Reading Success at Home!

1. Reading Success at Home! Indian Hill’s First Grade Team Welcomes You!

2. Shared Reading looks like ??? • Where? • Anywhere that is comfortable • At bedtime tucked into bed • On a comfy couch or chair • At the park, in the library, at Grandma’s house • How? • Limit distractions! • Quiet – a great time to turn off electronics • Focused attention of child and adult • When? • Anytime! • Everyday! • The more often, the better  • Why? • Research shows how quality time spent reading at home each day helps improve reading performance, increase success at school, and develop the life-long love of reading.

3. Shared Reading with your child is ??? • An easy and fun way to help your child increase their reading ability • An opportunity to ‘take a break’ together and relax • A great time to share ideas – get to know what/how your child thinks • An experience that you will both look forward to each day • A time for your child to be the center of attention (who doesn’t love that )! • Thoughts? Challenges? Other ideas?

4. Shared Reading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJT9-3CzKo

5. How?? • Begin by talking! • Explore the cover of the book • Talk about the title – make predictions • Picture walk through the book • Talk about words that might fit the topic/story • Vocabulary! • Discuss what they think will happen, ask questions about why they think so – what are their reasons • Critical Thinking! • Read story – use strategies to figure out unfamiliar words (bookmarks & poster in resources) • Reading Fluency and Word Decoding! • Use Questioning Strategies to develop ‘thinking while reading’ • Comprehension and Understanding!

6. Decoding – Figure out unfamiliar words! • Students use strategies to figure out (decode) unfamiliar words! • Practice each one while reading! • Don’t forget to reread! • Get them in the habit of rereading sentence for understanding

7. Questioning – Thinking about reading! • Talk about the book! • Pause, ask questions, respond • Check for understanding by using questioning bookmarks for each level • Questions get more detailed and thoughtful as reading level and text difficulty gets higher

8. Talking Points while reading • Connect to real-life experiences whenever possible • Talk about unfamiliar words – use similar words to explain meaning • Refer to pictures/illustrations (and captions in non-fiction/true books) • Make predictions/ask how the story might change if one thing were to change • Have child retell the story (fiction) or ‘teach’ you (non-fiction) about what they read

9. Shared Reading Ideas in Practice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc_kxcPQ1I

10. Other KEY ideas! • Make sure that text is at an appropriate level • 5 finger test – student holds up five fingers and reads a page of their book choice. One finger goes down for every ‘too hard’ word. Count fingers left at the end of the page. • One or two fingers down – good choice book • Three, four, or five fingers down – too hard book • Fluency! Key to good comprehension • Student must practice reading aloud everyday • Good reading sounds like a conversation – smooth and flowing without word-by-word reading • Read with expression! • Encourage children to use ‘fun’ voices and expressive reading to create characters and do the same when its your turn to read!

11. Include ALL children for fun and learning! • Even the youngest children love to participate in shared reading • Help them be rock-star ready for school! • Choose a story of appropriate length • Let each child choose a favorite book • Use the same strategies – modify for age/interest • Stamina increases over time! • Older students (even first graders!) enjoy reading to younger brothers and sisters – what a great way to get even more reading practice!

12. Encourage children to… • Choose the right books! • Be a word detective – crack the code and discover the mystery! • Talk about what is being read! • Make connections – to real-life experiences, to other books, to the world! • Reread, Reread, Reread!

13. Move to Assisted Reading as they become more proficient • Use with: • More fluent readers who use good expression while reading • Students with a good knowledge of high frequency words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QQuox8bH8k