Gladstone School Winnipeg School Division presents

1. 1 Gladstone School Winnipeg School Divisionpresents Reading for the Love of It! An Evening Conference for Parents Be the Best that You Can Be with Literacy! February 11, 2010 Investing in the Future

2. Presenter Carol Hryniuk-Adamov M.Ed. Certified Reading Clinician Child Guidance Clinic Winnipeg School Division Winnipeg South Unit Winnipeg,Manitoba

3. 3 Welcome to All of you! It gives us great pleasure to see all of you parents, grandparents, caregivers and teachers here tonight to talk about literacy You are so important to your children! Your presence tonight is significant! You show how much you care by coming out on this special February night to celebrate literacy!

4. 4 Celebrating the United Nations Decade for Literacy The United Nations UNESCO asks that we work to promote literacy throughout the world Together we can make a difference. Our Motto at Gladstone is: Be the Best You Can Be With Literacy!

5. 5 To Celebrate I Love to Read Month! Manitoba Reading Association and member councils sponsor �I Love to Read Month� every February We take time to celebrate the power of literacy in our lives Our Goal in Manitoba is to have every Manitoban be a literate Manitoban

6. 6 �Reading for the Love of It�This Year�s Theme Reading to your children is the best gift you can give your children. Share your love of reading. Read to your children every day for 15 minutes. Have fun. Be joyful as they read. This will launch learning for a lifetime! Tonight we will talk about Why? When? What? How? We should read for the love of it.

7. 7 Make it Fun! Read often to your child and have fun. Snuggle when you read. Don�t skip your regular reading time. Read and reread stories requested by children. Enjoy the illustrations. Talk about the authors and illustrators of the books you read. Be patient while your child is reading aloud. Always find something positive to say.

8. 8 Why Read Everyday? Reading develops language. Reading builds new words and sentence patterns. This will help them read more in school. Children learn new things/concepts about the world. You are building background knowledge and experiences.

9. 9 Help Children Bond with Books! You are getting closer to your children as you read. This is a special time to bond with children and books. They know how important reading is to you if you make the time to read. You are a real role model when you read to them. Children learn to read by reading. READ, READ, READ to SUCCEED

10. 10 Remember your Fondest Memory Of Reading with a Family Member Turn and Talk to Your Neighbour Tell your favourite memory of reading with a family member. Tell them why that time was so special. My fond memory was: My Mom coming home from work but always making the time to read to me.

11. 11 Who Taught You To Write? What was the first thing you ever wrote with a family member? Was it a letter? A card? I remember writing a letter with my Dad at the age of 4. I could not write anything yet and he was going to teach me..... So I could go to school.

12. 12 Reading Aloud Trains the Mind:Reading is Thinking Reading aloud helps children think along as you read They learn to listen for longer periods of time They enjoy the sounds and rhythm of the language When they read in English, they see how print works. They learn the letters of the alphabet. They track how print goes from left to right in English

13. 13 Reading Trains the Mind They learn how sounds and letters go together They love when you read favourite rhymes and stories, over and over again They may memorize the stories and information This will help them later to read harder books

14. 14 What Can We Read?When Do We Read? Children will bring books home for home reading Home reading is very important homework. We need to return the books the next day. Other families need the books. Keep them by the door. We need to read stories (fiction) and non-fiction/ expository or informational books for pleasure and for information

15. 15 What Do We Need to Read?Everything in Our Environment Signs and labels in our neighbourhood and house Rhymes, chants, songs in first and second languages Poetry �nonsense poems and serious poems Wordless picture books �We read the pictures Predictable books �Patterns repeat Cumulative stories �The Turnip Maps, charts when we are on a road trip Novels- for school and pleasure

16. 16 What More Can We Read? Notes, messages, letters �involve children Folktales �Tell your culture�s tales Myths and legends �Share your myths and legends Writing by students and teachers Newspapers, magazines, pamphlets Mysteries �series like Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys have made a comeback Joke books, riddles, comic books, plays Graphic novels- they look like comics

17. 17 How Can We Read? We can read aloud to children Children can read to us We can read together in a choral read We can take turns reading pages I read a line, you read a line I read and leave out a word for the child to fill in Give children a chance to read, count five seconds so they will try the word on their own before you give the word

18. 18 Choosing a Just Right Book CHOOSING A BOOK Children need to practise reading books that are just right for them. Teachers will send these books home for practice. Too Hard. If the child makes too many mistakes per page, it may be too difficult and frustrating. The child may need an easier book to read. HOWEVER, if the story and ideas seem very interesting to him/her, take turns reading or read the book aloud to the child.

