Working with Young readers

What to Expect…  Participant updates and Q&A since last meeting, meet the presenter  Ages and stages of reading and writing  Getting to know your students  Phonics  Fluency  Word Work: site words & word families  Meaning Making  Case Study Scenarios

Checking In  Updates:  Meet the presenter

Ages and Stages of Reading and Writing  Emergent Readers  Beginning Reader  Developing Readers  Fluent Readers  Writing Development

What happens as we grow as readers  Spoken Language  Awareness of words  Awareness of syllables, onsets-rimes  Awareness of phonemes  Written Language  Concepts about print (print awareness)  Letter names and shapes These begin to merge, and then Sound/Spelling Correspondence, Chunks within words, and Automatic Word Recognition Occurs.

Getting to know your students  Developing relationships  Understanding the roadblocks  Quick Checks

Early Literacy  Print Awareness  Letter Knowledge  Phonological Awareness- think sounds  *** Not linear- all are happening at the same time!

Phonics  Phonics = connecting sounds (phonological awareness) with symbols (letters)  Encoding  Decoding

Word Work  Sight words  Building words- CVC Words  Word Families

Fluency The ability to read with expression, appropriate speed, and accuracy. A great indicator of a student’s reading proficiency and ability to comprehend.

Meaning Making  What is comprehension?  Story structure  Beginning Middle End  Story Elements  Inference

Quick Checks   Watch a teacher quickly check a student’s fluency- notice the conversations she has before and after she listens to the child read.  3/2-3Fluency_3.pdf 3/2-3Fluency_3.pdf  Your turn!

Homework- typical amounts  Kindergarten min  First min  Second min  Third- 30 – 40 min  Fourth min  Fifth min  In addition- most students must read a designated amount of time each day

Where can I find out what my student needs to do?  Take home folder  Agenda  Teacher’s website

Supporting independent reading  Ask questions-  What do you see in your mind?  What do you remember from what you read?  Can you retell what you read?  Can you summarize it?

Ways to engage reluctant readers  I read, you read  Books on tape  Interest books  Reading challenges  Technology- We give books, RAZ kids, Reading A- Z etc..

Integrating Literacy Into Science and Social Studies  Practice reading like a historian, scientist, archeologist etc..  Set a purpose  Genre cues and clues

Typical Homework You Might See and How to Approach It  Words Their Way Sort 

Typical Homework You Might See and How to Approach It  Reading journal 

Resources  mergent-readers-look-thats-my-letter mergent-readers-look-thats-my-letter  arget arget  educators/sca.asp educators/sca.asp