Welcome to Evergreen Elementary's Reading
Room
February 2009
Simple Simple Strategies for Creating Strong
Readers
Through reading aloud,
providing print materials, and promoting positive attitudes about
reading and writing, you can have a powerful impact on your child's
literacy and learning.
- Invite your child to read with you every
day.
- When reading a book where the print is large,
point word by word as you read. This will help your child learn
that reading goes from left to right and understand that the word
said is the word seen.
- Read your child's favorite book over and
over.
- Read many stories with rhyming words and
repeated lines. Invite your child to join in on these parts. Point,
word by word, as your child reads along with you.
- Discuss new words. For example, "This big house
is called a palace. Who do you think lives in a
palace?"
- Stop and ask about the pictures and about what
is happening in the story.
- Read from a variety of children's books,
including fairy tales, song books, poems, and information
books.
http://www.rif.org/parents/tips/
This month in the READING ROOM:
We have
just begun working with each grade level to match what students are
doing in their classroom Making Meaning lessons. Each grade
level is working on different topics:
Kindergarten: Retelling
1st grade: Retelling
2nd grade: Making Inferences about Characters
3rd grade: Wondering and Questioning
4th grade: Making Inferences
5th grade: Exploring Narrative Text
Please come by the reading room to the resource center for
brochures on the fix-up strategies as well as what story elements
are and how you can support your student at
home.
Informative Websites:
www.k12.wa.us/parents -OSPI website
for parents containing information about State School Report Cards,
WASL, and other resources for parents
If you have any
questions, please feel free to call me at 533-1352
Susan
Brummitt
Title 1
Teacher
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