19. 19 Just Right Just Right. Ask your child to read silently for several pages, then ask, "Please tell me what you have just read," with the book closed. If your child can give you a brief idea of what the story is about, then he/she is reading and understanding the materials. If the child cannot understand or recall the information/story, stop more often to talk about what you have read. If you are worried about your child�s reading, please talk to the teacher.

20. 20 Where Can We Read? This Month Visit The Library as It is: One of the most best places to take children for a visit Free for Winnipeg citizens Has something for everyone Has magazines Has computers to use A great place for projects and for studying Make friends with librarians. The Librarians can help to children to do research and Inquiry. Make this your home away from home

21. 21 When Do We Read at Home? We read with children as we do our daily jobs with children at our side We can make a grocery list together after we read the flyers We read in the store to find the best deals We read recipes, when we cook, bake or make even simple Jell-O and Kraft Dinner We read when we build or fix things together in doing crafts and hobbies

22. 22 Where Else Can WE Read? EVERYWHERE! We all have our favourite places to read Where is yours?

23. 23 Phrases to Encourage Children �The following are statements you can use to help encourage your child while he/she is reading. I like the way you tried to help yourself. Good for you! I saw you checking the word with the picture to see if you were right. I like the way you worked out the hard part. I noticed you tried _____ when you had trouble. Good for you. That�s what good readers do.

24. 24 Phrases to Encourage I noticed you paused before you read right here (point). After you paused, you read the word correctly. Great! You should be happy with your efforts and skills. I love the way you read this sentence with feeling. You are reading with lots of expression. Good for you. .

25. 25 What Can We Do to Help Our Children Understand What They Read ? Build background knowledge Ask them what they already know. Help to understand what they read Prepare your children for something new Link new information with something they know Talk, do some research, prepare for a road trip

26. 26 Predict-Help Children Make Predictions Guessing is Encouraged Look at the pictures and the title Think- what will this be about? Make some good predictions or guesses Teach your child to be like a reading detective and look for good clues in pictures and words At first the guesses may incorrect Over time the children get really good at predicting They pay closer attention to pictures, word clues, to what characters have said and done

27. 27 The More Children Read the Better You Get Reading gets better with practice The more practice we have, the easier it gets The Matthew Effect The good readers get better and the weak readers avoid reading and cannot get better We need to read a great deal to read fluently with expression, phrasing and paying attention to punctuation The more we read, the smoother we get, the better we may understand

28. 28 Take Time to Talk-Before During and After-BDA We need to talk about the book cover, title and pictures BDA-before we read, during reading and after reading. Before reading we look at the title, pictures and predict what it will be about. We ask questions. During the reading, we will talk about what is happening. We ask more questions. We predict what will happen next. We start to make connections. After reading, we think about what happened in the story. We make more connections. We talk about what we liked about the book and how it touches us.

29. 29 Making ConnectionsText- to-Self We make text- to- self connections. We think how the book connects to our own life. What does it remind you of in your life? Remember the time we...... It reminds me of the time you..... This helps children to remember the new ideas by making connections to what we already know. Each new idea links to another like a necklace. We make learning links.

30. 30 Making Connections Text-to-Text We make connections to other books and movies, and conversations or talks we have had. Text is not just a book anymore. We compare the story to other versions of the same story. Three Pigs and The True Story of the Three Pigs by A. Wolf. We think of movies based on books. Children think of how the book is based on a movie or cartoon they have seen. Julie and Julia the movie has led to great sales of Julia Child�s cookbook.

31. 31 Connecting Text- to-World We think of how the newspaper reminds of another place in the world-like Haiti Books may remind of us of our old home The book may make us think of other similar situations in the world WE Canadians need to keep making connections to the world. We have a history of helping in the world when called. �The world will be like a Global Village� predicted Marshall Mac Luhan.

32. 32 �Reading Between the Lines�Making Inferences is Hard Work We show how to be a good reading detective and read between the lines The author gives clues, we know information from the book, from our lives and we guess about the meaning of the text We may learn a moral or a lesson from a fable or other type of story We learn to make judgements

33. 33 Visualize-Make Pictures in our Mind Let the words make pictures in our minds. Use our five senses Good authors help us to see , smell , feel, taste, and touch Good readers get in the habit of making pictures or movies with action in their minds. We make the book more meaningful and personal if we do this This helps to remember what we read

34. 34 Ask Questions �W5+ Good readers are always asking questions themselves questions We can start with W5 Questions Who is in the story? Characters? Where does this story take place? When does the story happen? What is the problem in the story? How is the problem solved?

