Partners in Literacy

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Partners in Literacy

• Arkansas Parent Training and Information
  Network/Arkansas State Improvement Grant
• 1123 S. University, 225,
• Little Rock, AR 72204
• 800.223.1330 501.614.7020
• Fax [phone]
• Website adcpti.org

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What is Parent Involvement?
The participation of parents in regular,
two-way, and meaningful communication involving
student academic learning and other school
activities. NCLB Act 2002 Sec. 101 32
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What is Literacy?
- The ability to speak, listen, read and write. -
The ability to locate, evaluate, use and
communicate meaning using a wide range of
resources including text, visual, audio and video
sources.
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What is Literacy?
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What ALL Parents Can DO!

• TALK with your child and ask your child questions
• READ to your child and let your child read to you

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Skill Teaching Strategy

• Step 1. I DO (Parent demonstrates)
• Repeat as needed
• Step 2. WE DO (Parent with Child)
• Repeat together until child
• understands what to do
• Step 3. YOU DO (Child)
• Repeat many times until child
• can do it well.
• If needed, start again at step 1 or 2

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Phonological Awareness

• Definition
• - The understanding that spoken language is made
  up of individual and separate sounds
• Phonological awareness activities can involve
  work with rhymes, words, sentences, syllables,
  and phonemes.

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Phonological Awareness Activities

• 1. Oral Rhyming (cat rat sat)
• Read poetry and other rhyming books. (Humpty
  Dumpty) When reading a familiar rhyme, stop
  before a rhyming word and ask your child to say
  the word.
• 2. Syllable awareness in spoken words
• Clap parts of words. Start with your childs
  name.
• 3. Phonemic awareness (an essential element)
  Individual sounds in spoken words is a part of
  phonological awareness.

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Five Essential Elements of Literacy
The BIG IDEAS

• 1. Phonemic Awareness
• 2. Phonics
• 3. Fluency
• 4. Vocabulary
• 5. Comprehension

WORDS
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Five Big Ideas of Literacy

• Phonemic Awareness
• The ability to notice, think about, and work with
  the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
• The ability to hear, identify and manipulate the
  individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

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Phonemes

• Phonemes are the smallest parts of spoken
  language that make a difference in the meanings
  of words.
• For example, changing the first phoneme (or first
  sound) in the word hat from /h/ to /b/ changes
  the word from hat to bat, and so changes the
  meaning of the word.

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Phonemic Awareness

• Children need to learn
• The spoken word consists of individual sounds or
  phonemes
• How the sounds work
• 1. segment (break apart) into sounds
• 2. blend (put back together)
• 3. manipulate (add, delete substitute).

Instruction in phonemic awareness skills helps
children learn to read and spell. They
understand that letters and sounds are related in
a predictable way.
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Phonemic Awareness Activities

• 1. Isolation-Individual sounds in a word.
• What is the first sound in van? /v/
• 2. Categorization-Child recognizes the word in a
  set of 2 to 4 words that has the odd or
  different beginning sound.
• Which word doesnt belong? bus, bun, rug.
  rug
• 3. Blending-Blend sounds into words.
• What word is /s/ /u/ /n/? sun

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Phonemic Awareness Activities

• 4. Segmentation-Break words into separate sounds,
  say each sound as your child taps or counts it.
• fish /f/ /i/ /sh/ (3 sounds)
• 5. Addition-Make a new word by adding a phoneme.
• What word do you have if you add /s/ to the
  beginning of the word park? (S PARK) SPARK
• 6. Substitution-Substitute one phoneme for
  another to make a new word.
• The word is BUG. Change /g/ to /n/. Whats the
  new word? BUN

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Five Big Ideas of Literacy

• Phonics instruction (Alphabetic Principle)
• There is a predictable relationship between
  phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (writing)

Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle contributes
greatly to a childs ability to read words both
in isolation and in connected text.
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Phonics Activities
sh

• Practice saying the names and sounds of letters
  with your child.
• Match pictures of familiar things with the
  letters representing the beginning, middle and
  ending sounds. (shout, shirt, shell)
• Ask your child to sound out each syllable when he
  or she comes to an unfamiliar word, then put the
  syllables together to make the word. (sy lla
  ble syllable)

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Five Big Ideas of Literacy

• Fluency and Accuracy
• The ability to read text accurately and quickly
  not hurried reading.
• Provides a bridge between word recognition and
  comprehension

Readers who have not yet developed fluency read
slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is
choppy and labored.
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Fluency Activities

• ?Read with your child everyday, smoothly pointing
  to words as you read.
• Read a story, poem or play to your child, with
  expression. Then ask him to read the same page
  out loud to you.
• Ask your child to read familiar stories over and
  over. See if she can read the story more quickly
  and smoothly over time.

