Helping Your Child Read

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Helping Your Child Read Get It!

• Reading in the Content Areas
• Presented By
• Julie DiGiacomo and Jeffrey Monacelli

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What is Reading?

• Reading is thinking and interacting with text.

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PROBLEM One of the BIGGEST obstacles for
children is NONFICTION READING!
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EXPECTATIONS HAVE CHANGED The Common Core
Standards call for elementary curriculum
materials to be recalibrated to reflect a mix of
50 percent literary and 50 percent informational
text, including reading in ELA, science, social
studies, and the arts.
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By 4th Grade Children are expected to read at
least 2 different texts and synthesize
information.
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Fiction vs. Nonfiction

• FACT Nonfiction is harder to read
• than fiction.
• FACT A student will drop a
• minimum of two reading
• levels when reading
• nonfiction.

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Interesting Fact

• FACT
• Most textbooks students are assigned are
  written above the grade level that they are using
  them in.

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Reading is PERSONAL
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To Make Meaning

• A person brings everything they know to a text.

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If you know A LOT about a topic

• Your reading level goes up and you comprehend
  more.

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If you know LITTLE about a topic

• Your reading level goes down and you comprehend
  less.

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Nonfiction Can Be Tricky

• NONFICTION TEXT STRUCTURE
• SHIFTS CONSTANTLY.
• CHALLENGE
• It is difficult to carry information across
  pages.

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NONFICTION TEXT STRUCTURES

• Description
• Problem/Solution
• Time/Order
• Comparison/Contrast
• Cause/Effect
• Directions

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Identifying Nonfiction Text Structures Crocodile
The crocodile is the master of deception in the
water. It stalks its prey and then swiftly
closes in for the kill. One problem to observe
in crocodile watching is transportation. How can
we an observer get close enough to watch without
scaring it away or being attacked? Archaeologists
have helped us to understand that the evolution
of the crocodile began with The power of the
crocodile is like that of a monstrous machine.
With one lunge it can destroy its prey and
protect the kill from other predators. We
observed the crocodile as it stalked a raccoon
moving through the moonlight toward the edge of
the water. As a result of a noise we made, the
raccoon bolted When observing a crocodile,
first you must
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Identifying Nonfiction Text Structures CROCODILE
The crocodile is the master of deception in the
water. It stalks its prey and then swiftly
closes in for the kill. DESCRIPTION One
problem to observe in crocodile watching is
transportation. How can we an observer get close
enough to watch without scaring it away or being
attacked? PROBLEM/SOLUTION Archaeologists have
helped us to understand that the evolution of the
crocodile began with TIME/ORDER
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Identifying Nonfiction Text Structures CROCODILE
The power of the crocodile is like that of a
monstrous machine. With one lunge it can destroy
its prey and protect the kill from other
predators. COMPRARISON/CONSTRAST We observed
the crocodile as it stalked a raccoon moving
through the moonlight toward the edge of the
water. As a result of a noise we made, the
raccoon bolted CAUSE/EFFECT When observing a
crocodile, first you must DIRECTION
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Tips for PARENTS
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PARENT RESOURCE

• 7 Keys to Comprehension How to Help Your Kids
  Read and Get It!
• By Susan Zimmermann

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Proficient Reader Research The Top 7 Reading
Skills Include

• Creating Mental Images Visualizing
• Connecting
• Questioning the Text
• Drawing Inferences
• Determining Importance
• Synthesizing Information
• Repairing Meaning

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Make the Invisible Visible

• Think Aloud
• Stop, Think and Jot
• Post Its
• Graphic Organizers
• Notes

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What is a think aloud?

• A think aloud is the number one strategy to make
  the invisible visible.

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Think Alouds

• model what
• good readers do!

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THINK ALOUD EXAMPLE SHARKS It never
fails. Youre at the top of the ocean, swimming
in the surf, and someone pretends to be a shark.
They sing ominous music and then lunge at you.
People have always made up myths and legends
about creatures they find mysterious and
terrifying. Sensationalized books, television
shows, and movies strengthen the myth that sharks
are always on the lookout to attack people. The
truth is that there are only about a dozen shark
attacks in the United States each year (about 100
worldwide), and most victims live to tell their
stories. In fact, you have a better chance of
being hit by lightning than of being attacked by
a shark. Sharks have killed fewer people in the
United States in the past one hundred years than
are killed in automobile accidents over a single
holiday weekend. And no shark in the world
counts people as part of its regular dinner menu.
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STRATEGY Chunking Text

• Forces child to stop and think
• Allows child an opportunity to determine what is
  most important

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TIP Force your child to stop and ask

• What is this about?
• What is most important

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SCAFFOLDING EXAMPLE Chunking Text ICEBERGS AND
GLACIERS A single snowflake is a feathery
crystal of ice about the size of your fingernail.
Every snowflake is six-sided, yet each has a
different shape. Once the spinning flakes
fall to the ground, they begin to clump together
and lose their pointed beauty. Soon the
snowflakes become rounded grains of ice with tiny
bubbles of air trapped inside. As more snow
falls, the weight of the snow and ice squeezes
the grains of ice together, forcing out the
trapped air. The color of the ice begins to
change too. The white of airy snow becomes the
steel blue of airless ice. Finally, the blue ice
crystals begin to pack together into a solid
field of ice. What is most important? As snow
falls, the weight of the snow and ice squeezes
the grains of ice together forcing out trapped
air. The color of the ice changes from white to
blue. The ice crystals pack together into solid
fields of ice.
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Questions?