1. WELCOME PARENTS نرحب بالاهالي TO FIFTH GRADE PARENT MEETING Mrs. Gartha and Ms. Habhab

2. THE MORE THAT YOU READ, THE MORE THINGS YOU WILL KNOW. THE MORE THAT YOU LEARN, THE MORE PLACES YOU’LL GO. ---DR. SEUSS Why Reading?

3. Agenda CCSS DRA/MEAP/SRI Results Your Child’s Level How Can You Help Your Child? CAFÉ Strategies Links To Learning.com Tumblebooks

4. READY, SET, READ! How fast can I read and still understand what I am reading? Text should be at your child’s level. Use the timer on your cell phone! Read for 1 minute and mark spot where you stopped after 1 minute. Re-read it again for 1 minute and see if you increased the number of words you read.

5. Today We Will Learn: CONTENT OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate comprehension of some café strategies to help their reading skills by using different graphic organizers. LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES :STUDENTS AND PARENTS WILL DISCUSS AND PRACTICE READING COMPREHENSION STARTEGIES USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.

6. CAFÉ MENU TRANSITIONAL READERS COMPREHENSHION Use prior knowledge to connect with text Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm Infer and support with evidence Make a picture or mental image Monitor and fix up: check for understanding /back up and reread Ask questions throughout the reading process Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features) Summarize text; include sequence of main events Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text Recognize literacy elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution, theme) Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships Compare and contrast within and between text ACCURACY Abundant easy reading Look carefully at letters and words Cross checking… do the pictures and/or words look right? Do they sound right? Do they make sense? Flip the sound Use the pictures… do the words and pictures match? Use beginning and ending sounds Blend sounds; stretch and reread Chunk letters and sounds together Skip the word, then come back Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense Recognize words at sight FLUENCY Voracious reading Read appropriate- level texts that are a good fit Reread text Practice common sight words and high- frequency words Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.) Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling EXPAND VOCABULARY Voracious reading Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams Use word parts to determine the meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations, etc.) Ask someone to define the word for you Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools

7. READING UPDATES مستجدات في برنامج القراءة BOOK BAGS حقيبة القراءة READING LOGS جدول القراءة DRA/SRI امتحان القراءة COMMON CORE STANDARDS-ELA منهاج الولايات في اللغة والتعبير

8. Why Are Academic Standards Important? Academic standards are important because they help ensure that all students, no matter where they live, are prepared for success in college and the workforce. Standards provide an important first step- a clear roadmap for learning for teachers, parents, and students. Having clearly defined goals helps families and teachers work together to ensure that students succeed. They also will help your child develop critical thinking skills that will prepare him or her for college and career.

9. What Your Child Will Be Working on in 5 th Grade Summarizing the key details of stories, dramas, poems, and nonfiction materials, including their themes or main ideas. Identifying and judging evidence that supports particular ideas in an author’s argument to change a reader’s point of view.

10. What Your Child Will Be Working on in 5 th Grade Integrating information from several print and digital sources to answer questions and solve problems. Building knowledge of academic words with an emphasis on those that signal a contrast in ideas or logical relationships, such as on the other hand, similarly, and therefore

11. What Your Child Will Be Working on in 5 th Grade Coming to classroom discussions prepared, then engaging fully with others ( e.g., contributing accurate, relevant information; elaborating on the remarks of others; synthesizing ideas) Reporting on a topic or presenting an opinion with his or her own words, logical sequence of ideas, sufficient facts and details, and formal English when appropriate.

12. Beginning and End of Year Reading Benchmarks 5 th Grade 1 st November 2 nd January 3 rd March 4 th June Exceeding (1) 60646870 Meeting (2) 50525660 Progressing (3) 444850 Concern (4) 40

13. Current Reading Levels Fall 2013 Exceeding (1) 16 Meeting (2) 14 Progressing (3) 0 Concern (4) 14

14. MEAP READING RESULTS Performance Level 2 Passing 3 Not Proficient 4 Not Proficient 23113

15. MODEL THE STRATEGY RETELLING A FICTION OR NON-FICTION STORY ORALLY. اعادة سرد الاحداث في القصة واستعمال الاسئلة

16. What is a summary? When I summarize, I write in my own words the important things I have read. In fiction, include beginning, middle, and end. In non-fiction, include the important facts.

17. Summary Examples: Summary Examples:

18. MODEL THE STRATEGY جسد الاسلوب WRITING A SUMMARY تلخيص الاحداث في القصة

19. MODEL THE STRATEGY USING NONFICTION/EXPOSITORY TEXT FEATURES استعمال مكونات النص المعلوماتي لتعزيز الاستيعاب HOW DOES THIS STRATEGY HELP YOU UNDERSTAND SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES? كيف تساعد هذا الاسلوب في العلوم والاجتماعيات؟