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Welcome to

FAMILY READ!

September 1, 2023

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Foundational Skills

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Foundational skills are

The building blocks for reading and writing

And crucial to students’ success in literacy

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Foundational Skills

Print Concepts

Phonological Awareness

Phonics & Word Recognition

Fluency

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Print Concepts

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Or Concepts of Print

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Key Ideas: Print Concepts

Features of print

Organization of Print

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  • Letter recognition

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  • Left to right
  • Top to bottom
  • One-to-one correspondence

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Key Ideas: Print Concepts

Features of print

Organization of Print

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  • Letter recognition

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  • Left to right
  • Top to bottom
  • One-to-one correspondence

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How You Can Help at Home

  • Ask your child where to begin reading on the page
  • Have your child follow along with their finger as you read
  • Have your child point to the first/last words of the text.
  • Show left to right movement on the text
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Phonological Awareness

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Key Idea: Phonological Awareness

  • Ability to hear, recognize and play with sounds in the spoken language
  • Oral building blocks for reading

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How You Can Help at Home

  • Rhyme Time: I’m thinking of an animal that rhymes with “big.” What’s the animal?
  • Silly tongue twisters
  • Blend sounds into words: Can you guess what this word is /m/o/p/?
  • Picture Slide game

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Phonemic Awareness

  • Subgroup of phonological awareness that only focuses on PHONEMES, the smallest unit of speech
  • Strongest predictor of reading success

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How You Can Help at Home

  • Syllable Shopping
  • “I Spy” blending: I see a sign that says, /d/o/g/
  • Extra! Extra! Ask your child to find and cut out all the words in a newspaper or magazine that she can read. Glue or tape them onto a piece of paper and practice reading them together.

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How many phonemes are in the English language?

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Phonics and Word Recognition

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Phonics

  • Sound and spelling patterns to be able to recognize and decode words in print

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How You Can Help at Home

  • Dig into Decodable books
  • Blend It!
    • Write out a single letter blend
    • Name a common object that starts with that sound
  • Scrambled Words:
    • Draw three boxes side by side on a piece of paper. Using magnetic letters or letters written on paper, scramble the letters of a simple three-letter word (big, bug, top, ran) under the boxes. Have your child unscramble the letters and place them into the correct box.

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Fluency

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Fluency

  • Reread favorite books
  • Record
  • Paired/buddy reading
  • Choral reading (reading in unison)

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