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

Toddler Library

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

What is reading fluency?

Types of Assessments

Should I get my child tested?

Appropriate Reading Rates

Silent vs. Oral

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.

For this is the way babies know they are the most important thing in the world.

Learning language and communication skills.

Think outside the box

Ways to express

Songs can teach about sounds

“Use your words”

Choosing Core Curriculum

1. Learn what the school is using

2. Homeschool 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

Access Resources

*Provide Spontaneous Activities

*Visit the library

*Magazine Subscription

*Recipe Book

*How-To Books

*Comic Books

*Journals

Access Resources

*Letter-writing

*Bookstore visits

*Book club

*Read book before movie

*Board games

*Safe Internet Sites

*Car Games

Life Long Learning

Conclusion

• Create the right environment

• Assess reading ability

• Make a reading plan

• Provide activities

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