Welcome to L.E.A.P Parent Night December 9 th, 2013

Welcome-Meet the Teacher and Para’s Denelle Victoria VanWatermulen Anne Lynette (1 st Reading)

What is Leap?  Learning to Enhance Academic Performance The goal of this program is to provide additional help to students who may struggle in their general classroom. We provide small group reading and math support to students who are referred by the classroom teacher.

Reading We use the Leveled Literacy Intervention Curriculum. Students work on phonics, fluency, and comprehension at their reading level. The goal is to get them up to grade level and then they will be dismissed.

What is Fluency?  Fluency is the ability to read a text easily without stopping to figure out unknown words.  Fluency is made up of four parts: 1.Accuracy- Reading Words Correctly 2.Rate- The speed at which the student reads. 3.Expression- Using emotion, pausing at punctuation, and empathizes bolded or important words. 4.Comprehension- Does the students understand what they read?

Fluency Strategies  Rereading- Reread the same book in more than one way will help students with their fluency. (Fluency Tic-Tac-Toe)  Repeated Reading- You read a sentence, both you and student read sentence together, then student reads sentence on their own.  Books on tape or cd- Students can follow along in a book and listen to someone modeling good fluency.

Comprehension Strategies  Before Reading- Ask students to picture walk the book, make a prediction about what they think will happen.  During Reading- Ask them questions about what is happening as they are reading, what they think will happen next.  After Reading- Ask them questions about their reading. Who was in the story, What was it about (beginning, middle, and end), and When and Where did it take place.

Math Strategies-  Touch Math- Students touch the numbers to add and subtract.  Tally Marks for multiplication to represent groups and to help them count easier.  Scrabble Math- Have students build words and make addition math problems to add them up.  Cooking- Practice Measuring and Fractions  Practice math facts daily for 5 minutes at home.

Touch Math- Touch Points Each numeral from 1 through 9 has Touch Points corresponding to the digit's value. Numerals 1 through 5 have single Touch Points Numerals 6 through 9 have double Touch Points As students count the Touch Points, they associate numerals with real values. They learn that a numeral (3, for instance) is not just a squiggle on a page. It represents a quantity such as three apples, three ladybugs, three buttons or three Touch Points.

Touch Math- Addition

Touch Math- Subtraction

Math Cont.  Tally Marks-

Questions?