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What is Reading Comprehension?

Reading Comprehension is the act of understanding what you are reading.  Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that happens before, during and after a person reads.  (What Is Reading Comprehension?, 2008)

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Classroom Activity 1: Guided Reading Beach Balls
Have your students throw, or roll, the guided reading beach ball and whatever part your thumb lands on you answer that question.  Whether you use a soccer ball or a beach ball both will appeal to your kinesthetic learners.  This will help students to recall what they read in the story.
(Reading Comprehension Games and Activities That Students Will Want to Play Over and Over, 2022)

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What is Vocabulary?
Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. Educators often consider four types of vocabulary: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
(Reading Rockets, 2013)

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Classroom Activity 2:  Roll and Retell
In partner activities or small groups, students roll the dice, then retell based on what it lands on.  Students must recall, different parts of the story.  (Reading Comprehension Games and Activities That Students Will Want to Play Over and Over, 2022)

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Home Activity:

Read aloud with your child every night. As you read, discuss topics and ask your child guiding questions about what's happening. What do they think will happen next? Which character would they most like to be friends with? What would they do if they were the main character? Asking open-ended questions, will help a child to comprehend what is going on during the story and will also support them as they recall information after the story. Make it fun so your child enjoys listening to stories. Let your child help select the stories so they are part of the learning experience.

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Classroom Activity 1: Using a variety of pictures, teachers can create thematic word banks.  Students should have access to these word banks to help develop a large vocabulary.  These word banks should be available during reading and writing activities to help develop a student's vocabulary development. (Reading Rockets, 2013)

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Classroom Activity 2:  Building Math Vocabulary
Using picture cards children will be able to broaden their math vocabulary.  Students will be able to classify objects by size, colors and shapes.  They will have pictures that develop their vocabulary regarding sizes and measurement.

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What are Phonics?  Phonics instruction teaches the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. (Reading Rockets, 2013)

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Home Activity: Involve your child in cooking activities at home.  Introduce your child to new vocabulary words as you do a cooking activity.  Introduce new words like apron, measure, mix, boil, cup, teaspoon, blend, scoop, bowl and spoon as you create something in your kitchen.  Making memories with your child helps them to remember new vocabulary words!

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What is Fluency? Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Fluent reading builds stamina for reading lengthy or complex texts. Reading fluency serves as a bridge between word recognition and comprehension (Reading Rockets, 2013a).

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What is Phonemic Awareness?
Phonemic Awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds that form words.
(LadyV1, 2021)

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Classroom Activity 1: Sand Letter Writing and Sounds!
Create a station that your students can work out using their fingers to draw letters in sand, after have the student say that sound that corresponds to the letter!

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Classroom Activity 2: Alphabet Bingo
Using small groups give each child a bingo card.  The teacher or support staff member will hold up letter cards.  Each time a student has the letter they will mark it off and say the corresponding sound.  Once all letters are marked off the student yells BINGO!!!

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Classroom Activity 1: Sentence Trees
Sentence trees are a great tool in the classroom to support a student in fluency. They allow kids to focus on each word, improving accuracy and speed along the way.

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Classroom Activity 1:  What is the Beginning Sound?
Using a dry erase writing activity children must say a word and write the begging sound letter.

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Home Activity: Bath time Letter Soup
When you give your child a bath, add fun letters to the bath.  they can be magnetic letters, foam letters, use shaving cream on the side of the bath so your child can even write letters.  You can ask them to find a specific letter and then ask them what sound that letter makes. Introducing letters in a fun environment is a great way to foster a love of learning!

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Reading Comprehension Website: Read Theory is a fun website to help improve

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ReadTheory | Reading Comprehension Exercises

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Reading comprehension exercises — online, free, & adaptive. Fits K-12, ESL and adult students. Easily track progress for the entire class.

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Classroom Activity 2: Putting Together Nursery Rhymes and Songs!
Create nursery rhyme or simple song puzzles by cutting out and laminating each word.  Have a card with the song or nursery rhyme so the students may use it as a reference.  Have the students put the song in order 1 word at a time and read each word as they go.

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Classroom Activity 2: Build an Ice-cream  Cone Rhyming Words
Children must look at the picture on the cone and find the matching rhyming words to build ice-cream cones.

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Vocabulary Website: This is a website that helps students build vocabulary by playing a variety of games. This website is for students in 1st through 8th grade.

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ESL Fun Vocabulary Games, EFL Interactive Vocabulary Exercises

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Home Activity:  Reading with a Partner (Parent, Care Giver, Sibling or anybody else willing to take the time to read with the child)
When kids are reading together or are reading to an adult, taking turns reading is a terrific way to get more fluent. When one reader is stronger, have them read the passage first and have the other reader echo it back. Have your child read to as many people as possible. The more they read the stronger they will be.

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Home Activity: Road Trip Rhyme Time
While you're out driving in the car, spot something out the window and ask your child, "what rhymes with tree or car or shop?" Then switch roles and have your child spot something and ask you for a rhyme. This can turn into a game of nonsense rhymes ("What rhymes with tree stump?") but that's great for practicing sounds, too! (Reading Rockets, 2020)

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ABC mouse had a variety of games for students to learn about phonics. There are interactive games and lots of songs that the child may interact with. There are also activities to support reading, math and the world around us!

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ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more! For kids ages 2 to 8.

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1. Gradual release of responsibility:  use the I do, we do, and you do Model to provide students with additional support.
2. Scaffolding:  provide students with a variety of support levels.  Some students may need 1:1 supports while another child may be able to work independently.
3.  Varied levels of text: Students will be able to follow along if the text is provided at their reading level
4.  Small Groups:  Grouping students so that a higher-level learner may be able to provide support to a student is struggling

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Fluency Website: Raz-Plus is a fun way to motivate students and help them build oral fluency, accuracy, and expression with engaging passages and scripts to read aloud.

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Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

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1. Add Movement:  Anytime you add a movement or gesture helps students to understand the meaning of the words.
2. Modify the amount of vocabulary words you introduce if you see a student is struggling.
3. ESL students: Provide Picture cards that correspond with the new vocabulary words.

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Phonemic Awareness Website: The Teach Your Monster to Read gives a child access to a variety of award-winning phonemic awareness games!

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1. Assess your students so you are familiar with their developmental levels,
2. Small Groups:  Create phonics activities that students can work on independently or done in a small group so that the teacher may provide intentional lessons and interventions.
3. Use Leveled Materials: Give the students the appropriate materials for their assessment levels and gradually increase the level of difficulty.
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1. Select a variety of reading passages based on a student's fluency level
2.  Provide guided reading groups
3. Appoint students to be Fluency leaders so they can set the fluency reading pace for their table.

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1.  Model Rhyming with students in small groups
2. Syllable Play:  Use shorter and simpler words if a student is struggling.
3.  Use the I do, we do, you do model.
4. Assess students and create small groups based on their abilities or consider pairing students that are independent and a student that is struggling so the independent learner can model for their peer.