Literacy Learning
Tools to Build Lifelong Literacy Skills
What is Summer Reading Loss?
Why is this Important?
How Can I Help My Child Bulid literacy
2. Ask your child questions about what they read
3. K-2 Students need to practice reading fluency folders, sight words, and decodables. The few minutes spent daily on these assigned activities are a huge investment in your child's future.
4. Remind students to sound out words.
5. Spelling words are to to be memorized for Friday and forgotten by Monday, but rather are to practive reading, writing, and spelling words with the phonics skills they are learning.
6. Ask your child's teacher what you as a parent can do at home to support in class learning of literacy.
Building a Love for Reading
Read to them. As kids are growing up, make reading aloud part of your daily routine. Kids will make positive associations with reading and spending time with family.
Keep books in the house. Kids who grow up in homes with lots of books read more. If your family has an ereader, keep it stocked with new books. You can even check out ebooks from the library.
Set aside time daily for your kids to read. Prioritizing reading by making time for it, even as kids get older, has a huge impact.
Read! Parents who read more have kids who read more. Don't save your reading time for after your kids are in bed. Read in front of them, and make going to the library a routine for you and your kids.
How to Sound Out at Home
- When a child stares at a new word....."Look at the first letter and say the sound." or "Get your mouth ready to start the word."
- When a child says the first letter's sound correctly but says a word that is incorrect..."Say it slowly like when you write it." or "Look through the word."
- When a child looses his/her place in their reading and begins making up words that match the picture.."Let's back up and re-read. This time, point to the words as you say them." or "Keep your eye on the words, like keeping our eyes on the ball."
- When a child says a word that might look like the word in the book but isn't correct..." You said______. Does that make sense?" or "You said _______. Does that sound right?" or "You said ________. Does that look right?"
When a child needs to correct a word, after the go back and pronounce it correctly, it is a good practice for the child to go back and begin at the beginning of the sentence and say it all again to regain the context of the story.
Building Reading Comprehension
Read-Stop-Think
With this strategy, students will READ small chunks of text, STOP to monitor their understanding, and then THINK within, about, or beyond the text. Many comprehension skills can be applied at these stopping points, and you can do this with both fiction and non-fiction texts.
Bonnie Villarreal
UTPB STEM Academy
Reading Coach
Dyslexia Interventionist
LibrarianEmail: villarreal_b@utpb.edu
Website: https://www.utpb.edu/academics/stem-academy/
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