Practice Your Sight Words
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How to Nurture a Growing Reader
1. Read with your child at least once every day.
2. Make sure they have plenty to read. Take them to the library regularly and keep books and other reading materials in his or her reach.
3. Notice what interests your child and then help them find books about those things.
4. Respect your child's choices. There's nothing wrong with series fiction if that's what keeps a young reader turning the pages.
5. Praise your child's efforts and newly acquired skills.
6. Help your child build a personal library. Children's books, new or used, make GREAT gifts and appropriate rewards for reading. Designate a bookcase, shelf or box where your child can keep his or her books.
7. Check up on your child's progress. Listen to them read aloud, read what they write and ask teachers how they're doing in school.
8. Go places and do things with your child to build their background knowledge and vocabulary, as well as give them a basis for understanding what they read.
9. Tell stories. This is a fun way to teach values, pass on family history and build your child's listening and thinking skills.
10. Be a reading role model. Let your child see you read and share some interesting things with them that you have read about in books, newspapers or magazines.
11. Continue reading to older children even after they have learned to read by themselves.
12. Encourage writing along with reading. Ask children to sign their artwork, add to your shopping list, take messages and make their own books and cards as gifts.
From: www.rfi.org
2. Make sure they have plenty to read. Take them to the library regularly and keep books and other reading materials in his or her reach.
3. Notice what interests your child and then help them find books about those things.
4. Respect your child's choices. There's nothing wrong with series fiction if that's what keeps a young reader turning the pages.
5. Praise your child's efforts and newly acquired skills.
6. Help your child build a personal library. Children's books, new or used, make GREAT gifts and appropriate rewards for reading. Designate a bookcase, shelf or box where your child can keep his or her books.
7. Check up on your child's progress. Listen to them read aloud, read what they write and ask teachers how they're doing in school.
8. Go places and do things with your child to build their background knowledge and vocabulary, as well as give them a basis for understanding what they read.
9. Tell stories. This is a fun way to teach values, pass on family history and build your child's listening and thinking skills.
10. Be a reading role model. Let your child see you read and share some interesting things with them that you have read about in books, newspapers or magazines.
11. Continue reading to older children even after they have learned to read by themselves.
12. Encourage writing along with reading. Ask children to sign their artwork, add to your shopping list, take messages and make their own books and cards as gifts.
From: www.rfi.org
English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core
Key Ideas and Details
Key Ideas and Details
- Retell familiar stories, including key details of literary text.
- Identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
- Identify the main topic and retell key details of an informational text.
- Names author and illustrator of a story and defines the role of each in telling the story.
- Identify front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
- Recognizes that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
- Understands that spoken words are separated by spaces in print.
- Names all upper and lowercase letters.
- Recognizes and produces rhyming words.
- Count, pronounce, blend and segment syllables in spoken words.
- Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
- Isolate and pronounce initial, medial, and final sounds in three letter words.
- Add or substitute individual sounds in words to make new words.
- Produces sounds for the letters of the alphabet.
- Read common high-frequency words.
- Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
- Print many upper-and lowercase letters.
- Capitalize first word in a sentence.
- Recognize and name end punctuation.
- Spell simple words phonetically.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion piece.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event.
- Follows rules of conversation.
- Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
Activities:
High Frequency Word List
ABC Linking Chart
Alphabet Activities
Reading Tips
Letter Cards
HSSD Parent Resources
National Geographic Books
Letter Songs
Early Readers' Symbaloo
Listen to Reading Symbaloo
Symbaloo Webmix
Tumble Books
Literacy Symbaloo
Storyline Online
Big Universe (password protected)
Starfall
ABCya
High Frequency Word List
ABC Linking Chart
Alphabet Activities
Reading Tips
Letter Cards
HSSD Parent Resources
- K-4 Building Readers
- K-4 Building Readers Book List
- Building Vocabulary to Boost Reading Skills
- Asking Questions to Improve Comprehension
- Reading Aloud to Improve Skills
- Reading Aloud to Improve Fluency
- Exploring Nonfiction
- Brainstorming to Improve Writing
National Geographic Books
Letter Songs
Early Readers' Symbaloo
Listen to Reading Symbaloo
Symbaloo Webmix
Tumble Books
Literacy Symbaloo
Storyline Online
Big Universe (password protected)
Starfall
ABCya