Motivating your child to read

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Motivating your child to read

• Cristina Parodi Araya
• Parent / Family Liaison
• San Diego County Office of Education
• [phone]
• cristina.araya_at_sdcoe.net

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What is reading?

• Language
• Communication
• Learning
• Knowledge

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Academic success starts with reading!By reading
correctly, we develop important skills such as

• Correct use of the language in a conversation
• Listen and answer correctly, story telling read
  aloud
• Identify and connect sounds to words
• Correct use of new words
• Understanding of what has been read

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How can parents support the school from home?

• Teaching language sounds
• Teaching the alphabet
• Reading to their children everyday
• Helping children write the relation between word
  and sound
• Showing their kids different ways to
  think/interpret what they are reading
• Visiting the library frequently

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Link between reading and lifeChildren start
discovering that they are surrounded by words
when

• They are exposed to books
• Go to the supermarket
• Watch TV
• Through the car window
• In the kitchen cabinets

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Link between reading and life

• As soon as children start learning the meaning of
  the words, reading becomes something stimulating
  and comforting.
• While supporting reading with games, songs,
  rhymes, puzzles and riddles parents and teachers
  help children to enjoy even more the language.
• Developing a good reading habit, it is going to
  lay the foundation for a lifetime skill.

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How can I recognize a good reading program at
school?

• Teachers must show enthusiasm and promote the
  value and importance of being a good reader.
• Starting Kindergarten, every student must take
  assessment tests, to identify their knowledge and
  skills needed to become successful readers.
• Reading practice and instruction should be
  present 60 minutes a day for students in
  Kindergarten, and 90 minutes a day for 1-3 grade
  students.

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How can I recognize a good reading program at
school?

• Every student in 1-3 grade, who is behind in
  reading, should receive special instruction and
  practice in reading.
• During reading practice and instruction, students
  learn to combine letters and sounds in order to
  make up new words.
• Students have to practice spelling daily and take
  weekly tests.

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How can I recognize a good reading program at
school?

• The connection between reading and writing must
  be taught daily.
• Every classroom must be equipped with a book
  collection. The school library should be used
  frequently. Students should be allowed to borrow
  books.

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Language Domains
Speak
Listen

Read
Write
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Significance of the First Language in the
development of reading

• Culture
• Traditions
• Family Values
• History
• Transference of skills from one language to
  another

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How can we awaken the interest for reading?

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Famous Writers in Latin America

• Alma Flor Ada (Cuba)
• Isabel Campoy (España)
• María Elena Walsh (Argentina)
• Octavio Paz (México)
• Gabriela Mistral (Chile)

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Famous Writers(Books in English)

• Dr. Seuss
• Eric Carle
• H. A. Rey
• Robert McCloskey
• Margaret W. Brown
• Audrey Wood
• Chris Van Allsburg

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Family is the most important influence in the
development of childrens skills. Working
together home/school we will reach academic
success for all children!