Transcript Kindergarten Orientation Presented by: Keri Ramsay K

Kindergarten Orientation
Presented by:
Keri Ramsay
K-12 Reading Supervisor
What Will Your Child Experience at
School?
 Core reading program – Houghton Mifflin
 Kid Writing
 Centers
 Targeted instruction
 Small group reading
 Homework
What will my child need to do by the
end of Kindergarten???
 Listening and Speaking Skills
 Reading Skills
 Writing Skills
Listening and Speaking Skills
 Listen attentively
 Stay on topic and participate in class discussions
 Wait his or her turn to speak in a group
What Can I Do to Help My Child with
Speaking and Listening?
 Dinner conversation – practice taking turns sharing
about the day
 Ask your child to look at you when you are speaking to
them
 Play board games
 Ask your child his or her opinion about various topics at
home (ex: what to have for dinner, how should we make
lunch, tell me about the TV show you were watching,
why do you like this game or show, etc.)
Reading Skills
 Book handling skills
 When hearing a word, can identify beginning, ending,
and middle sounds
 Segment a spoken word into 4 sounds
 Identify all letter sounds
 Identify capital and lowercase letters
 Recognize about 33 high frequency words
 Decode simple words with short vowels
 Talk about the beginning, middle, and end of a story in
order
What Can I Do to Help My Child with
Reading Skills?
 Read to him or her at home every day
 Take your child to the library
 Play games (at home, in the car, waiting on line at the
grocery store, etc.) to practice phonemic awareness
 Practice reading high frequency words every day and look
for them in books you read
 After reading, ask your child to retell the story to you. Ask
what happened at the beginning, in the middle, and at the
end.
 Whenever possible, MAKE IT FUN!!!
When Reading To Your Child, Ask Him
or Her…
 What do you think this story will be about?
 What do you think is going to happen next?
 Do you think this story is real or make-believe?
 Does this sound like another story you know?
 Who are the characters?
 How are the characters alike/different?
 Where is this story happening?
 Why do you think that happened?
 What was this mostly about?
Writing Skills
 Print first and last name correctly
 Draw a picture and write about it
 Spell high frequency words
What Can I Do to Help My Child with
Writing Skills?
 Have writing materials available for your child (a basket,
drawer, desk, etc.)
 Practice phonemic awareness skills at home
 Encourage your child to draw pictures and tell you about
them
 Watch as your child writes to avoid incorrect letter
formation habits (Remember: Top to Bottom!)
 Ask your child to spell words every day
Think Central
 Surveys will come home
 www.thinkcentral.com
 Directions and further information will come home with
your child
How Will the Teacher Know What My
Child Needs?
 Regular informal assessments – letters, high frequency
words, sounds, journal writing
 DIBELS Next screener
 First Sound Fluency (FSF): The assessor says words, and the
student says the first sound for each word.
 Letter Naming Fluency (LNF): The student is presented with
a sheet of letters and asked to name the letters.
 Phoneme Segmentation Fluency (PSF): The assessor says
words, and the student says the individual sounds for each
word.
 Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF): The student is presented
with a list of VC and CVC nonsense words (e.g., sig, rav, ov)
and asked to read the words.
We Are in This Together!!!
 Don’t panic!
 Every child develops at his or her own pace
 Let’s work together as a team!
Have a Wonderful School Year!
 Questions???
 Contact Information:
Keri Ramsay
K-12 Reading Supervisor
[email protected]
(570)402-1000 ext. 1313