Reading Success at Home!

Indian Hill’s First Grade Team

Welcomes You!

Shared Reading looks like ???

• Where?– Anywhere that is comfortable

• At bedtime tucked into bed• On a comfy couch or chair• At the park, in the library, at Grandma’s house

• How?– Limit distractions!

• Quiet – a great time to turn off electronics• Focused attention of child and adult

• When?– Anytime! – Everyday!– The more often, the better

• Why?– Research shows how quality time spent reading at home

each day helps improve reading performance, increase success at school, and develop the life-long love of reading.

Shared Reading with your child is ???

• An easy and fun way to help your child increase their reading ability

• An opportunity to ‘take a break’ together and relax

• A great time to share ideas – get to know what/how your child thinks

• An experience that you will both look forward to each day

• A time for your child to be the center of attention (who doesn’t love that )!

• Thoughts? Challenges? Other ideas?

Shared Reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiJT9-3CzKo

How??• Begin by talking!

– Explore the cover of the book– Talk about the title – make predictions – Picture walk through the book

• Talk about words that might fit the topic/story Vocabulary!

• Discuss what they think will happen, ask questions about why they think so – what are their reasons

Critical Thinking!

– Read story – use strategies to figure out unfamiliar words (bookmarks & poster in resources)

Reading Fluency and Word Decoding!

– Use Questioning Strategies to develop ‘thinking while reading’

Comprehension and Understanding!

Decoding – Figure out unfamiliar words!

• Students use strategies to figure out (decode) unfamiliar words!

• Practice each one while reading!

• Don’t forget to reread!– Get them in the habit of

rereading sentence for understanding

Questioning – Thinking about reading!

• Talk about the book!• Pause, ask questions,

respond • Check for understanding

by using questioning bookmarks for each level– Questions get more

detailed and thoughtful as reading level and text difficulty gets higher

Talking Points while reading

• Connect to real-life experiences whenever possible

• Talk about unfamiliar words – use similar words to explain meaning

• Refer to pictures/illustrations (and captions in non-fiction/true books)

• Make predictions/ask how the story might change if one thing were to change

• Have child retell the story (fiction) or ‘teach’ you (non-fiction) about what they read

Shared Reading Ideas in Practice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fc_kxcPQ1I

Other KEY ideas!• Make sure that text is at an appropriate level

– 5 finger test – student holds up five fingers and reads a page of their book choice. One finger goes down for every ‘too hard’ word. Count fingers left at the end of the page.

• One or two fingers down – good choice book• Three, four, or five fingers down – too hard book

• Fluency! Key to good comprehension– Student must practice reading aloud everyday– Good reading sounds like a conversation – smooth and

flowing without word-by-word reading• Read with expression!

– Encourage children to use ‘fun’ voices and expressive reading to create characters and do the same when its your turn to read!

Include ALL children for fun and learning!

• Even the youngest children love to participate in shared reading– Help them be rock-star ready for school!– Choose a story of appropriate length– Let each child choose a favorite book– Use the same strategies – modify for

age/interest– Stamina increases over time! – Older students (even first graders!) enjoy

reading to younger brothers and sisters – what a great way to get even more reading practice!

Encourage children to…

• Choose the right books!• Be a word detective – crack the code

and discover the mystery!• Talk about what is being read! • Make connections – to real-life

experiences, to other books, to the world!

• Reread, Reread, Reread!

Move to Assisted Reading as they become more

proficient • Use with:• More fluent readers who use good expression while

reading• Students with a good knowledge of high frequency

words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QQuox8bH8k