Evamere Literacy Night 2014

1. Evamere Literacy Night 2014

2. Introduction to Literacy • Reading is developmental • Primary purpose of reading is to acquire meaning • Writing is developmental • Primary purpose of writing is to convey meaning • We read and write for a variety of purposes • Both fiction and non-fiction First graders need to develop a love of reading and writing!

3. Literacy Expectations • Increased amount of time writing across curriculum • Connect reading and writing • Authentic and Meaningful purposes • Increase in the amount of non-fiction

4. Evamere Library Joanne Meszaros Library website: http://www.hudson.k12.oh.us/domain/795 INFOhio username: hudson password: exp

5. First Grade Reading Assessments • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS) • Letter Naming Fluency • Phoneme Segmentation Fluency • Nonsense Word Fluency • Oral Reading Fluency • Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) • Accuracy and Comprehension • Fry Word List – sight words • How we use this information

6. Word wall Word Study Big books and literature sets Poetry notebook Anchor Charts Responding to reading Writing Workshop Guided Reading Partner Reading Read Aloud Shared Reading Reading Intervention Readers’ Theatre Balanced literacy in the classroom

7. Writing Workshop/Reading Workshop • Writing! • Genres: • Narrative • Informative • Opinion • Conferences with the teacher and other students • Reading! • Daily 5 – Independent and partner reading activities • Conferences and small groups with the teacher

8. Cueing System • Meaning Cues • What makes sense? • Look at the picture • Structure • Does it sound right? • Visual • Phonics, letter sounds

9. Reading Strategies • Using the cueing strategies to predict text • Look at the picture • Say the first sound or get your mouth ready • Read ahead to attend to meaning • Break apart or look for a known part of the word • Self-monitoring • Recognizing when reading does not sound right, look right, or make sense • Self-correcting • Cross checking • Integrating 2 or 3 cues to solve “tricky part”

10. Fluency • Accuracy • Speed - appropriate rate • Expression and phrasing • The point of fluency is that it leads to comprehension!

11. Comprehension Strategies • Proficient readers use 8 main comprehension strategies while reading • Make connections • Visualize • Ask questions • Infer • Determine importance in non-fiction • Synthesize • Monitor Understanding • Use fix-up strategies

12. Vocabulary • Aids in comprehension • Taught both explicitly in content areas non-fiction and acquired through inferring words in text • This should be fun • Gather and collect words through home experiences to use in literacy

13. READ at home • Listen to your child read • Read to your child • Read together • Echo and Paired Reading • Retell stories and talk about books • Work with words-Fry word Phrases

14. WRITE at home • Keep a journal or write notes • Have supplies handy for making books or writing stories • Help your child stretch sounds • Phonetic spelling is okay! Help them look for patterns • Tell/write stories and non-fiction with details and using rich vocabulary

15. READ! WRITE! • Model reading • Read and write for practical purposes • Create a positive reading and writing environment in your home • Have fun!