1. Reading at Home Grade One
Vanessa – Welcome, Importance of reading, district benchmarks/strategies, word lists
Titus Elementary School
Thursday, September 6th

2. Lauren

3. Karen

4. Landon Learns to Read
Karen- While the video we are going to share with you speaks directly to a kindergartener or pre-k student, it shows us very good examples of what those early reading behaviors truly look like. What you will see is Luke’s attempt to use the picture to predict a word – he clearly knows that letters make up words and sometimes he even self corrects some of his predictions.
This is what early reading looks like. What “Gentle reminders” did you notice?

5. Reading at Home in 1st Grade
Reading bags/envelopes
Time frame
They can do it!
Using early strategies
Picture Support
3 ways we read
Karen
By now, many of your children have already started bringing home not one, but two separate reading bags to share books at home. These books should be what we call in school, “familiar” reads that children can read without any support from you. Their reading should only take about 5 minutes. We mention here that “they can do it” because we truly believe they can. Here are some things you should look for when they read with you:
*They can match words with what they say – and finger point along the way
*They can identify basic sight words in text
*They have an understanding of directionality
*They know when something has gone wrong – even if they can’t fix it on their own – they still know
Picture support is good! Just remember that in 1st grade – author’s put the pictures there for a reason – to help tell the story.
As part of our 1st grade Daily Five routine – all students are taught the three ways we read a book. When given time to independently read, they will do a little of each…

6. Central Bucks Leveled Books
Karen-
Students are taught to read through the use of leveled books. As the levels increase, as does the complexity of text.

7. Effective Language at home
My child gets stuck on a word.
My child reads very slowly or too quickly.
Does my child understand the story?
Make the first sound and look for something you know.
Listen to me read this page.
Ask a few questions:
^Who is in the story and where are they? ^What is the BIG problem?
^How are the characters trying to solve their problem? What are they doing?
^What happens at the end?
Do you see something you know?
Read this page with me.
Effective Language at home
Vanessa

8. District Benchmarks Time of Year Benchmark September Level 4 November
January
Level 10
March
Level 12
June
Level 18
District Benchmarks
Karen – show models of text

9. At Home Sight Word
Sam

10. Practice and Return

11. First Grade 411 Coming Up Next… Presented by: Lynda Costello
Jillian Maiese
Val W.W.
Coming Up Next…