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Home Support | UF Literacy Institute

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Home Support

The UFLI Foundations program includes Home Practice sheets to help families support their child's learning at home. This Home Support Guide explains how to use these UFLI Foundations Home Practice sheets.

The Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat are designed to be sent home along with the Home Support Guide. Families can use these paper tiles as manipulative letters for home practice with word work. Printing them on card stock makes them easier to use.

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The UFLI Foundations program includes Home Practice sheets to help families support their child's learning at home. This Home Support Guide explains how to use these UFLI Foundations Home Practice sheets. The Printable Alphabet Tiles and Mat are designed to be sent home along with the Home Support Guide.

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UFLI - Google Drive

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Intermediate Word Work Mat (ufl.edu)

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Beginner Word Work Mat (ufl.edu)

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Irregular Word Cards - Printable FINAL (ufl.edu)

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Parent Resource Hub | UF Literacy Institute

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Welcome to the University of Florida Literacy Institute's Parent Resource Hub! This collection of web-based language and literacy resources was compiled and curated by UFLI faculty and graduate students. We are adding to and refining these resources regularly, so check back often!

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Welcome to the University of Florida Literacy Institute's Parent Resource Hub! This collection of web-based language and literacy resources was compiled and curated by UFLI faculty and graduate students. We are adding to and refining these resources regularly, so check back often!

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Pre-Kindergarten | Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr.org)

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Pre-Kindergarten | Florida Center for Reading Research

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Teacher Resource Guide | Alphabet Knowledge | Phonological Awareness | Language & Vocabulary

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Phonemic Awareness Activities for Parents | Heggerty

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Encourage your child to listen for words that rhyme when you say them aloud, such as fun, sun; hat, cat; and fish, wish. See if your child can produce new words that rhyme with the words you say-fan, pan, ran, can, tan.

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Phonemic Awareness Activities for Parents | Heggerty

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Research shows that phonemic awareness is the strongest predictor of success in learning to read. Heggerty offers literacy activities for families.

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Kindergarten and First Grade | Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr.org)

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Kindergarten and First Grade Student Center Activities Phonological Awareness | Phonics | Fluency | Vocabulary | Comprehension

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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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Sound Play: Echo with Tickle — Carolyn H. Strom, PhD (carolynstrom.com)

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Sound Play: Echo with Tickle — Carolyn H. Strom, PhD

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Phonological awareness games go remote with Tickle!

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Scarborough’s Reading Rope: A Groundbreaking Infographic - International Dyslexia Association (dyslexiaida.org)

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Hollis Scarborough-creator of the famous Reading Rope and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories-is a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy.

Dr. Scarborough's association with the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) goes back to 1994 when she served as associate editor of the Annals of Dyslexia until 2002. In 2009, she received IDA's highest honor, the Samuel Torrey Orton Award. Dr. Scarborough continues her IDA affiliation as a member of both IDA's Council of Advisors and IDA's Scientific Advisory Board. Her contributions on a national level (e.g., the Research Council, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, and the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children) have positively influenced the reading instruction in the United States.

The genesis of the Reading Rope dates back to Scarborough's lectures for parents on the complexities involved in learning to read. Originally, she spoke of skilled reading as resembling the "strands" of a rope, using pipe cleaners to illustrate the interconnectedness and interdependence of all the components.

The Reading Rope consists of lower and upper strands. The word-recognition strands (phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition of familiar words) work together as the reader becomes accurate, fluent, and increasingly automatic with repetition and practice. Concurrently, the language-comprehension strands (background knowledge, vocabulary, language structures, verbal reasoning, and literacy knowledge) reinforce one another and then weave together with the word-recognition strands to produce a skilled reader. This does not happen overnight; it requires instruction and practice over time.

Infographics are visual presentations with minimal text that help make complex information easy to digest, remember, and share. They have been around for years, but digital tools and social media have increased their proliferation. At IDA, we harness the power of infographics to make complex material accessible to a wide audience-the families, educators, advocates, researchers, and policymakers who need good information for effective decision making and collaboration on behalf of those who struggle to learn to read.

For many children, learning to read is a challenging undertaking. The Reading Rope, created by Dr. Hollis Scarborough, captures the essence of this task. We are thrilled that Dr. Scarborough has granted us permission to display the seminal Reading Rope in our gallery. One of the first and best infographics in the field, the Reading Rope is brilliant in its simplicity, but profound in its instructional implications. Now it is easy for you to share!

The image, courtesy of the author, originally appeared in the following publication: Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Copyright © 2018 International Dyslexia Association (IDA). Opinions expressed in The Examiner and/or via links do not necessarily reflect those of IDA. We encourage sharing of Examiner articles. If portions are cited, please make appropriate reference. Articles may not be printed for the purpose of resale. Permissionto republish this artilce is available from info@dyslexiaida.org.

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Scarborough's Reading Rope: A Groundbreaking Infographic - International Dyslexia Association

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Share This: Hollis Scarborough-creator of the famous Reading Rope and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories-is a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy. Dr. Scarborough's association with the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) goes back to 1994 when she served as associate editor of the Annals of Dyslexia until 2002.

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Learning to Read: A Rhyme - Carolyn H. Strom, PhD

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Learning to Read: A Rhyme Music and Lyrics by Carolyn Strom & Alastair Ottesen

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Reading Adventure Packs for Families | Reading Rockets

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Our themed reading adventure packs encourage hands-on fun, creativity, and learning centered around paired fiction and nonfiction books.

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It's not an easy thing, learning to read and write. Discover what it takes to build important literacy skills, and how you can help your children grow as readers, writers, and thinkers!

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Second and Third Grade | Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr.org)

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Second Grade and Third Grade Student Center Activities Phonemic Awareness | Phonics | Fluency | Vocabulary | Comprehension

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Advancing Science of Reading in the Early Years - K–5 Literacy Program & Curriculum | Amplify CKLA - YouTube

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Advancing Science of Reading in the Early Years - K–5 Literacy Program & Curriculum | Amplify CKLA

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Fourth and Fifth Grade | Florida Center for Reading Research (fcrr.org)

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Fourth and Fifth Grade | Florida Center for Reading Research

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Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade Student Center Activities Advanced Phonics | Fluency | Vocabulary | Comprehension