Transcript Connecting With Kindergarten

Gail Felberbaum & Lisa Henkel
Language Arts Specialists
What is the Language Arts Block?
• Reading Workshop
• Writing Workshop
• Mixture of whole class, small group, and
individual conferences
• Word Work
• Interactive Read Aloud
• Shared Reading
• Interactive Writing
• Oral Language
• Comprehension
Loving to Read, Loving to Learn
• Reading is the foundation of a
successful education.
• When children struggle in learning to
read, they often struggle in other
subjects as well.
• Children learn to read and learn to love
reading….
What Do Emerging Readers Need?
• Understand Concepts About Print
• Look at picture(s) to gain meaning
• Identify letters and sounds
• Use reading strategies
• Look at beginning sounds in words
• Use picture + beginning sounds to obtain
meaning
• Recognize sight words
• Understand the story-Put it all together!
!
Parents Can Help With Reading
• Provide a routine time and comfortable area
for reading enjoyment
• Use rich language in conversation
• Read books with rhymes, poems, patterns
and songs
• Review word wall words (sight words)
Parents Can Help With Reading
• Read, read, and read some more
• Take a story or picture walk
• Ask children questions about what they are
learning in school
• Ask children questions about their reading
• Choose books that are interesting to your
child
What Do Emerging Writers Need?
• Form letters – upper and lower
• Scribble, draw, write
• Add details to pictures
• Label drawings
• Stretch sounds to write words
• Write sentences
• Write beginning, middle, end stories
Parents Can Help With Writing
• Use school letter formation chart
• Orally rehearse stories at home, in car
• Use sequence words; first, next, last
• Write stories together
• Make lists, labels, thank you cards
• Stretch out sounds in words
Helpful Websites
• www.Readingrockets.org
• NEA.org/readacross/parents.html
• Familyeducation.com
• Pbs.org/launchingreaders/ecards.html
• Readwritethink.org
• www.Starfall.com