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Welcome
To Our Fourth GradeReading Night
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Why is Reading at Home Important?
Few children learn to love books bythemselves. Someone has to lure them intothe wonderful world of the written word.Someone has to show them the way.
Orville Prescott (principal daily bookcritic for the New York Times)
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We hope that by you being here tonight:
We are better able to bridge our efforts betweenhome and school.
We can help create life-long readers.
We can share what the experts say.
We can gain your support in our endeavor tohelp your child in the area of reading.
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H ow can you help at home?Three skill areas of reading that can bepracticed at home:
Fluency
Accuracy
Comprehension
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The re is ampl e eviden ce t hat o ne of t he major diffe ren ce s between poor a nd goo d re a de rs i s the diffe ren ce in the qua ntity of tot alti m e they spend re a ding .
Na tion al R e a ding Pa nel 2000
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What Matters: Variation In the Amount of Independent Reading
PercentileRank
Minutes Per Day Words Read Per Year
Books Text Books Text98 65.0 76.3 4,358,000 4,733,000
90 21.2 33.4 1,823,000 2,357,000
80 14.2 24.6 1,146,000 1,697,000
70 9.6 16.9 622,000 1,168,000
60 6.5 13.1 432,000 722,000
50 4.6 9.2 282,000 601,000
40 3.2 6.2 200,000 421,000
30 1.8 4.3 106,000 251,000
20 0.7 2.4 21,000 134,000
10 0.1 1.0 8000 51,000
2 0 0 0 8,000Anderson, Richard C.Wilson, P.T.Fielding, L.G.Growth in Reading and How Children Spend Their Time Outside of School , 1988, Reading Research Quarterly, #23, pp. 285-303
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Fluency Fluency at school involves:Repeated reading of the text Partner reading Poetry Readers theaterTeacher read aloud
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Fluency Fluency at home might include:Shared reading with your childReading aloud to a sibling Fluency homework Choral reading
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A text i s a t a s tudent sindependent re a ding level if they ca n re a d it with ab out 95% acc u rac y .
- Mar ie B. C l a y
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Accuracy
Accuracy at school involves:Moving from learning to read to reading to learnDeveloping a large sight-word vocabulary Practice with word parts prefix, suffix, root word
Decoding
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Accuracy
Accuracy at home might include:
Appropriate book choicesFluency homework Checking for understanding
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R e a ding a loud with child ren i sk nown to be the single m o st i m po rt a nt activity fo r b uilding the k nowledge a nd sk ill s they will eventu a lly re q ui re fo r le arning to re a d .
- Mar ilyn Ja ge r A d ams
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ComprehensionComprehension at school involves:
Modeling through a shared text Explicit teaching of isolated skills and strategiesSmall group reading
Application of interconnected skills and strategies
to independent reading Reading responses
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ComprehensionComprehension at home might include:
Enjoyment of reading Understanding what is read - Post-its and
Thinkmarks
Questioning and discussion techniques
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Comprehension Quiz
Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Once upon a time a little gloogle decided to learn to klint. Sheknew she needed some arkons, such as a sneemp, clug, andfarlor. After she gathered her arkons the gloogle beganhimming. After about thirty mycas the gloogle became
worpined. She was delled! Everyone was amazed at how rooty shehad learned to klint. The gloogle took her klinting on the road andlived mlafirty ever after.
1. What did the little gloogle want to learn?2. H ow was the little gloogle feeling after thirty mycas?3. After learning her new skill, what did the little gloogle do?
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Where does your child find a good book?
H ow does your child choose a good book?
Is the book appropriate for your childs reading level?
There are many genres. Be sure to try new ones!
Choosing Books
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.- John Witherspoon
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I t i s not enough to si m ply te ach child ren
to re a d; we ha ve to give the m s o m ething wo rth re a ding . So m ething tha t will st ret ch thei r i ma gin a tion s-so m ething tha t will
help the m mak e sen se of thei r own live sa nd en cou ra ge the m to re ach out tow ard people who se live s ar e q uite diffe rent
f ro m thei r own .
-Ka the rine Pa tte rson