Transcript First Grade Here We Come!!

Statistics
 Story Time / Read Aloud
 Alphabet Knowledge
 Text Examples
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› How do I get my child to a level 6?
› How do I move my child beyond a level 6?
Math Concepts
 At Home Ideas
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Multiple scientific studies show that children
who get a slow start in learning to read are
not simply experiencing a developmental
lag, but are unlikely to catch up. (Hall 2006)
 If a child is struggling to read on level in first
grade, there is an 88% chance that child
will struggle in fourth grade. (Juel 1988)
 74% of struggling fourth grade readers will
continue to struggle in ninth grade. (Francis
1996)
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Reading aloud to your child is one of the
single most important factors for building
critical concepts about reading.
› Reading aloud bridges the gap between
how we write and how we speak.
› Reading aloud introduces your child to new
ideas and vocabulary.
› Reading aloud builds a lifetime love of
reading.
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Letter knowledge is the foundation for
reading and writing.
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ABC Chart Chant
a
a_e
ai
ay
e
e_e
ee
ea
_y
ie
i
i_e
ie
igh
_y
o
o_e
oa
ow
oe
u
u_e
ue
ew
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A level 6 has
› A little repetition of
the text
› Unknown words are
decodable
› Usually 2-4 lines of text
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Skills for a level 6
› Beginning and ending
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consonant sounds
Double final
consonants
Short vowels
Two letter clusters
Endings
Contractions with ‘s
Sight words
 Word work
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Sight words
 Word work
 Reading strategies
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Sight words
 Word work
 Reading strategies
 Comprehension
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Retelling
Hand
First grade sight words
 Word work
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First grade sight words
 Word work
 Reading strategies
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First grade sight words
 Word work
 Reading strategies
 Comprehension
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› Making connections
› Identifying favorite part and why
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A level 18 has
› Fewer pictures
› Large amount of
dialogue
› Introduction of 2nd grade
sight words
› Focus is on
comprehension and
fluency
› Amount of information
needed when retelling
increases
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Skills for a level 18
› Apply skills to decode
larger words
› Base words and endings
› Words with multiple
syllables
› Recognize a large
amount of sight words
Recognize ½ and ¼ shape
Identify, name and describe 2 and 3 dimensional shapes
Read, write, and compare numbers less than 100
Skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
Addition to 20
Subtraction within 20
Telling time to nearest hour and half hour
Count money to the value of one dollar
Graphing using bar and picture graphs
Numbers to 40 – use tens and ones, compare, 10 more and 10
less
 Multiplication – use manipulatives, pictures and repeated
addition to solve multiplication problems to 40
 Division – use manipulatives, pictures and repeated subtraction
to solve division problems
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Making words
› Pull down letters fast
› Mix and make sight words and spelling words
› Make and write sight words and spelling
words
› Shaving cream or pudding
› Salt, kool-aid, or sand
› Sidewalk chalk
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Writing
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Math
› Journals
› Identify coins
› Grocery lists
› Count change
› Story writing
› Sort and order coins
Sight words
› 1 minute drills
› Flash cards
› Add or subtract
objects around the
house
› Tell time at home
› Sidewalk chalk
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Websites
› Apples for the Teacher
› Game Goo
› Soft Schools
› Starfall
› Gamequarium
› Spelling City