Transcript Reading Resources - Collierville Schools

Mrs. Christy Marcrum
Resource Teacher
Tara Oaks Elementary
Collierville Schools
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Beginning Readers
• It is important that children have phonemic awareness at the
early stages of reading.
• Phonemic awareness is the understanding that letters
represent individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken language.
• Phonemic awareness is critical to success in the early stages
of reading.
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What can I do to help Build Phonemic
Awareness with my child?
• From an early age, begin to recite poems and rhymes, drawing
attention to individual words and sounds.
• Sing lots of songs, tracking and pointing to individual words and
letters.
• Listen and identify the sounds that come at the beginning,
middle, and the ends of words.
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Continue Phonemic Awareness:
• Write down the letters that you hear in words
spoken orally.
• Blend sounds together to make words and segments
in words.
• Clap the number of syllables in a word.
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Working with Phonemes
• Children need to have an understanding that words
are composed of letters and these letters make
individual sounds (phonemes).
• Begin at a very early age with reviewing upper and
lower case letters of the alphabet and the sound
each letter makes in isolation.
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Continue working with phonemes:
• A fun activity that involves working with phonemes is to have
your child play a listening game. The goal is to change a word
by taking out or adding different phonemes to parts of the
word.
Cut out a Word. For example, dog.
1. Ask your child to remove one letter (the letter d) and replace
it with another (the letter l).
2. Say the new word log together.
3. Continue playing, replacing new letters at the beginning of
the word.
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Continue Working with Phonemes:
• This activity allows children to hear it for themselves
and recognize that changing letters in the word not
only creates a brand new word but creates a brand
new meaning as well.
• This activity can help children to understand that
letters have sounds, that sounds make words, and
that words make meaning.
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Building Sight Vocabulary
• Sight Words are words frequently found in English
text.
• Sight Words are often irregular in spelling and should
be instantly recognized at the earliest possible time.
• Sight Words should be introduced then reviewed
often.
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Continue: Building Sight Vocabulary:
Sight Vocabulary Word Lists include:
• Dolce Word List
• Fry Word List
**It is important to have your child Practice Reading
Sight Words often.
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Read to Your Child!!!
• Reading aloud to your child is one of the most
important things you can do as a parent to help your
child develop a Love for Reading.
• Books, when chosen carefully, provide the
vocabulary and background knowledge that become
so critical to comprehension.
• Try to Never Skip Read-Aloud-Time.
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Shared Reading
• Shared Reading Books are simply books that are read together
(parent and child).
• They can be big books, poems or songs, that are read chorally
or little books that can be easily memorized by your child.
• Shared Reading allows children to practice readiness skills
including: -reading left to right, -tracking words, -discussing
the story, …
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How do I help my child become a Fluent Reader?
• Practice Sight Words Often!
-Write Sight Words on index cards and take them
with you to practice on the go.
• Read to your Child as much as possible and Encourage your
child to Read-Aloud often!!
-Read labels at the grocery store or have your
child read the labels to you.
-Let your child help you with a recipe at home by
reading the ingredients and directions aloud.
• Practice Shared Reading Activities with your child.
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• Get books that will interest or motivate your child to
read.
• Create a Poetry Notebook with your child.
-Children enjoy reading poems over and
over again. It can help give them the experience of
Fluent Reading.
• When singing familiar songs with your child, try and
get a copy of the song lyrics and have them ‘look’ at
the words as they sing.
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• Make a Reading Fluency Checklist to help your
child monitor his or her reading or that of others.
The Reading Fluency Checklist should include:
1. __ACCURACY: I can read words correctly.
2. __RATE: I can read not too fast and not too slow.
3. __EXPRESSION: I can read with feeling, and not
sound like a robot.
4. __PUNCTUATION: I follow most or all of the
punctuation marks as I read the text or passage.
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Model Good Reading Fluency and Not So Good
Reading Fluency with your child.
1. Read a short story or passage to your child, allowing
him or her to monitor your reading, using the Reading
Fluency Checklist. Model Good and Not So Good
Reading Fluency during this activity.
2. If possible, record or video your child reading.
Playback the recording or video, allowing your child to
monitor his or her reading, using the Reading Fluency
Checklist.
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Helpful Reading Websites
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ReadWords.org
ReadWriteThink.org
PBSParents.org
StoryIt.com
Starfall.com
PBSKids.org
Brainbridgeclass.com
Fun4thebrain.com
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Encouraging Your Child to be a
Good Reader
Engage your Child’s Imagination through Reading.
Read Books yourself and let your child see that you Love to
Read.
Visit the Library Often!
Choose Books on your Child’s Reading Level that you think will
Interest him or her.
Limit Television and Video Games.
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