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Southern Boulevard School PTO Presentation January 10,2012

This presentation discusses strategies to help students become proficient readers, including balanced literacy, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading, and the importance of classroom libraries. It also emphasizes the role of parents in promoting reading at home and provides suggestions for fostering a love of reading in children.

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Southern Boulevard School PTO Presentation January 10,2012

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  1. Southern Boulevard School PTO Presentation January 10,2012 Helen S. Comba Language Arts Supervisor School District of the Chathams

  2. What do we do when we read?

  3. Running out of gas! • Read the article from Parade Magazine entitled http://www.parade.com/news/2010/02/28-back-page-who-runs-out-of-gas.html • Go ahead and read – but also think about your own thinking. What do you do – when you read?

  4. What did you do? • Make predictions • Reread • Skimmed the article • Monitored your comprehension • Questioned the author • Made inferences • Made connections to the article

  5. Good Readers 1. Understand that reading should make sense. 2. move beyond the literal decoding and to comprehending the global meanings of text. 3. Learn how to read using different strategies. Struggling Readers 1. Poor reader concentrate on decoding and often do not make meaning or expect texts to make sense. 2. Poor readers have a limited passive view of reading. • 3. Have an impoverished idea of what real reading involves and a limited repertoire of strategies.

  6. How do we (teachers & parents)… help all students to be Proficient or Good Readers?

  7. At School Balanced Literacy includes • Shared Reading (Big Books) • Guided Reading (Leveled Readers) • Independent Reading (trade books)

  8. Scaffolded Instruction • Shared Reading- New strategies are introduced. • Guided Reading- Students are taught strategies that will help them to improve their reading skills and students apply what they have learned independently. • Independent Reading- Strategies are applied to a wide range of books.

  9. New Standards (www. corestandards.org) Common Core State Standards require a balance between fiction and nonfiction in reading. Shared Reading and Guided Reading Good Habits Great Readers (Pearson) Independent Reading NEW! Classroom Libraries (Booksource)

  10. Why Classroom Libraries? • Encourage wide reading as part of classroom instruction • Encourage students to read new genres • Facilitate community building • Build stamina in reading • Develop lifelong reading habits

  11. At Home Parents read • To their children • With their children • By children

  12. Reading at Home Parents model “good reading” behaviors • Oral reading fluency • Reading enjoyment • Discussion surrounding the book • Selection of books by genre or author • Lifelong reading habits • Using reading to learn about another topic

  13. Consider… • Sharing your thinking about reading. • Demonstrating strategies that you use when you find a text difficult to read. • Read a book in a new genre (outside of your comfort zone)! • Reading a book with your child that your child selects. • Having family reading time once a week.

  14. A few words about writing… • Writing Workshop based on Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Lucy Caulkins) • New!Units of Study boxes & Mentor Texts • A Curriculum Calendar for Writing Workshop for every grade level • A balance of writing narrative and expository writing • NEW! Persuasive Writing (Core Standards)

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