Evamere Literacy Night 2014

Introduction to Literacy• Reading is developmental

• Primary purpose of reading is to acquire meaning

• Writing is developmental• Primary purpose of writing is to convey meaning

• We read and write for a variety of purposes• Both fiction and non-fiction

First graders need to develop a love of reading and writing!

Literacy Expectations

• Increased amount of time writing across curriculum

• Connect reading and writing• Authentic and Meaningful purposes• Increase in the amount of non-fiction

Evamere Library

Joanne Meszaros

Library website:http://www.hudson.k12.oh.us/domain/795

INFOhio username: hudson password: exp

First Grade Reading Assessments

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

• Letter Naming Fluency• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency• Nonsense Word Fluency• Oral Reading Fluency

• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)• Accuracy and Comprehension

• Fry Word List – sight words• How we use this information

Balanced literacy in the classroom

• Word wall• Word Study• Big books and literature

sets• Poetry notebook• Anchor Charts• Responding to reading

• Writing Workshop• Guided Reading• Partner Reading• Read Aloud• Shared Reading• Reading Intervention• Readers’ Theatre

Writing Workshop/Reading Workshop

• Writing!• Genres:

– Narrative– Informative– Opinion

• Conferences with the teacher and other students

• Reading!• Daily 5 –

Independent and partner reading activities

• Conferences and small groups with the teacher

Cueing System• Meaning Cues

– What makes sense? – Look at the picture

• Structure– Does it sound right?

• Visual– Phonics, letter sounds

Reading Strategies• Using the cueing strategies to predict text

• Look at the picture• Say the first sound or get your mouth ready• Read ahead to attend to meaning• Break apart or look for a known part of the word

• Self-monitoring • Recognizing when reading does not sound right, look

right, or make sense• Self-correcting

• Cross checking• Integrating 2 or 3 cues to solve “tricky part”

Fluency

• Accuracy

• Speed - appropriate rate

• Expression and phrasing

• The point of fluency is that it leads to

comprehension!

Comprehension Strategies• Proficient readers use 8 main comprehension

strategies while reading– Make connections– Visualize– Ask questions– Infer– Determine importance in non-fiction– Synthesize– Monitor Understanding– Use fix-up strategies

Vocabulary

• Aids in comprehension

• Taught both explicitly in content areas non-

fiction and acquired through inferring words in

text

• This should be fun

– Gather and collect words through home

experiences to use in literacy

READ at home• Listen to your child read• Read to your child• Read together

– Echo and Paired Reading

• Retell stories and talk about books• Work with words-Fry word Phrases

WRITE at home• Keep a journal or write notes• Have supplies handy for making books

or writing stories• Help your child stretch sounds• Phonetic spelling is okay! Help them

look for patterns• Tell/write stories and non-fiction with

details and using rich vocabulary

READ! WRITE!

• Model reading

• Read and write for practical purposes

• Create a positive reading and writing

environment in your home

• Have fun!