Partners in Literacy

Arkansas Parent Training and Information Network/Arkansas State Improvement Grant1123 S. University, #225,

Little Rock, AR 72204

800.223.1330 501.614.7020

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Website adcpti.org

What is Parent Involvement?

“The participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities.”

NCLB Act 2002

Sec. 101 [32]

What is Literacy?

- The ability to speak, listen, read and write.

- The ability to locate, evaluate, use and communicate meaning using a wide range of resources including text, visual, audio and video sources.

What is Literacy?

What ALL Parents Can DO!

TALK with your child and ask your child questions

READ to your child and let your child read to you

Skill Teaching Strategy

Step 1. I DO (Parent demonstrates)Repeat as needed

Step 2. WE DO (Parent with Child)Repeat together until child understands what to do

Step 3. YOU DO (Child)Repeat many times until child can do it well.If needed, start again at step 1 or 2

Phonological Awareness

Definition

- The understanding that spoken language is made up of individual and separate sounds

Phonological awareness activities can involve work with rhymes, words, sentences, syllables, and phonemes.

Phonological Awareness Activities

1. Oral Rhyming (cat rat sat) Read poetry and other rhyming books. (Humpty Dumpty) When reading a familiar rhyme, stop before a rhyming word and ask your child to say the word.

2. Syllable awareness in spoken wordsClap parts of words. Start with your child’s name.

3. Phonemic awareness (an essential element) Individual sounds in spoken words is a part of phonological awareness.

Five Essential Elements of Literacy The BIG IDEAS

1. Phonemic Awareness

2. Phonics

3. Fluency

4. Vocabulary

5. Comprehension

Five Big Ideas of Literacy

Phonemic Awareness– The ability to notice, think

about, and work with the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

– The ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

Phonemes

Phonemes are the smallest parts of spoken language that make a difference in the meanings of words.– For example, changing the first phoneme (or first

sound) in the word hat from /h/ to /b/ changes the word from hat to bat, and so changes the meaning of the word.

Phonemic Awareness

Children need to learn– The spoken word consists of individual sounds

or phonemes– How the sounds work:

1. segment (break apart) into sounds 2. blend (put back together) 3. manipulate (add, delete & substitute).

Instruction in phonemic awareness skills helps children learn to read and spell. They understand that letters and sounds are related in a predictable way.

Phonemic Awareness Activities

1. Isolation-Individual sounds in a word.

“What is the first sound in van?” /v/ 2. Categorization-Child recognizes the word in a set

of 2 to 4 words that has the “odd” or different beginning sound.

“Which word doesn’t belong? bus, bun, rug.” rug

3. Blending-Blend sounds into words.

“What word is /s/ /u/ /n/?“ sun

Phonemic Awareness Activities

4. Segmentation-Break words into separate sounds, say each sound as your child taps or counts it.

fish = /f/ /i/ /sh/ (3 sounds) 5. Addition-Make a new word by adding a phoneme.

“What word do you have if you add /s/ to the beginning of the word park?” (S PARK) SPARK

6. Substitution-Substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.

“The word is BUG. Change /g/ to /n/. What’s the new word?” BUN

Five Big Ideas of Literacy

Phonics instruction (Alphabetic Principle) There is a predictable relationship between

phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (writing)

Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle

contributes greatly to a child’s ability to read

words both in isolation and in connected text.

Phonics Activities

Practice saying the names and sounds of letters with your child.

Match pictures of familiar things with the letters representing the beginning, middle and ending sounds. (shout, shirt, shell)

Ask your child to sound out each syllable when he or she comes to an unfamiliar word, then put the syllables together to make the word. (sy lla ble = syllable)

sh

Five Big Ideas of Literacy

Fluency and Accuracy– The ability to read text accurately

and quickly; not hurried reading.Provides a bridge between word

recognition and comprehensionReaders who have not yet developed fluency read slowly, word by word. Their oral reading is choppy and labored.

Fluency Activities

Read with your child everyday, smoothly pointing to words as you read.

