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Home Reading Helping Families to Support Their Children http://helpingchildren.ezabu.com/2009/05/17/be-a-great-role-model/&usg=___gUoOhmUTICIZI4EAHYsPqPQ2eY=&h=682&w=1024&sz=155&hl=en&start=31&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=mbk58zVDJgeyDM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchildren%2Breading%26start%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=RbVVTbCnD5SosQP-17GpBQ
The Kindergarten Home Reading Program • Every Thursday your child will bring a special reading book home with them • These books are for the students to read to you • They should read this book to you once a day and at the end of the week you are to record your feedback on the reading log • Every Wednesday the reading package comes back to school
Do Nots: • Leave your child alone to read the book to themselves • Read the booktoyour child • Let them struggle alone over words • Leave the book outside of the ziplock bag when not being read • Send the reading package to school on days other than Wednesdays
Dos • Make your home reading time a special and cherished time • Display your own excitement and enthusiasm with reading • Model and encourage one to one finger tracking • Have your child start reading with the title • Give prompts when they are stuck on a word • If he/she has unsuccessfully tried the word several times give them the word • Praise their efforts!
What is a “Picture Walk”? • Done the first time reading the book • Look at the cover and predict (wonder out loud) what the book will be about • Starting at the beginning have your child turn the pages of the book and tell you what they see in the pictures • If they are stuck use prompting questions • Ask leading questions to identify difficult words in the story • Encourage them to connect the pictures instead of listing individual items • Encourage and praise their comments and predictions
Reading Strategies • Look for picture clues • Try using the beginning letter sounds • Sound the word out: blend, don’t fragment! • Look to see if there are any parts of the words they know (little words inside of big words) • Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence then come back to the word. • Ask “Does that word make sense?”
Decoding is when your child deciphers the word and can read it out loud • Comprehension is when your child understands what he/she has read • Some children can decode many levels higher than they can comprehend • Reading is when a child can both decode and comprehend adequately
How do I know my childis really comprehending? • With the book closed ask what happened in the story. • Can he/she recall what happened in sequence? • Does he/she refer to the characters by names or does he/she use pronouns? • Can he/she give the beginning, middle and end of the story? • Does he/she recall details? • Can they do this things with 2 or less prompting questions? www.usd231.com/webschools/Page_Images/5/ParentChildReading.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.usd231.com/webschools/Forms/SubPage.aspx%3Fmenu%3D5_612&usg=__XGlSWcXb6pG_LV5LXhiWczl7epQ=&h=1024&w=1024&sz=192&hl=en&start=19&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=91r92QWV3_vR7M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchildren%2Breading%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=nKtVTc4Cj_qzA7Tj2aMFText
Comprehension Continued... • Talk about the book: • What did you like? • What did it make you think of? • What was your favourite part? http://www.saidaonline.com/en/newsgfx/reading%20to%20children-saidaonline.jpg
My child has mastered the book, now what? • Look for words: • Can you point to the word ‘dog’? • Can you point to a word that has 3 letters? • Can you point to a word that begins with the letter ‘d’? • Can you point to word that ends with the letter ‘g’? • Can you point to a word that rhymes with ‘bat’? • Count how many times a word appears in the book.
Should I do anything else to support their reading? development? • Continue to read pictures books to/with your child • Visit the library.....often! • Read on the run: signs, packaging, grocery lists, etc. • Educational Websites eg. Starfall.com • Have fun!
‘Kid Writing’ http://wwcsd.net/~ormondk/images/MVC-566Frs.jpg
What is “Kid Writing” • Kid Writing (Inventive Spelling) is when a child writes down a word by using the letter sounds they identify in the word
Why not focus on spelling? • When they have to worry about spelling, they become fearful what they are writing down is wrong, this causes frustration, frustration leads to avoidance and negative feelings towards writing • Focus on spelling will happen later in their literacy development
How does it work? • Initially you model to your child how to sound the word out • Elongate the word. DO NOT fragment • Have your child say it with you • Gradually have them do this more and more independently
continued.... • What’s the first letter sound you hear? • What do you hear after that? • Continue to work through all the sounds in the word.
Examples • Initially they might hear only 1 or 2 letters in the word • Vowels are hardest to identify • Might also add additional letters “I picked a pumpkin. I see a rainbow.”
What’s your role? • Be close by to help them sounding • Scribe below their writing • Ask “Tell me about what you’ve written” vs. “What does that say?” • Remind about finger spaces • Remind about periods at the end of a sentence • Remind about using an upper case letter at the start if the sentence • Praise and encourage their efforts!
The most important goal is for your child to see themselves as readers and writers!
