Author: Alison

Home Environment

Make your home
ready for reading!
A language rich environment influences children’s literacy and provides children with interactions where they can listen and see others read, interact with reading and writing materials, ask questions and have their questions answered. Literate environments make children aware of what they are able to do with print.
The home environment needs to have book accessible to children.
Literacy should occur naturally in daily routines. Examples: drawings or writings to share ideas, writing lists, composing notes or letters, reading, and storytelling.

Reading Strategy Friends

Stuck On A New Word?
	Look at the pictures / -Look at the picture / for clues
	Get your lips ready / -Say first sounds / -Read & say it again
	Stretch it out / -Stretch word out / -Put sounds together
	Chunk the Word / -Look for word chunk / -Look for a word part
	Skip It, Skip It / -Skip the word / -Read to the end / -Hop back & read it
	Try it again / -Try to reread / -Try a new word
	Ask for help / -Ask for help after / you have tried the / other strategies

Nightly Reading Guide for Parents

Pre-Reading

Reading the book

After Reading

* Cover of book
-What is this book about?
-Read the title to child
* Book Walk
-Discuss essential vocab. in text and in pictures
-Read names of characters
-Make predictions
* Remind your child something to try
Examples:
-Read smoothly
-If you make a mistake, go back and fix it
-Point to the words as you read
-Use your strategies if you get stuck on a word

* Voice—Print Match
-Point to words
* Encourage Reading Strategies
-What strategy should we use?
-Did that make sense?
-Let me read it and see if you can figure it out.
-Let’s read that page again.
* Allow plenty of time for child to think through the words
* Praise self-corrections!
* Tell your child something they did well!

* Re-tell the story
- in sequence
- names of characters
- all important events
- use language of the story
* Make connections
- What did this story remind you of?
- What was your favorite part? Why?
* Read book again for fluency
Practice:
- Read it to a pet
- Read it to a different person
- Read it to a stuffed animal
- Video tape it