BUILDING BLOCKS FOR READING Building a Foundation for Reading through Phonemic Awareness, Phonics an

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BUILDING BLOCKS FOR READINGBuilding a Foundation
for Reading throughPhonemic Awareness, Phonics
and FluencyModule 1
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A Message from Delaware Department of
Education

• Dear Parents and Guardians,
• We recognize you as your childs first
  teacher. What you do
• with your child will impact him or her for a
  lifetime. We feel it is
• vital for you and your childs teacher to work
  closely to connect
• literacy activities between home and school. We
  also know that
• one of the best things you can do is to read to
  your child on a
• daily basis and have your child read to you.
  Thank you for taking
• time to learn more and for caring about our
  Delaware Children!
• Sincerely,
• Sandra Meyers and Paula Burdette
• DE Dept. of Education

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Becoming a reader involves

• Using language in conversation
• Singing and playing language games
• Listening and responding to stories read aloud
• Recognizing and naming the letters of the
  alphabet
• Connecting sounds to letters to figure out the
  code of reading
• Reading often so that recognizing words becomes
  easy and automatic
• Learning and using new words
• Understanding what is read

Partnership for Reading, NIFL
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• On the Ning Nang Nong
• On the Ning Nang Nong
• Where the cows go BONG!
• And the monkeys all say BOO!
• Theres a Nong Nang Ning
• Where the trees go PING!
• And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo.
• On the Nong Ning Nang
• All the mice go CLANG!
• And you just cant catch em when they do!
• So its Ning Nang Nong!
• Cows go BONG!
• Nong Nang Ning!
• Trees go PING!
• Nong Ning Nang!
• The mice go CLANG!
• What a noisy place to belong
• Is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!!

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What are the building blocks for reading?

• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension

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The all-important foundation for this structure
is
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YOU!
As a parent, you are your childs first and most
important teacher. You dont need to be the best
reader to help - your time and interest and the
pleasure that you share with your child as part
of reading together are what counts.
Helping Your Child Become A Reader
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Phonemic Awareness

• Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice,
  think about, and work with the individual sounds
  in spoken words.

- Put Reading First The Research Building
Blocks for Teaching Children to Read
(Armbruster, Lehr, Osborn, 2001)
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Why does it matter?

• Before children learn to read print, they need
  to become aware of how the sounds in words work.

- Put Reading First, Armbruster, et al
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How can you help?

• Anytime/anyplace activities
• Games and activities to create
• Books to support phonemic awareness

Practicing phonemic awareness can be fun and
inventive and helps improve reading ability for
young children at risk for reading difficulties.
Brady, Fowler,
Stone, Winbury, 1994
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Theres a WOCKET in my POCKET !
Did you ever have the feeling theres a WASKET
in your _________? Or a NUREAU in your
_________? Or a WOSET in your __________?
- Dr. Seuss
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Phonics

• The relationship between the letters of written
  language and the sounds of spoken language.

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How can you help?

• Anytime/anyplace activities
• Games and activities to create
• Literature to support phonics

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The Alphabet Keeper
Where can we hide? cry the letters.
Shout loud! says c.
Loud! shout the letters, and c jumps up and
turns loud
into
cloud.
The letters sit in the cloud, silent.
Excerpted from The Alphabet Keeper by Mary
Murphy, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002
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Fluency

• Fluency is the ability to read a text
  accurately and quickly.
• Put Reading First The Research Building Blocks
  for Teaching Children to Read (Armbruster, Lehr,
  Osborn, 2001)

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Why does Fluency matter?

• Because non-fluent readers focus much of their
  attention on figuring out words, they have less
  attention to devote to comprehension.

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Repeated practice increases skill in many areas

• Playing a sport
• Playing an instrument
• Driving a car
• Keyboarding
• Reading works the same way!

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Accurate word reading is very important

• Students must first know how to read words
  accurately before benefits can be accrued from
  practice!
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  LETRS, Module 5, Moats

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How can you help?

• Begin at the beginning!
• letters and sounds
• words
• Choosing what to read
• I do, we do, you do.

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Wrap up of Module 1

• Q A
• What comes next
• Evaluation
• Thank you!