Family Reading Workshop

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Family ReadingWorkshop
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7 Ways You Can Make a Difference

• Read yourself!
• Make sure your children read EVERY DAY!
• Go to the library!
• Read aloud to your children! (Start young)
• Use the newspaper scavenger hunts!
• Give books as gifts everyone loves a good book!
• Make reading a privilege If you clean your room
  we can read together!
• Adapted from the National Network for Child Care,
  1995.

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Comprehension is . . .

• making sense of what you read!
• Good readers are good comprehenders.

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Before You Read

• Preview
• Predict
• Ask Questions
• Set a Purpose

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Preview

• Look at . . .
• Title
• Pictures
• Chapter headings
• Captions
• What do I already know about this?

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Predict Ask Questions

• Predict
• I think this might be about . . .
• I think _____ will happen because _____
• Ask Questions
• I wonder . . .
• Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

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Set a Purpose!

• I am going to read to find out . . .
• I am going to read to figure out . . .

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During Reading

• Check Understanding does it make sense?
• Make Images make pictures in your mind!
• Check/Fix Predictions
• Question
• Make Connections
• Fix-Up Strategies

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Making Connections

• This reminds me of . . .
• Another book
• A time in my life
• Something about the world

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Fix-Up Strategies

• Use the pictures.
• Sound out the word. c-a-t
• Go back. Reread. ?
• Get your mouth ready.
• Read on. ?
• Does this sound right?
• Does this make sense? ?
• Chunk the word. want-ed

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Questions
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Reminders

• Next Tuesday Comprehension Part 2!
• Evaluations
• More books!
• Thank You, your support makes a difference!