Reading

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Reading

• A Parents Guide to Helping Enhance Reading
  Skills at Home!

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• Many parents are interested in helping their
  children build and enhance reading skills at
  home.

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• This has definitely been a consensus for the
  parents here at Arrowhead!
• Parents, you have been asked to
• read with your children
• have your children read for 20-30 minutes
• and have your children summarize what they have
  read

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• All these are wonderful things to be done at
  home.
• But parents, I guess youve realized that

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• Reading just isnt what it used to be!

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• Heres a peek into what reading is now!

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• According to the State of Maryland,
• Reading Instruction not only focuses on learning
  to decode words and answer questions that follow
  the reading.
• Reading Instruction is helping a child to
  understand

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• Authors Viewpoint
• Cause and Effect
• Fact and Opinion
• Fantasy and Realism

• Making Inferences
• Sequence of Events
• Text Features
• BCRs

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• Here are some ideas to use at home to help with
  these comprehension areas of reading.

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• Authors Viewpoint involves explaining the
• authors opinion about an idea or subject.

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• Parents, when serving dinner to your children ask
• How do you feel about me preparing dinner for
  you? Then ask, How do you think I feel about
  preparing dinner for you? Why do you think
  thats how I feel?
• Hence, authors viewpoint! The parent is the
  author. The child explains the parents opinion
  about the subject (preparing dinner).
• Always ask why. Explaining why allows your
  child to support their comments with details.
  (BCR skill).

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• Cause and Effect involves explaining
• relationships between characters and events.

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• Parents, when encouraging your child (character)
  to do homework and study for test (event). Ask
  them
• Why do you think it is important to study for
  this test? What do you think will happen if you
  do not study?
• Hence, cause and effect! The cause why
  study? The effect The outcome of studying or
  not studying.

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• Fact and Opinion involves determining a fact
  (whats true) and determining an opinion (what
  someone thinks).

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• Parents, when driving down the highway and your
  child says,
• Those are really weird looking license plates.
  
• Let them know that weird is their opinion.
  Its what they think or feel about the plate and
  that everyone doesnt feel that way.
• Ask them to give you some facts about the
  license plate, ie color, letters, numbers.
  Explain that these facts are things that can be
  visibly proven.

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• Fantasy and Realism is explaining the
  believability of the characters actions.

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• When watching tv with your child, parents this
  is an opportunity to identify what is real and
  what is fantasy.
• Shows like Thats So Raven is full of fantasy
  (Raven seeing into the future) and realism (an
  annoying sibling and parents who have high
  expectations of her make her follow the rules).

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• Making inferences involves explaining what you
  think may happen when the authors has given you
  much information. (Reading between the lines).
• The student has to use their background
  knowledge of the subject to determine what may
  happen.

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• Parents, on the rare occasion that your child
  doesnt do the things that you have asked them to
  do. (Pick up toys and shoes out of the floor and
  you have stepped on them with bare feet.)
• You can use this time to practice inferring.
• When your child sees your face and hears your
  voice. They will immediately be able to infer
  what will happen next based on their background
  knowledge of these types of events, without you
  saying a word!
• Be sure to ask your child to make an inference
  about what you are thinking and what they think
  will happen next.

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• Sequence of Events is being able to identify
  events and to put them in order.

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• Parents,
• A sure way to help your child with sequence of
  events is to get them in the kitchen with you.
  Let them help you prepare a dish using a recipe.
  (Could be something as simple as making Jello
  gelatin or Jello pudding.) Have them review the
  recipe before the two of you begin to prepare it.
  Begin asking your child questions about the
  recipe. What ingredients do we need? What do we
  do first? What comes next? Be sure to use
  sequence words like before, then, after, next,
  first, and last. Then prepare the recipe
  together, exactly as stated.
• You would have just practiced sequence of events!

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• Text Features are any changes in the text that
• help you to understand the text better.
• Text features are everywhere and in several
  forms. Bold print, italics, colored print, maps,
  charts, pictures, captions, headings and
  subheading, titles, and the list could go on.

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ReadingA parents guide to helping enhance
reading skills at home!

• Parents, text features are all over your home.
  They are not only in books and magazines. Text
  features can be found on food items, shoe boxes,
  etc. Ask you child about the text features on
  the items in your home. Ask them for example how
  the picture of the smiling face and the white
  words help them to know what is inside of the
  bag. Ask them what other things are there that
  help them to understand what is inside the bag.
  Ask them if one text feature helped them more
  than another. Be sure to ask why! The why helps
  with the supporting details.

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Brief Constructed Response Parents, here is a
BCR for you. Try it in your spare time.

• How did the information in this presentation
  help you understand how you can help enhance your
  childs reading at home.
• Use details from the presentation to support
  your answer.
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• In closing, Parents dont be discouraged about
  helping your child to read. There are activities
  at home right under your nose. The key is
  generating conversations with your child and
  using the language mentioned in this
  presentation.
• Good Luck and Happy Reading!