Tools for Reading Success

Lori Elliott

Did you Know?About what

percentage of students have

difficulty learning to read?

60%

If a child is a poor reader at the end of first grade, there is an almost 90%

probability that the child will be a poor reader at the end of fourth grade.

Birth to age 8 are the most critical years for learning to read and

write.

Balanced ApproachComprehension Words

Writing Fluency/Rereading

Before-During-After

By Robert Barry

Chocolate Maniac By: Brod Bagert

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Chocolate ManiacI love my motherI love my dad,I love my brother,Through he drives me mad. My teacher?She is fine and dandy.But I really loveMy chocolate candy. I eat it when it's hot,I eat it when it's cold,I eat it when it's fresh,And I eat it when it's old.

 I eat it by the ounce,I eat it by the pound,I eat it at the table,And I eat it off the ground. I eat it and I eat itTill my belly's going to pop,Then I eat a little more --I don't know how to stop.

I love that chocolate taste,Oh, so gooey, sweet, and thick,But I've eaten way too muchAnd I feel a little sick. I have got to learn to stop,I have got to take control.I'll give chocolate up forever . . .WHEN I'M 99 YEARS OLD!

Groupings: When and Why?

Independent

Small Group

Partners

Whole Group

Read Alouds are so important

Build Backgroun

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Fiction/NonFictio

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Lengths

GenresLevels

Organizing Book Baskets• Organize by Author• Organize by Level• Organize by Topic• Organize by Genre

Hang Those Bottoms Down!Hang those bottoms down, downHang those bottoms downSome letters stand tallSome sit on the wallSome hang their bottoms down, down

Phonics or Phonemic Awareness

PHONICS• Visual• Letters and Letter

Names• Rule Based• Print Centered• Spelling to Sound

System

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

• Auditory• Speech Based• Speech Sounds have

letters• Phoneme

Discrimination

Kids with Phonemic Awareness

• When words start alike• When words rhyme• When words are long words or short words• If words have “lots of letters” or just a few• How to stretch letter sounds• How to play with words

The Wishy-Washy Washerwoman

In the deep dark jungle where nobody goes

There’s a wishy-washy washerwoman washing her clothes

She goes “Ooh, ahh, ooh, ahh,

Ooh ahh ahh and a ringy-ding-ding!”

WoodchuckHow much wood would a woodchuck chuckIf a woodchuck could chuck wood?A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he couldIf a woodchuck could chuck wood!

Back to Back

Spelling Instruction Should Include:

Alphabetic Principle

Knowledge

Pattern Information

Meaning Information

Environmental Print/Word Wall

Structure of the Workshop1.    Minilesson/Modeling by the teacher 2.  Students

Write/Teacher Conferences with students

3. Author’s Chair: Share time

Mini-Lessons/Modeling• Short about 10

minutes.• Focused on one

particular topic.• Always involve

modeling: teacher writing, student samples, books.