1. Helping Your Child Read Welcome Families!

2. Agenda 6:45-6:55Tips for Helping Your Child Read 7:00-7:10Literacy Station Rotation 1 7:10-7:20Literacy Station Rotation 2 7:20-7:30Literacy Station Rotation 3 7:30-7:40Wrap Up & Questions

3. Students who spend time reading at home do better in school. Greany (1980) Heyns (1978) Whalberg &Tsai (1984)

4. Reading At Home Reading Aloud (You read to your child.) Rereading (Your child reads to you.) Reading Together (You and your child read together.)

5. Reading Aloud Why?  Greater success in school  Improved listening skills  Better vocabulary and comprehension  More confidence about reading  Enjoyment!

6. Reading Aloud How?  Find a good book.  Find a comfortable place to read.  Read expressively.  Enjoy talking together about the book.

7. Rereading Repeated reading of familiar books is one of the most powerful strategies for helping struggling readers become successful readers. Reggie Routman in Conversations

8. Rereading  Poems  Little Books  Other Materials

9. Rereading  Automaticity Effortless Word Identification  Fluency Reading Smoothly Hook and Jones, 2002

10. Reading Together What do you do when your child encounters an unknown word?

11. Reading Together Questions to ask yourself: Is this the right book? Is my child monitoring his or her reading?

12. Monitoring Reading When your child is NOT monitoring:  Reading doesn’t make sense and your child keeps reading.  Reading doesn’t sound right grammatically and your child keeps reading.  The word your child says doesn’t look like the word on the page and your child doesn’t notice.  Your child skips words or adds words and doesn’t notice.

13. Monitoring Reading Does that make sense? Does that sound right? Does it look right?

14. What Can Parents Do?  Give wait time.  Praise efforts.  Praise self corrections.  Value partially correct responses.  Read difficult books to your child.

15. Children must practice literacy skills beyond the school day to become firm and automatic with their literacy. Clark (1989)

16. Any questions? Thank you for attending!