1. Reading Tips for Parents
Imagine School at Town Center
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October 5, 2017

2. 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 ( ) 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

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

4. 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!

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Six Super Strategies
Question
Connect
Predict
Visualize
Infer
Conclude

9. 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?

10. Ideas to try!

12. Draw Conclusions

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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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.

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

20. 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.

21. 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

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

23. Let’s Review