Help Your Child Become A Better Reader

Emergent to Early Readers

Presented By:Mia Brower & Nicole Weyandt

Reynoldsburg City Schools

Review the five areas of literacy

Review phonemic awareness and phonics

Gain an understanding of advanced code

Gain and understanding of fluency

Leave with resources and strategies to promote reading at home

In Session 2 We Will…

Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Principle

◦Basic Code◦Advanced Code

Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension

The Big Five Ideas In Reading

Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness includes:◦Rhyming◦Isolating Sounds◦Sound Manipulation◦Segmenting of Sounds◦Blending of Sounds

What is phoneme segmentation?◦ The ability to break down words into individual

sounds◦ This skill is done without print◦ Black: /b/ /l/ /a/ /k/

Why is phoneme segmentation important?

Phoneme Segmentation

Slinky segmenting

Egg carton segmenting

Sorting by number of sounds

Activities For Phoneme Segmentation

ABC Reading Magic App

Segmenting Make And Take

Phonics Phonics is the idea that letters represent

sounds and the sounds go together to make words

Phonics includes basic and advanced code Basic code means that each sound is

represented by one letter (dog)◦Includes only short vowel sounds

Advanced code means that more than one letter can represent one sound (coat)◦Includes short and long vowel sounds

Why Nonsense Words? Nonsense words show that students are

using their letter-sound knowledge to accurately decode and blend words

Nonsense words ensure that a student hasn’t memorized common words such as “cat” and “top” by sight.

Order Of Development For Basic Code

CV, VC◦ co, at

CVC◦ big, nej

CCVC, CVCC◦ flat, spug, bump, lest

C = Consonant V= Vowel (a, e, i, o, u)

Activities For Basic Code

Strip 1◦ b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, y, z

Strip 2◦ a, e, i, o, u

Strip 3◦ b, c, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, v, x, z

Make & Take For Basic Code: 3 Sound Words

Consonants◦ b, c, d, f, g, j, k, m, n, p, s, t, v, x, z

Vowels◦ a, e, i, o, u

Beginning Blends◦ st, gl, br, fl, sp, cr, sk, gr

Ending Blends◦ nk, sp, st, nt, mp, pt, lt, nd

Make & Take For Basic Code: 4 Sound Words

Sort words into 4 columns from easiest to read to hardest to read

Word Sort

The ability to understand that sometimes two or more letters represent a sound.

The ability to understand that most sounds can be represented in more than one way

What Is Advanced Code?

Th◦ that, this, with

Sh◦ shop, wish, flash

Ch◦ chip, chimp, mulch

Wh◦ whim, which

Common Digraphs

o-e homeo gooa coatow yellowoe toeough dough

/oe/ Sound Pictures

a-e ape ai rain ay say ea steak ey grey eigh eight a paper ei reign aigh straight

/ae/ Sound Pictures

ee bee ea mean ie chief y happy e he i ski e-e these ey key

/ee/ Sound Pictures

i-e timeie criedi childigh nighty flyeigh height

/ie/ Sound Pictures

u-e muleu musicew fewue fuel

/ue/ Sound Pictures

float tape time be show I

day carry few though ate eight

tea straight lie mule keep hive

make music grey fuel these go

Can You Identify The Sound Pictures In These Words?

float tape time be show I

day carry few though ate eight

tea straight lie mule keep hive

make music grey fuel these go

How Did You Do?

Advanced Code Word BuildingMake And Take

Generating word list

Mapping

Flashcards

Writing words

Teaching Advanced Code

Words Sentences Passages/Books

Instructional Sequence

Do you want to change your answers?

Word Sort….Again

tic taps boat limitstip stop said insisthit stamp show tempermap slip snow mentiontap great

steakdoughthrough

Word Sort Answers

1. Basic Code (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant)

2. Adjacent Code (Consonant Blends)

3. Advanced Code (Long Vowels)

4. Multisyllabic Words

Rationale

Activities For Advanced Code

Connect Four

Guess Who

Speed Racer Poetry Bingo

Activities For Advanced Code

Advanced Code Make And Take

boat goal moan soap flow

broke drove coach goat grow

road doe choke froze snow

load roam foe chose blow

globe coat loaf roast dough

hope toe poke crow though

What Is Fluency?

A nonfluent reader puts a large amount of effort into decoding words.  By the time such a reader finishes a sentence, he or she may forget what the sentence was even about.  Comprehension is blocked because the process of decoding takes so much time and effort the short-term memory can’t grasp the fragmented input of information. 

By contrast, a fluent reader reads in smooth and continuous phrases and the brain can retain and comprehend what is read.

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Why Is Fluency Important?

While fluency alone will not guarantee strong reading comprehension skills, it is absolutely a necessary component. 

Not only is fluency important to oral reading, but successful silent reading requires fluent reading as well.

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Why Is Fluency Important?

Repeated Reading◦Student reads new passage while being

timed for one minute◦Student counts how many words were

read and subtracts the number of errors This is referred to as a cold score

◦Student graphs the number of words read correctly and colors with a blue crayon

◦Go over incorrect words with student

How To Improve Fluency

Repeated Reading Continued◦ Student reads the same passage again, and

again, and again, while being timed for one minute

◦ After the student has read many times and is able to use good accuracy, rate, expression, and punctuation, they are ready for their hot score

◦ Student reads the passage a final time while being timed for one minute and graphs the number of words read correctly

◦ Student colors their hot score in red

How To Improve Fluency

Partner Reading Take turns reading a sentence or page

Choral Reading Read out loud together at the same time

Echo Reading One person reads then the other person

echoes the sentence that was just read

Ways To Do Repeated Reading

Reading in different voices

Fluency phrases

Poetry

Recorded readings

Modeling fluent reading

Activities For Fluency

Questions

March 12, 2014

Waggoner Road Middle School

6:00-8:00 PM

When Will You See Us Again?

Mia Brower◦ mbrower@reyn.org◦ www.mrsbrower.weebly.com◦ Twitter: @BrowerHMTigers◦ Facebook: www.facebook.com/mrsbrowerHMTigers

Nicole Weyandt◦ nweyandt@reyn.org◦ www.missweyandt.weebly.com◦ Twitter: @WeyandtHMtigers◦ Facebook: www.facebook.com/MissWeyandtsRoom

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