successful reader presentation
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This short presentation highlights four steps to ensure your child becomes a successful reader.TRANSCRIPT
Reading Horizons presents:
Four steps to ensure your child
becomes a successful reader
7 out of 10 students
will learn to read regardless
of the teaching method employed.
Normal Developing Readers
3 will NOT!3 will NOT!
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Consistent Pattern
Dr. Jean Chall, Harvard University
Grade Level
What About the 30%?
Step 1: Create the Right Environment
Home Library
Cozy atmosphere
Opportunities to Read Aloud
http://texasmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-shelves-built-for-toddler.html
Cozy atmosphere
Cozy environment• Lighting
• Ventilation
• Reading Position
• Focal Distance
• Distraction
Opportunity to Read Aloud
"If parents understood the huge educational benefit and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent—and every adult caring for a child—read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in their lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation."
-Mem Fox author Reading Magic
3 Benefits of Reading Aloud
1. Reading to a child is a positive activity which helps strengthen the bond between a parent and a child.
2. Reading to a child teaches a child that the parent values reading and creates positive reinforcement for the child to enjoy and engage in reading.
3. Reading to a child increases a child’s understanding of the rules and sounds in the English language.
Step 2: Assess the Present Reading Ability
Reading fluency encompasses the speed or rate of reading, as well as the ability to read materials with expression.
Types of assessmentshttp://athome.readinghorizons.com/assessments/index.aspx
• Word Recognition
• Phonemic awareness
• Most common word
• Word segmentation
Should I get my child tested?
Cons
•Fear of “label”
•Expensive
•Where to get a test?
Pros
•Diagnosis provides help by law
•Understand solution
Appropriate Reading Rates
Reading fluency, as defined by Neil Anderson, is "reading at an appropriate rate with adequate comprehension" (Anderson, 2008, p. 3).
What is an “appropriate rate?”
Silent Reading Rates
1st grade: 80 wpm
2nd grade: 115 wpm
3rd grade: 138 wpm
4th grade: 158 wpm
5th grade: 173 wpm
6th grade: 185 wpm
7th grade: 195 wpm
8th grade: 204 wpm
9th grade: 214 wpm
10th grade: 224 wpm
11th grade: 237 wpm
12th grade: 250 wpm
College or University: 280 wpm
Oral Reading Rates
1st grade: 53 wpm
2nd grade: 89 wpm
3rd grade: 107 wpm
4th grade: 123 wpm
5th grade: 139 wpm
6th grade: 150 wpm
7th grade: 150 wpm
8th grade: 151 wpm
Step 3: Make a Plan
1. Understanding the Big Picture
2. Choosing Core Curriculum
3. How to Help a Struggling Reader
Understand the Big Picture
What is my role as the parent?
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
Ghandi
Words matter
They make us aware, they cause us to think, to feel emotion, to react, to care or not to care.
How do babies know how important they are to us?
Learning language and communication skills:
Empowered to express ourselves
Enhancements
Songs can teach about sounds
Explore and Discover
“Use Your Words”
Choosing Core Curriculum
1. Learn what the school is using.
2. Homeschooling or supplementing school should include:
• Direct Instruction• Independent Work• Computer Time (optional)
Word attack skills• Phonemic Awareness• Alphabet Sounds• Letter Blends• Vowel Combinations• Plurals• Phonetic Skills• Suffixes• Murmur Diphthongs and Digraphs• Word Decoding Skills• Multi-syllabic Words
Struggling Reader
• Is it Dyslexia?
• Dyslexia Assessment
http://athome.readinghorizons.com/assessments/dyslexic-assessment.aspx
Knopf Publishing, New York (2003)
ISBN: 0-375-40012-5
Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz
Tips for choosing reading materials:
• Text needs to be simple enough
• Options
• 10-15 min. segments
Proper intervention is needed before more reading becomes a useful practice.
Learning Disabilities 101
Step 4: Provide Reading Activities
*Reading aloud to your child
*Listen to your child read aloud
*Plan to access resources
*Provide spontaneous reading activities
Access Resources*Regular library visits
*Book clubs, book reviews
*Magazine subscriptions
*Newspapers
*Recipe Books
*Safe websites
*How-To Books
*Comic, Jokes, Riddles Books
*Journals
*Letter-writing and reading
*Read up before excursions, trips
Provide spontaneous Reading Activities
*Bookstore visits, sales
*Movies after reading it
*Board games
*Safe Internet Sites
*Audio tapes, CD’s
*Car Games
Life-Long Learning
Conclusion
• Create the right environment
• Assess reading ability
• Make a reading plan
• Provide activities
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