Reading & Math Parent Night

1. Reading & Math Parent Night Presented by Mrs. Kissell & Mrs. Pettit

2. Accountability: How do you know your child is REALLY reading? • We know that in order for students to become better readers, they must read! • Set them up for success by doing some pre-reading activities: • Scan a book and then talk about what you saw. Create a schema into which they can place the information they read about. • Talk about vocabulary words, provide examples of how to use them in a sentence. • Engage your child by providing them with a clear purpose for reading. I can sit here all day like this and those suckers think I’m reading!

3. Engaging your child at Home • BIG IDEA: Posing a question or challenge about the story provides your child with a purpose for reading. • QUESTION: In chapter 1 of Freckle Juice when Andrew is talking to Sharon, her tongue reminds him of something. When you finish the chapter and find the answer come tell me what it is! • QUESTION: You know, when I was looking through chapter 1, I noticed a word on page 13 that described Sharon’s reaction to Andrew not being able to find his place. Come act out that reaction to me once you’ve read about it!

4. Different types of reading you can do with your child • Choral: reading in unison • Echo: the learner echoes a skilled reader • Turn taking (paragraph for paragraph or page for page) • Re-reading for fluency and comprehension

5. Why choral read? • Provides support and practice for students before they read on their own • You can model fluency • Improves ability to read sight words THIS IS GOOD: • For patterned or predictable books • For shorter books • At the independent level of the reader We read together! We read together!

6. Why Echo Read? • Echo reading helps learners: • Gain confidence in reading aloud • Learn sight words • Read material that might be too difficult to read on their own • Practice proper phrasing and expression THIS IS GOOD: • When something needs to be read aloud (reports, poems, performances) • Help learners read material that is too difficult for them to read on their own.

7. ECHO READING HINTS: • Read a sentence aloud with fluency and expression • Have the learner track with their finger while you are reading

8. Turn Taking • Alternate reading paragraphs or pages. • Good way to motivate learners to read a longer text. • With advanced readers you can take on character roles and read the dialogue in a story.

9. Re-Reading: Once is NOT enough! • Re-reading is a crucial part of the reading process • Good readers will reread a piece several times until they are satisfied they know it. • 3 times is a great number to go by!

10. Websites & Resources • Visual Phonics Videos • Starfall and Tumblebooks – for early readers • DIBELS • Reading Rockets • Finding books on your child’s reading level

11. Singapore Math • Big Ideas

12. What Does This Mean for the Classroom? • Concrete, Pictoral, Abstract • Decomposing Numbers • Mental Math • Math Facts • Automaticity vs. Mastery • Single Digit Addition and Subtraction

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