1. WELCOME PARENTS نرحب بالاهالي TO FOURTH GRADE PARENT MEETING MS. BAZZI Mrs. Rizk الى اجتماع صف الرابع مس بزي مس رزق

2. 1.Importance of Education 2.Appreciate What they have اهمية التعليم تقدير ما لديهم I Am Malala (Video)

3. THE MORE THAT YOU READ, THE MORE THINGS YOU WILL KNOW. THE MORE THAT YOU LEARN, THE MORE PLACES YOU’LL GO. ---DR. SEUSS Why Reading? لماذا نقرأ؟

4. Agenda جدول الاجتماع 1. Reading Activity 2. Why We Are Here Today? ما هو سبب الاجتماع 3. School Updates ما هي اخر المستجدات في المدرسة 4. SRI/DRA-Levels and Expectations امتحانات القراءة 5. Café Strategies اساليب مفيدة في القراءة

5. WHAT DID YOU READ TODAY? ماذا قرأت اليوم؟ O INSIDE THE HOUSE: داخل المنزل : O OUTSIDE THE HOUSE: خارج المنزل :

6. Today We Will Learn: CONTENT OBJECTIVES: Students and Parents will demonstrate comprehension of café strategies to improve their reading skills by using different graphic organizers. LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES: Students and parents will practice different comprehension strategies using graphic organizers, retelling, asking questions, and using text features.

7. SCHOOL UPDATES مستجدات المدرسة O BLOGS الموقع الالكتروني O WEEKLY OBJECTIVES المواضيع والمنهاج الاسبوعي O DAILY HOMEWORK الواجبات اليومية O SCHOOL HAPPENINGS النشاطات والاحداث المدرسية

8. READING UPDATES مستجدات في برنامج القراءة O BOOK BAGS حقيبة القراءة O READING LOGS جدول القراءة O DRA/SRI/Sample امتحان القراءة O PARENT CONTRACT تعهد الاهل

9. Fourth Grade SRI/Lexile Reading Chart Below Grade Level At Grade LevelAbove Grade Level 599 and Below600-699700 and above

10. Beginning and End of Year Reading Benchmarks 4 th Grade 1 st November 2 nd January 3 rd March 4 th June Exceeding (1) 40445060 Meeting (2) 38404450 Progressing (3) 34384044 Concern (4) 30 and Below 343840

11. SRI Sample Questions نموذج من اسئلة امتحان القراءة 1. Violet headed back to her room. Castles were scary places, too, she thought. The top of the stairs looked awfully dark. Violet scolded herself. “If I’m going to be staying in a castle, I had better get used to it. I will just watch my feet. Then I won’t notice the dark so much.” Violet will try to be: a. Young b. Brave c. Correct d. proud 2. The Mayflower was a good, strong, sailing ship. She was about ninety feet long-about as long as two big trailer trucks. And she was a clean-smelling ship, not like most of the ships of that time. The Mayflower was: a. Sturdy b. Tiny c. Common d. wrecked

12. Current Reading Levels/DRA Fall 2013 Exceeding/Above (1) 13 Meeting/On (2) 15 Progressing (3) 8 Concern/Below (4) 18

13. CAFÉ MENU TRANSITIONAL READERS COMPREHENSHION Use prior knowledge to connect with text Make and adjust predictions; use text to confirm Infer and support with evidence Make a picture or mental image Monitor and fix up: check for understanding /back up and reread Ask questions throughout the reading process Use text features (titles, headings, captions, graphic features) Summarize text; include sequence of main events Use main idea and supporting details to determine importance Determine and analyze author’s purpose and support with text Recognize literacy elements (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution, theme) Recognize and explain cause-and-effect relationships Compare and contrast within and between text ACCURACY Abundant easy reading Look carefully at letters and words Cross checking… do the pictures and/or words look right? Do they sound right? Do they make sense? Flip the sound Use the pictures… do the words and pictures match? Use beginning and ending sounds Blend sounds; stretch and reread Chunk letters and sounds together Skip the word, then come back Trade a word/guess a word that makes sense Recognize words at sight FLUENCY Voracious reading Read appropriate- level texts that are a good fit Reread text Practice common sight words and high- frequency words Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc.) Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling EXPAND VOCABULARY Voracious reading Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams Use word parts to determine the meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations, etc.) Ask someone to define the word for you Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools

15. MODEL THE STRATEGY O RETELLING THE STORY ORALLY (Use The Story Wheel and a book from your child’s book bag) اعادة سرد الاحداث في القصة واستعمال الاسئلة

16. Summarizing Text تلخيص الكتاب \ القصة 1.What is a Summary? When I summarize, I tell in my own words the important things I have read. I can use the cloze paragraph or stem sentences.

17. MODEL THE STRATEGY جسد الاسلوب O MAKING A SUMMARY (Read the article/Highlight the important ideas) تلخيص الاحداث في القصة

18. Cloze Paragraph/Stem Sentences The article_______ was about_____. I learned___________. It also discussed____________. Another thing it discussed was_______. They were important because _________.

19. MODEL THE STRATEGY O USING NONFICTION/EXPOSITORY TEXT FEATURES استعمال مكونات النص المعلوماتي لتعزيز الاستيعاب O HOW DOES THIS STRATEGY HELP YOU UNDERSTAND SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES? كيف تساعد هذا الاسلوب في العلوم والاجتماعيات؟

20. Model The Strategy Asking Questions (using the 5 Ws or the Check Mark) طرح الاسئلة خلال عملية القراءة

21. Questions/Concerns الاسئلة