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Title: Language


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Language LiteracyHelping Students Become
Better Readers
  • Presenters
  • Marcella Bell, Speech-Language Pathologist, LFE
  • Karen Henley, Speech-Language Pathologist, CCE
  • Autumn Leach, Speech-Language Pathologist, CCE
  • Stephanie McCall, Reading Specialist, CCE
  • Kim Victor, Reading Specialist, LFE

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What is meant by language and literacy?
  • Language and literacy involve overlapping skills
  • Language includes listening, speaking, reading,
    and writing
  • Literacy requires the efficient use of listening,
    speaking, reading, and writing
  • Listening and speaking skills develop prior to
    reading and writing skills
  • Listening and speaking directly impact the
    development of the reading and writing processes

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A Proficient Listener and Speaker
  • Understands basic concepts and vocabulary
  • Understands and follows oral directions
  • Understands and answers questions appropriately
  • Notices and responds to different intonational
    patterns (recognizes questions, exclamations,
    etc.) and recognizes differences in facial
    expressions
  • Uses appropriate vocabulary, word choices
  • Uses correct word structure and sentence
    structure
  • Speaks in complete sentences
  • Asks questions effectively
  • Carries on a conversation appropriately
  • Makes inferences and predictions

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A Proficient Reader and Writer
  • Demonstrates oral and written knowledge of
    letters and the sounds they represent
  • Makes and checks predictions before, during, and
    after reading
  • Decodes (translates letter symbols into words)
  • Encodes the opposite of decodes (changing the
    words back into the letter symbols)
  • Reads with fluency
  • Recalls and retells what is read
  • Asks and answers questions about what has been
    read
  • Summarizes a reading passage orally and in
    writing
  • Makes oral and written connections to text (self,
    text, world)
  • Filters and evaluates information read

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Todays Focus
  • Phonemic Awareness
  • The ability to hear and work with the individual
    sounds in spoken words
  • Vocabulary
  • The words we must know in order to communicate
    orally or in print

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Phonemic Awareness ActivityHumpty Dumpty
  • Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
  • Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
  • All the kings horses and all the kings men
  • Couldnt put Humpty together again.

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Humpty Dumpty Review
  • Skills
  • Rhythm
  • Rhyme
  • Sense of word (blending, segmenting, clapping)
  • Intonation
  • Expression
  • Vocabulary
  • Why is phonemic awareness important?
  • It lays the foundation for becoming a fluent
    reader (oral reading sounds like conversation)

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Vocabulary ActivityGoing to the Store
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Going to the Store
  • Talk about where you are going. (preview)
  • What will you do there? (anticipate)
  • What will you see there? (predict)
  • What places do you see on the way? (recall)
  • What signs do you see? (attention to details)
  • Play word games and letter games during the trip
    (phonemic awareness)
  • How are things organized at the store?
    (categorizing)
  • How many do we need? (number concepts)
  • What are these called? (labeling)
  • What do these look like? (describing)

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Lets Read a Book!
  • Discuss parts of the book (title, author,
    illustrator).
  • Practice phonemic awareness activities during the
    story.
  • Reinforce and expand your childs vocabulary
  • Ask your child questions to improve critical
    thinking skills.

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How Can You Foster Your Childs Phonemic
Awareness?
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Counting Sounds in Words
  • Poetry and rhymes
  • Dr. Seuss books
  • The Name Game
  • Songs and chants
  • Read aloud with repetitive text

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How Can You Increase Your Childs Vocabulary?
  • Engage in adult-like conversation with your child
    daily and constantly
  • Read to your child and with your child daily
  • Connect reading to prior knowledge and
    experiences
  • Participate in a wide variety of experiences and
    discuss them with your child
  • Use reference materials (maps, dictionaries,
    etc.)
  • Read various kinds of reading materials (fiction,
    non-fiction, magazines, etc.)

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Characteristics of Families Whose Children Do
Well in School
  • Establish a daily family routine
  • Monitor out of school activities
  • Model the value of learning, self-discipline, and
    hard work
  • Express high but realistic expectations for
    achievement
  • Encourage reading, writing, and discussions at
    home
  • Make reading a priority
  • Use school and community resources (teachers,
    libraries, etc.)

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Parent Resources
  • http//pbskids.org/lions/words/
  • http//www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publicat
    ions/readingk-3.pdf

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You Are Your Childs First Teacher
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You Will Always Be Your Childs Most Influential
Teacher
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Parenting is the Hardest Job in the
World!!!!We Appreciate YOU!
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