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Five Big Ideas of Literacy
WORDS

• Vocabulary
• Understanding what words mean by themselves and
  in sentences.
• Oral Vocabulary refers to words that we use in
  speaking or recognize in listening
• Reading Vocabulary refers to words we recognize
  or use in print.

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Vocabulary Activities
WORDS

• TALK with your child during everyday activities
  and include your child in a variety of activities
  .
• Look through a book before reading a story and
  ask your child to use words
• to describe the pictures.
• Use your childs textbook and talk to him about
  the vocabulary/words being studied.
• Make refrigerator magnet words.

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Five Big Ideas of Literacy

• Comprehension
• Understanding what has been read.

Comprehension is the reason for reading! If
readers can read the words, but do not understand
what they are reading, they are not really
reading.
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Comprehension

• Students need to learn how to
• Understand and remember what they read
• Relate their own knowledge or experience to text
• Communicate with others about what they read
• Use comprehension strategies

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Comprehension Activities

• While traveling, ask questions about landmarks,
  reasons people might live in certain areas, etc.
• Think out loud to your child when you are doing
  things around the house.
• Check out books from the library with your child.
  Read the books title, or look at the pictures,
  and ask what he or she thinks the book is about.
• Ask your child to retell parts of a story
• to you after reading together.
• Allow your child to read and
• carry out favorite recipes.

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DIBELS
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Assistive Technology for Literacy Improve
Functional Capabilities

• Low Tech Mid Tech

Light
Fat Pencil
Book stand
Magnifier
Hi Tech
Tape Recorder and earphones
Computer and keyboard options
Mouse options
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Resources for You

• Your childs teacher
• Parent Facilitators in every public school
• Parent Centers in every
• public school
• Public Library

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Ideas to Build Your Childs Reading
Skills
3 Levels of Brochures

• Literacy Activities for Phonemic Awareness,
  Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension
• Sight Words for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels
  
• Download at http//arksped.k12.ar.us/

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Put Reading First Helping Your Child Learn to
Read

• Parent Brochure for
• Preschool thru Grade 3
• (English and Spanish)
• Order booklet
• 1.800.228.8813
• or can download at
• http//www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publi
  cations/k-3.html

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A Child Becomes a Reader

• Parent Booklet for
• Kindergarten thru
• Grade 3 OR
• Birth through Preschool
• Order from
• 1.800.228.8813
• or can download at
• http//www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publ
  ications/k-3.html

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Helping Your Child Become a Reader

• Parent Booklet for Birth
• through age 6
• (English and Spanish)
• DOWNLOAD ONLY
• 1.877.433.7827
• download at
• http//www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.ht
  ml

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Resources for You Internet Websites

• LiteracyCenter.net www.literacycenter.net
• On-line Early Childhood activities in
  English, Spanish, German and French
• Reading Rockets www.readingrockets.org
• Activities and tip sheets for pre-school
  through 3rd grade in English and Spanish
• Compact for Reading School-Home Links
• http//www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/index
  .html
• Printable activities for grades K-3rd (100
  each) in English and Spanish

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Resources for You Internet Websites

• The Arkansas Family Literacy Partnership
  www.accessarkansas.org/afl/about_us.html
• Including AR Even Start Family Literacy. 4
  In-depth videos.
• DIBELS Parent Brochure gives basic assessment
  information http//www.fcrr.org/assessment/PDFfile
  s/ParentBrochure.pdf
• Special Education http//arksped.k12.ar.us
• IDEA changes and downloadable literacy
  brochures
• ? Special-Kids email http//groups.yahoo.com/group
  /Special-Kids
• Group email for Arkansas families who have
  children with special needs. Parents helping
  parents.

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Resources for You Internet Websites

• Arkansas Literacy Intervention Matrix
• literacymatrix.com
• Classroom lessons/interventions and possible
  modifications for the five essential areas of
  literacy for grades K - 4, 5 - 8, and 9 -12.
  Lessons are linked to Arkansas Frameworks and
  include activities for students in need of Tier
  I, II, III, IV and V level of support.

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Resources for You Internet Websites

• Family Center on Technology and Disability
  www.fctd.info
• Arkansas State Improvement Grant
  www.arstateimprovementgrant.com
• Arkansas Disability Coalition (ADC) and
• PTI (AR Parent Training and Information Network)
• http//arkansaspti.org or adcpti.org
• A non-profit organization working with parents
  of children with disabilities to develop
  self-advocacy skills and improve communication
  between home and school.

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• Thank you!