Parents Help Children to Learn

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How Can Parents Help Children to Learn?
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We come to you from

• University of Tennessee
• Family Voices
• STEP

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What is SIG?

• Grant Funded by OSEP
• Goal Increased Literacy for Students Pre-K
  through High School
• Professional Development
• Family Involvement

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Supporting Childrens Learning

• Why are parents important in education?
• Important areas in Reading Research the five
  pillars
• How does reading develop and improve?
• Why and how students struggle
• How can we help students?

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Why are Parents Important in Their Children's
Education?

• What does the Research say about the effect of
  Family Involvement?
• What is Family Involvement?
• Parenting
• Communicating
• Volunteering
• Learning at Home

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Building Blocks of Reading
Reading Ability
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
Fluency
Vocabulary
Phonics
Reading Readiness
Read
Listen
Print
Talk
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Phonemic Awareness

• Phoneme smallest unit of sound in a spoken word.
  
• Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear,
  identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in
  spoken words.
• cat how many phonemes?/c/ /a/ /t/
• Cake how many phonemes? /c/ /a/ /k/
• Manipulating sounds
• Beginning sounds - bat /b/ .
• Ending sounds - bat /t/
• Rhyming /b/ /a/ /t/ /c/ /a/ /t/
• Hearing syllables clapping, etc.

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Phonics

• Understanding of the predictable relationship
  between phonemes (sounds) and graphemes
  (letters).
• Systematic and explicit instruction
• Connecting sounds to symbols
• Consonants and vowels
• Combinations and patterns
• Assists decoding efforts

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Fluency

• The ability to read a text accurately, quickly,
  and with expression.
• Bridges word recognition and comprehension.
• Changes with stage of development, familiarity
  with words, amount of practice
• Modeling good reading
• Adult-child reading
• Choral reading
• Tape-assisted reading
• Partner reading

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Vocabulary

• The words we must know to communicate
  effectively. We have a harder time reading words
  we dont know.
• oral speaking and listening
• Reading recognize in print
• Most vocabulary best taught indirectly through
  everyday experiences
• Talking, listening, reading
• Word learning strategies dictionary, word
  parts, context clues
• Repeated exposure to words read, write, say

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Comprehension

• The reason for reading to understand.
• Good readers think when they read
• Purposeful know why they are reading
• Use background knowledge decode, recall,
  compare
• Active think while reading
• Monitor comprehension and use strategies
• Identify where the difficulty occurs
• Identify what the difficulty is
• Restates in own words
• Look back through text
• Look forward for info that help resolve
  difficulty
• Able to use graphic organizers
• Able to ask and answer questions
• Use prior knowledge, predict and summarize

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Example of Importance of Background Knowledge
What do you need to know to read this recipe and
bake these brownies?
Recipe for Brownies 6 Tablespoons Cocoa 1/4
cup butter 1 cup sugar 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup flour 1 cup
toasted pecans (optional) 2 eggs Pour batter
into greased and floured pan. Bake at 350 for ½
hour.
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Literacy for All

• If your child has a disability, does that mean he
  or she shouldnt be working on reading and
  writing skills?
• Would you like to learn more about helping your
  child in those areas?
• STEP, Family Voices contact info is in your
  book

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Model Good Reading

• Read Aloud - example
• Let them see you read
• Show children how to define the purpose for
  reading and to ask questions during reading
• Show how theres always more information to read
  about a subject

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Venn Diagram

• Similarities and Differences

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Different
Different
Similar
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Story Map
Main Characters
Setting
Problem of the story
A story event
Another story event
How the problem is solved
The ending
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KWL Chart
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Parents Role in Reading

• Provide support
• Read and have your child read get them thinking
  and talking
• Help them find interesting sources of reading
• Visit the library and other places give them
  background knowledge
• Dont make reading time at home a chore be
  positive - Now we get to read instead of You
  have to get your reading done.
• Read, read, read

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Recap
What can parents do to support their children's
learning? When do children start the learning to
read process? What are the five areas
researchers say are most important for learning
to read? What are some of the ways in which
children struggle with reading? How can we help
children in those areas?
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Book Reading

• My Shining Star
• Raising a Child Who is Ready to Learn
• By
• Rosemary Wells

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• Questions??

SIG WEBSITE http//sig.cls.utk.edu/ UTK
Contact Reggie Curran rcurran_at_utk.edu Family
Voices Contact Julie Sullivan fvmiddle_at_tndisabil
ity.org STEP Contact Alena Sampson Alena.Sampson_at_
tnstep.org