Read a story, poem or play to your child, with expression. Then ask him to read the same page out loud to you.

Ask your child to read familiar stories over and over. See if she can read the story more quickly and smoothly over time.

Five Big Ideas of Literacy

Vocabulary- Understanding what words mean by

themselves and in sentences.

Oral Vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening

Reading Vocabulary refers to words we recognize or use in print.

Vocabulary Activities

TALK with your child during everyday activities and include your child in a variety of activities .

Look through a book before reading a story and ask your child to use words to describe the pictures.

Use your child’s textbook and talk to him about the vocabulary/words being studied.

Make refrigerator magnet words.

Five Big Ideas of Literacy

Comprehension – Understanding what has been read.

Comprehension is the reason for reading!

If readers can read the words, but do not

understand what they are reading, they are not

really reading.

Comprehension

Students need to learn how to:

Understand and remember what they read

Relate their own knowledge or experience to text

Communicate with others about what they read

Use comprehension strategies

Comprehension Activities

While traveling, ask questions about landmarks, reasons people might live in certain areas, etc.

“Think out loud” to your child when you are doing things around the house.

Check out books from the library with your child. Read the book’s title, or look at the pictures, and ask what he or she thinks the book is about.

Ask your child to retell parts of a story

to you after reading together. Allow your child to read and

carry out favorite recipes.

DIBELS

Assistive Technology for Literacy Improve Functional Capabilities

Low Tech Mid Tech

Fat PencilBook stand Magnifier

Light

Tape Recorder and earphones

Computer and keyboard options Mouse options

Hi Tech

Resources for You

Your child’s teacher Parent Facilitators in every public school Parent Centers in every

public school Public Library

“Ideas to Build Your Child’s Reading Skills”

Literacy Activities for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension

Sight Words for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels

Download at http://arksped.k12.ar.us/

3 Levels of Brochures

Put Reading First Helping Your Child Learn

to Read

Parent Brochure for Preschool thru Grade 3 (English and Spanish)

Order booklet: 1.800.228.8813 or can download at

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html

A Child Becomes a Reader

Parent Booklet for

Kindergarten thru

Grade 3 OR

Birth through Preschool Order from

1.800.228.8813

or can download at

http://www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/k-3.html

Helping Your Child Become a Reader

Parent Booklet for Birth through age 6+

(English and Spanish)

DOWNLOAD ONLY: 1.877.433.7827 download at http://www.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html

Resources for You Internet Websites

LiteracyCenter.net www.literacycenter.net On-line Early Childhood activities in English, Spanish,

German and French

Reading Rockets www.readingrockets.org Activities and tip sheets for pre-school through 3rd

grade in English and Spanish

Compact for Reading & School-Home Links http://www.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/index.html

Printable activities for grades K-3rd (100 each) in

English and Spanish

Resources for You Internet Websites

The Arkansas Family Literacy Partnership www.accessarkansas.org/afl/about_us.html

Including AR Even Start Family Literacy. 4 In-depth videos.

• DIBELS Parent Brochure gives basic assessment information http://www.fcrr.org/assessment/PDFfiles/ParentBrochure.pdf

Special Education http://arksped.k12.ar.us IDEA changes and downloadable literacy brochures

● Special-Kids email http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Special-Kids Group email for Arkansas families who have children with special

needs. Parents helping parents.

Resources for You Internet Websites

Arkansas Literacy Intervention Matrix literacymatrix.com

Classroom lessons/interventions and possible modifications for the five essential areas of literacy for grades K - 4, 5 - 8, and 9 -12. Lessons are linked to Arkansas Frameworks and include activities for students in need of Tier I, II, III, IV and V level of support.

Resources for You Internet Websites

Family Center on Technology and Disability www.fctd.info

Arkansas State Improvement Grant: www.arstateimprovementgrant.com

Arkansas Disability Coalition (ADC) and PTI (AR Parent Training and Information Network)http://arkansaspti.org or adcpti.org A non-profit organization working with parents of children with disabilities to develop self-advocacy skills and improve communication between home and school.

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