1. Reading Development

2. Watch Me Grow
First you babble and then you talk You begin to crawl, before you walk And once you walk, you start to run And soon you'll find, to fly is fun.
  But as you soar, you have to know The things you need to help you grow And since this process can not be rushed You’ll have to wait – don’t be crushed!   Like learning to talk and walk and run Reading is supposed to be fun So don’t be worried if I can not read More time may be what I need to succeed   You can not run before you walk You have to babble before you talk And reading is the same indeed Time and patience is all I need.
  One day I will learn how to read And I may even take the lead But for now the process may be slow Just encourage me and watch me grow!   

3. Self Confidence Appreciation for reading Positive Relationships
The goal of Rotary Readers is to increase a student’s reading time and foster…
Self Confidence
Appreciation for reading
Positive Relationships

4. Your task…. Is NOT to: Teach a student to read
Be an inquisitor, taskmaster, tester or critic

5. Your task….
Is to:
Establish a positive relationship with the students your working with.
Encourage a LOVE of reading.
Be an adult friend who converses about text

6. Variation in amount of independent reading Anderson R. , Wilson P
Variation in amount of independent reading Anderson R., Wilson P., and Fielding I., Reading research quarterly, Vol. 3, 1988.”Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school.”
% Rank
Min./Day
Words/Yr 98
67.3
4,733,000 90
33.4
2,357,000 70
16.9
1,168,000 50
9.2
601,000 30
4.3
251,000 10
1.0
51,000 2
0.0
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7. Reading Stages
Stage 0: Reading Readiness/Pre Reading (Birth-Age 6) This stage is characterized by learning to recognize the alphabet, imitation reading, experimentation with letters, and learning the sounds associated with the letters.  

8. Stage 1: Initial Reading or Decoding (Age 6-7, Grades 1-2)  Children in this stage are beginning to utilize their  knowledge of consonants and vowels to blend  together simple words such  as c-a-t, b-a-t, etc...  This ability is an integral part of beginning reading.  Some children may need to go through this stage of sounding out longer than others.  Over time and with guidance, they will eventually move to reading whole words.  Patience is extremely important while child are moving from stage 1 to stage 2.

9. Confirmation and Fluency (Ages 7 - 8, Grades 2-3)
Stage 2
Confirmation and Fluency (Ages 7 - 8, Grades 2-3)
Children in this stage read stories with increasing fluency. Are learning to consolidate decoding, sight vocabulary, & meaning context to read stories and selections.

10. Stage 3 Reading to Learn (Age 9-13, Grades 3-8) Readers at this stage have mastered the code and find it easy to sound out unfamiliar words and read with fluency.  They are now ready to begin the study of subject matter and the use of informational text.

11. Five Components of Reading
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension

12. Readers who are thinkers!
Phonics
Words
Readers who are thinkers!
Sight words
Fluency
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Background
knowledge

13. Comprehension Making Connections/Schema Visualizing Inferring
Questioning
Determining importance
Synthesizing
Use “fix-up” strategies
Information compiled from Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis and
7 Keys to Comprehension How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! By Susan Zimmerman ad Chryse Hutchins

14. Behavior Tips Created by Kelly Sawyer
Small Group
Behavior Tips
Created by Kelly Sawyer

15. Get to Know You
Share some things about yourself (pets, siblings, what you like to read) Ask about them
Establish common interests
Explain why you are coming, what you plan on doing together
Building a relationship helps everyone feel connected as a small group.

16. Getting to know each other as Readers
Do you like to read? Why?
What do you like to read?
What books are you reading right now?
What is your favorite book?

17. Encouragement Be a good example “You try it.” “You can do this.”
“You are a good reader.”
“That was a smart thing to do when you came to that word.”
“You are really thinking like a reader!”

18. Confidentiality
Please remember not to discuss the students and honor their privacy

19. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James
THANK YOU!
YOU can make an impact!
Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.  ~William James