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Check for Evidence-Based Reading Instruction

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Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

Learning to read begins at home through everyday interactions with children, long before they attend school. Your continued support of literacy development as children enter elementary school and progress through the grades positively affects their reading ability. We are pleased to provide these Family Activities with easy-to-follow instructions to help your child practice foundational reading skills. We invite you to view the short Family Videos for tips on how to use the activities to help your child grow as a reader. Using the Family Activities at home can help your child develop language, link sounds to letters, blend letters and word parts to read and write words, and read for understanding.

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REL Resource | Supporting Your Child's Reading at Home

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Learning to read begins at home through everyday parent-child interactions, long before children attend school. Your continued support of literacy development throughout elementary school positively affects your child's reading ability.

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Families want to help their children become strong readers but don't always know where to start.

At the Mississippi Department of Education, we provide the necessary resources, activities and information, so you can help your children become strong readers and strong leaders.

The activities you will find are useful to all students at all levels. Families can move within the grades to provide their children with the activities that are on their level.

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We provide the necessary resources, activities and information, so you can help your children become strong readers and strong leaders. Get started today.

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A Website to Support Young Readers

The adults who spend time with students out of school time need more information about what reading skills students are learning throughout the year, and effective strategies to practice and support learning.

We created Oakland Reads to help bridge that gap.

Watch a short video to learn more:

You can explore this site in two different ways: ​

Look at the Reading Skills Overview page to learn about how reading works and the different skills that children need to develop to become successful readers.

From there, you can check out the individual reading skills for more in-depth explanations, resources and activities you can do at home.

Explore the Age/ G rade Level Milestones page to learn about what the milestones are and how you can support them at home.

Explore by early years or elementary years to find out what reading looks and sounds like at a particular age, and what specific skills children need to master.

REMEMBER EACH CHILD IS UNIQUE

Each Child Will Progress Differently:

Your child may still be learning skills from a previous grade or may have already mastered the grade-level milestones in this document. The goal is for your child to have access to grade level instruction while receiving individualized support where it is needed. Talk to your teacher about your child's specific needs.

Talking to your child about their learning will help them even if you didn't learn the same content in school.

Considering all our children have to learn in school, it can be challenging to know how best to help them. The good news is that you don't have to know everything!

You can ask questions about books they are reading or teach them to do math the way you learned it. This will help your child process their learning and consider different ways of approaching a problem.

HOW CAN I KNOW IF MY CHILD IS ON TRACK?

OUSD schools will test your child's reading three times a year using iReady. Results should be given to families. The results will indicate the specific skills your child should learn to become a great reader.

Learn More About iReady

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Oakland Reads is a resource to bridge learning beyond the classroom and equip parents and community partners with the tools and resources to understand whether their kids are on track in reading and how to effectively support them.

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Tips to Identify Evidence-Based Practices

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Tips to Identify Evidence-Based Practices