35. 35 Questions to Ask the Author-QtA Ask your children what questions they have for the author? What would you like to ask her or him? What questions would you ask the illustrator who did the pictures? Questions help us to think more deeply Asking questions before, during and after reading helps to build understanding and memory

36. 36 Determine Importance Children need help to decide what is important Children need reminders to look at titles, headings This is important when they do a project They think that everything is important The author gives clues in textbooks with titles, headings, bold print, italics, and summaries and pictures

37. 37 Clarify and Self- MonitorUse Fix-up Strategies Sometimes reading does not make sense. Stop and ask, �Does this make sense?� Is that clear to you? We need to clarify and use fix-up strategies. We reread. We read to the end. We come back and read the sentence again and out loud. If we are not sure, we ask someone who knows.

38. 38 Summarize-Sum it up We want to tell someone what we just read We may want to retell a joke we just heard We sum it up a story in a few words and save the ending for them to read. We retell our favourite stories and know them by heart Ask children to sum up information to make sure we have the key ideas Get in the habit of asking, Tell me what you learned in school.

39. 39 Combine New Information in New Ways-Synthesize We make meaning in new ways We take information from the text and what we know, to form brand new ideas and viewpoints We create a new text We write a poem or a letter We send an email to share We tell our friend what touched our heart and our head

40. 40 Tame the T.V. and Video Games Limit the amount and type of television you and your child watch. Better yet, turn off the television and spend more time cuddling and reading books with your child. The time and attention you give your child has many benefits. It helps to get ready for success in school.

41. 41 Have Fun Reading! Get audio books if you are learning to read English. Do readalongs with the children. Get movies based on books See different versions of the same book or movie and compare Get excited about what you read and learn Show how much reading and learning mean to you in your life

42. 42 You Are a Role Model for Your Children Help your child see that reading is important. Set a good example for your child by reading books, newspapers and magazines. Take children's books and writing materials with you whenever you leave home. This gives your child fun activities to entertain and occupy him while traveling and going to the doctor's office or other appointments.

43. 43 Make Reading Time Special Emily says, "My mom really likes to read to me and she makes the books sound funny by using different voices." It's not what you read to your child that counts; it's how. Make a story come alive by changing your voice and pace, or using sound effects and motions. "For me, it was not just books � it was how my mom read the book that got my attention," says Brittany

44. 44 Read Funny Books -Take time to read humorous books and laugh together. e.g. Amelia Bedelia. -Read joke books and riddle books -Funny poetry-Jack Prelutsky, Alan Katz -Encourage children to learn jokes and riddles to tell to your friends and relatives.

45. 45 Make Time-15 Minutes a Day Listening to your child read . Be patient and listen. Notice your child�s improvement. Tell them how much they have improved. Help them see the how the practice and hard work pays off. Let your child know you are pleased with his reading. Reread familiar books. Children need practise reading. You too may know their books by heart as well. What is the best time for you and your child?

46. 46 Love Books and Love Learning-Your Children will Too! �When children learn to love books, they learn to love learning."L. Bush Show children that you choose to do reading for the love of it! This month let your children catch you Reading !!

47. 47 Literacy For All At Gladstone we continue to live our motto everyday, �to be the best that we can be� At Gladstone we have a living literacy plan and every month is, �I Love to Read� month We know reading changes our lives Let us continue to spread our love of reading in the UN Decade for Literacy We have what it takes to make Canada the most literate country in the world We need to realize our dream of �Literacy for All-Freedom for All� in the world as well The future of all Children depends on literacy!

48. 48 Tonight Do Not Forget to Sign Up for a Library Card Today!  Join the library as soon as possible. Begin the habit of visiting the library. During the summer the public library is there to support you. There are special activities for children and volunteer readers all year round.

49. 49 Winnipeg School DivisionInvesting in the Future �Your Child�s future is an OPEN book!� Open it together! Keep it open forever! If you read at home and we read at school, we strengthen our home and school reading partnership. We work together for your children! We are investing in their future!

50. 50 Thank You To Our Gladstone Literacy Team Thank you to our wonderful principal Donna Miller for her literacy leadership Thanks to all of our Gladstone teachers for planning and presenting tonight�s events Thanks to each and every one of you for coming to make this a special evening for all! Now we will take a short refreshment break Then we will move to our break out groups Have fun tonight! Meet back in the gym at 7:35 p.m. - for our final song, door prize draws!