Reading Tips for Parents Imagine School at Town Center We personalize success! October 5, 2017

Reading is Thinking Check Understanding Build Fluency Sense It Ask Questions Reading is Thinking Connect To Text Making Inferences Draw Conclusions Decide What is Important Throughout this school year (2003-2004) we will continue to focus on reading and these reading strategies. We will feature a reading strategy each month. Buildings will receive a new Power point presentation for that strategy. They will be designed to share at staff meetings, department meetings, or grade level meetings. Expand Vocabulary Summarize Synthesize Predict and Prove

True or False Undertaking a few simple reading strategies can make a significant difference in helping students develop into good readers.

TRUE Putting a few simple strategies into action will make a significant difference in helping students develop into good readers. Through reading aloud, providing print materials, and promoting positive attitudes about reading you can have a powerful impact on students literacy and learning!

Essential Reading Skills at Imagine Town Center Demonstrate the ability to read and understand text. Summarize key points of text distinguishing factual from non- factual and literal from inferential Interpret significant ideas and themes including those conveyed through figurative language and use of symbols. Follow instructions from informational or technical text to perform a task

Fake Reading Fake reading occurs when students read the words, but do not do any thinking. They may read an entire page, chapter, or novel and not remember a single thing that they read.

Critical Thinking Reflect on what you have read by: How does the material relate to your own experience Reflect on what you have read by: Restating Rereading Using Context Clues Make a connection Stop and think Reflect Retell

Six Super Strategies Question Connect Predict Visualize Infer Conclude

Five Ws and an H Who is it about? What happened? When did it take place? Where did it take place? Why did it happen? How did it happen?

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Draw Conclusions

Comprehension Strategies During & After Summarize Evaluate After Draw Conclusions Before, During & After Survey Think Aloud

Expand Vocabulary The larger the readers vocabulary either orally or in print the easier it is to make sense of the text. The National Reading Panel goes on to say vocabulary is important because beginning readers use their oral vocabulary to make sense of the words they see in print. Readers must know what most of the words mean before they can understand what they are reading.

Vocabulary in Context Often you can make a good guess at what a new word means from its context. Context clues also make clear the intended meaning of a word that has more than one meaning. Examples: The truck drivers strike stopped all deliveries. - work stoppage The winning pitcher threw one strike after another. – batter could not get a hit hit

Build Fluency Fluency is important because it frees students to understand what they read. Fluent readers are able to read orally with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. Fluency is one of several critical factors necessary for reading comprehension.

Star Reading and Math Why Star? The only way to know whether learning is taking place is to measure it. You can identify students who need help. Analyze problems Set learning goals Determine instructional effectiveness Determine the effectiveness of interventions provided

What is Renaissance Learning? A leading provider of technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs for K12 schools. Used to accelerate learning and help students master the Florida State Standards and achieve higher test scores on state tests.

Types of Scores Scaled Score (SS) The most important score reported Fundamental measure used to see growth over time

Reading Strategies Reading strategies tend to be introduced independently. Readers rarely use these strategies in isolation when reading. These thoughts interact and intersect to help readers make meaning and often occur simultaneously during reading. These strategies are not something that can be taught on Monday and tested on Friday. They must be interwoven throughout ALL curricular areas. The strategies are introduced, modeled, and supported - Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Homework Tips on Reading Listen to your child read and correct mistakes. Ask the 5 Ws and an H Review the Six Super Strategies Review Reading Comprehension Strategies Visit the public library Use what you have learned tonight

The purpose of reading is understanding. Connection Reading IS Thinking! The purpose of reading is understanding.

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