1. Reader’s Rock Reading Night Timrod Elementary November 15, 2011

2. Presented by Allison Middleton and Melissa Steele

3. Read every day! Stop when you make a mistake and use these strategies… Read the way you talk! Think about what you’re reading!

4. Before reading a new book, you should take a picture walk to help you start thinking about the story. Then when you get to a hard part, you can check the picture for help. As your child reads, he or she needs to be thinking about the story. If he or she cannot tell you about the story or answer questions, then your child is just calling words and not really reading for meaning. Use the Pictures Think About the Story

5. For beginning readers this would be just the first letter, but for more advanced readers they could make the sound of the first few letters. Many times just making the beginning sound and going back to reread the sentence will give the child an idea of what the unknown word is. Get Your Mouth Ready When your child makes the first sound and rereads, he or she is going back for a running start. Any time a child has to stop and work, they need to go back and reread. Any time you tell a child a word, they should repeat the word, then go back and reread the entire sentence so they get the meaning back in their head. Go Back For a Running Start and Reread

6. Many new words are made from parts of words your child already knows. Your child needs to look for parts of words they know and use them to get words they don’t know. Chunk It By Looking For a Part You Know inside yesterday attention detective

7. When readers have checked the picture, gotten their mouth ready, looked for chunks and reread, they must… Make a Guess! Make a Guess Does your guess look right? Does your guess make sense and sound right? Check it!

8. When your child hesitates before an unknown word, WAIT and watch to see how s/he attempts to solve the new word. If your child solves or attempts a strategy, PRAISE! If no response, provide HELP with the following strategies. After trying strategies and still unsuccessful, TELL them the word. Wait Praise Help Tell

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