Transcript How can parents support their child`s literacy?

How can parents
support their
child’s literacy?
Supporting Children’s Learning
• Why are parents important in education?
• Important areas in Reading Research –
the “five pillars”
• How does reading develop and improve?
• How/why students struggle with reading
• Strategies for reading improvement
Building Blocks of Reading
Reading Ability
Reading Readiness
Talk
Listen
Read
Print
Phonemic Awareness
A Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in
a spoken word.
Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear,
identify, and manipulate the individual
sounds in spoken words.
• cat – how many phonemes?/c/ /a/ /t/
• cake – how many phonemes? /c/ /a/ /k/
• manipulating sounds
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Beginning sounds - bat /b/ ….
Ending sounds - bat /t/
Rhyming /b/ /a/ /t/ … /c/ /a/ /t/
Hearing syllables – clapping, etc.
How can I work on phonemic
awareness at home?
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Rhyming
Nursery Rhymes
Dr. Seuss books
Poems
Songs
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http://www.readingrockets.org/helping/target/phonol
ogicalphonemic
Phonics
Phonics is the predictable relationship
between phonemes (sounds) and
graphemes (letters).
• Systematic and explicit instruction
– Connecting sounds to symbols
– Consonants and vowels
– Combinations and patterns
• Assists in decoding efforts to make
reading less of a struggle
How can I work on
phonics at home?
• Help your child learn the letters of
the alphabet and the sounds the
letters make
• Review the spelling test phonics
skill of the week
• Ask the teacher to send home the
decodable reader they are
working on that week and
practice them with your child
Sight words
• Sight word are words that
cannot be fully decoded
using phonics rules
because all or part of the
word “breaks the rule”
• Examples: of, said, one
• Most need to be
memorized
How can I work on sight
words at home?
• Practice spelling them and reading them
instead of sounding them out
• Write them on sticky notes and post them
around the house (on the fridge, on the
mirror in the bathroom)
• Use multisensory activities to practice
spelling and reading the sight words (as they
spell the word they write the letters)
– Writing them in shaving cream
– Tracing them in sand or on a bumpy surface
– Build the words with playdoh
Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read a text
accurately, quickly, and with
expression.
• Bridges word recognition and
comprehension.
• Different than speed reading.
• Changes with stage of development,
familiarity with words, amount of
practice
How can I work on
fluency at home?
– Modeling good reading, read to your child and let
them listen to what reading with expression sounds
like. Show them how you pause at punctuation
marks and change your voice depending on what is
going on in the story.
– Repeated reading, have them reread a short story
or poem a couple of times. Funny poems are great
for this because children love reading them!
– Choral reading (I read, we read you read) Read a
part to your child, then have them read that same
part with you, then have them read it to you on their
own
Vocabulary
Vocabulary: the words we use and
understand in reading, listening, and
writing. We have a harder time reading
and understanding those words whose
meaning we do not know.
– oral – speaking and listening
– reading – recognize in print
• Sometimes taught directly through word
learning strategies like dictionary, word lists
and parts, context clues
• However, most vocabulary is learned
indirectly through everyday experiences
– talking, listening, reading
– repeated exposure to words – read, write, say
How can I work on
vocabulary at home?
• Read books that are above your
child’s independent reading level
to your child. This will expose them
to vocabulary they can’t access
independently yet
• Stop while you’re reading and
explain unfamiliar words mean,
make connections to words they
already know
Comprehension
Comprehension is understanding what we read. It’s the
reason for reading.
Good readers think when they read:
– Purposeful – know why they are reading
– Use background knowledge – decode, recall, compare
– Active – think while reading
Monitor comprehension and use strategies
– Identify where the difficulty occurs
– Identify what the difficulty is
– Restates in own words
– Look back through text
– Look forward for info that helps resolve difficulty
– Able to use graphic organizers
– Able to ask and answer questions
– Use prior knowledge, predict and summarize
How can I work on
comprehension at home?
• Ask questions before during and
after reading… who are the
characters, what is the problem,
what do they think will happen
next?
• Help them make connections from
the book to themselves, other books
they’ve read or their background
knowledge (text-text, text-self, textworld)
Story Map
Main
Characters
Problem of the story
A story event
Another story event
How the problem is solved
The ending
Setting
Parent’s Role in Reading
• Provide support
• Read and have your child read – get them
thinking and talking
• Help them find interesting sources of
reading
• Visit the library and other places – give
them background knowledge
• Don’t make reading time at home a chore:
be positive - “Now we get to read” instead
of “You have to get your reading done.”
• Read, read, read…
Emergent Reader Library
• What is it?
• How can I use it?
Website
• Access through Chandler Website,
Teacher Pages, Kristin Thomas or
Kellie Holden
• http://www.duxbury.k12.ma.us/Do
main/432
Online resources for
parents
http://www.readingrockets.org/
http://www.maketaketeach.com/
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
Resources for kids
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.softschools.com/
language_arts/phonics/
http://
www.familylearning.org.uk/p
honics_games.html
Check out the reading
website for even more links
Questions?