1. Reading at Home Kindergarten - Grade 2
Presented By:
Stephanie Byrne and Karen Wallace
Steph
Thank parents for sacrificing precious evening time to attend these presentations
Goal is to share information about reading expectations in the primary grades, and provide resources to support reading at home

2. Karen
Think back to when your children were 2-3 or even 4 years old – is this what your reading looked like?

3. Luke Learns to Read
Karen- While the video we are going to share with you speaks directly to a kindergartener or pre-k student, it shows us very good examples of what those early reading behaviors truly look like. What you will see is Luke’s attempt to use the picture to predict a word – he clearly knows that letters make up words and sometimes he even self corrects some of his predictions.
This is what early reading looks like. What “Gentle reminders” did you notice?

4. Reading at Home in Kindergarten
Importance of reading to your child
Pretend reading
Early reading strategies
“Gentle reminders”
January book clubs
Steph
Create a nightly routine
Start a collection box for well-loved/familiar books
Early literacy includes inventing text, retelling well-loved stories, memorizing
1-1 matching, making initial sound then checking picture, holding on to patterns in early level texts
Supportive prompts if needed
Guided reading lessons in winter, books coming home on child’s reading level

5. Reading at Home in 1st Grade
Reading bags/envelopes
Time frame
They can do it!
Using early strategies
Picture Support
3 ways we read
Karen
By now, many of your children have already started bringing home not one, but two separate reading bags to share books at home. These books should be what we call in school, “familiar” reads that children can read without any support from you. Their reading should only take about 5 minutes. We mention here that “they can do it” because we truly believe they can. Here are some things you should look for when they read with you:
*They can match words with what they say – and finger point along the way
*They can identify basic sight words in text
*They have an understanding of directionality
*They know when something has gone wrong – even if they can’t fix it on their own – they still know
Picture support is good! Just remember that in 1st grade – author’s put the pictures there for a reason – to help tell the story.
As part of our 1st grade Daily Five routine – all students are taught the three ways we read a book. When given time to independently read, they will do a little of each…

6. Reading at Home in 2nd Grade
More choice in book selection
Allow time to read together
Model thinking to decode tricky words
Choral and echo reading
Time for discussion
Encourage looking for known parts within unknown words
Encourage the use of multiple strategies
Encourage engagement
Make predictions and connections
Notice when it does not make sense
Reading at Home in 2nd Grade
Steph
Becoming much more independent
Being involved emphasizes importance of reading
Instead of jumping in to help, remind child to try something first: look for parts, look right, sound right, make sense
goal is to be able to use a variety of strategies quickly and flexibly
Engagement keeps that inner dialogue going- not just word calling, allows for self-monitoring to begin

7. eBooks, Successnet, Tumblebooks
Steph
Titus library: Lightbox, eBooks
Pearson Successnet: need teacher to create an account
Bucks County Libraries: Tumblebooks

8. Central Bucks Leveled Books
Karen-
Students in K-2 are taught to read through the use of leveled books. As the levels increase, as does the complexity of text.

9. District Benchmarks Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Fall- November
N/A
Level 6
Level 18
Winter-January
Level 10
Level 24
Spring-June
Level 4
Level 28-30
Karen – show models of text