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What is vocabulary and how does it make students strong readers?

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What is vocabulary and how does it make students strong readers?

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Vocabulary supports strong confident readers. Parents can help students build vocabulary by reading together, use new words in conversations and playing word games.

To learn more about vocabulary and how it builds strong confident readers click the link above to watch the short video.

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Phonics is a key part of learning how to read. The video above will give you an explanation of what phonics is and how you can help your student build these foundational skills at home.

In the video you will learn how letters and sounds come together to form words. Phonics is important as it teaches students to recognize letter sounds and decode new words. Phonics supports strong spelling and helps students with accuracy and comprehension when reading.

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Phonics -  Everything Parents Need to Know

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Reading comprehension is key to building strong, confident readers.

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Reading comprehension is key to building strong, confident readers.

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Click the above video for an explanation of comprehension and how it plays a critical role in a child's ability to become a strong reader.

Reading comprehension plays a critical role in a child's ability to become a strong reader as it involves understanding and interpreting the meaning behind the words used in a text. Comprehension builds critical thinking skills as a child must make connections, ask questions and reflect on what they have read.

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Comprehension is the reason for reading. If readers can read the words but do not understand or connect to what they are reading, they are not really reading. Good readers are both purposeful and active, and have the skills to absorb what they read, analyze it, make sense of it, and make it their own.

Strong readers think actively as they read. They use their experiences and knowledge of the world, vocabulary, language structure, and reading strategies to make sense of the text and know how to get the most out of it. They know when they have problems with understanding and what thinking strategies to use to resolve these problems when they pop up.

Teachers can play a critical role in helping students develop their comprehension skills. Reading research has shown that comprehension instruction can help students do a better job of understanding and remembering what they read. Good instruction can also help students communicate with others, verbally and in writing, about what they've read.

What good readers do

Draw on prior knowledge. Good readers draw on prior knowledge and experience to help them understand what they are reading.

Draw inferences. In addition to understanding the literal points that the author is making, good readers are able to "read between the lines" and draw inferences about a wide range of hidden meanings, such as why events are unfolding as they do, why characters behave in a certain way, what the characters are thinking, and what might happen next.

Self-monitor. During reading, good readers learn to monitor their understanding, adjust their reading speed to fit the difficulty of the text, and address any comprehension problems they have. After reading, they check their understanding of what they have read. Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they're reading and when they don't.

Form mental images. Good readers often form mental pictures, or images, as they read. Readers (especially younger readers) who picture the story during reading understand and remember what they read better than readers who do not create a picture in their mind.

Summarize and retell. Summarizing requires students to determine what is important in the text and then put it into their own words by retelling, verbally or in writing. Instruction in summarizing can help students become more purposeful as they read and more skillful in comprehending. Summarizing can help students to:

Identify main ideas orally or in writing.

Connect the main or central ideas orally or in writing.

Learn to weed out unnecessary information.

Remember what they have read.

Can your child tell you what happened in the story?

This video is from Home Reading Helper, a resource for parents to elevate children's reading at home provided by Read Charlotte . Find more video, parent activities, printables, and other resources at Home Reading Helper .

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Comprehension is understanding what you read - the goal of reading! It is the thinking process readers use to understand what they read. Strong vocabulary, background knowledge, and an understanding of how language works are keys to comprehension.

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What is Phonemic Awareness and Why is it Important

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What is Phonemic Awareness and Why is it Important

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. It is one of the most important skills children need in order to become strong readers and writers. When children learn how to recognize letters and sounds they are able to read more easily and with confidence. Click the link above to watch the video explanation of phonemic awareness. This video explains it in simple terms and provides practical tips you can do at home to help your child improve these skills.

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Phonemic Awareness Practice - Digital Resource

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Phonemic Awareness Practice - Digital Resource

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This video reminds us that how we say our letters matters. The video helps to guide how to say letters correctly and not add additional sounds when saying a letter. Click above to learn more.

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This is free learning app that will help your student to practice letter -sound connections. Click on the learn to read icon to practice.

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SplashLearn - Fun Math & ELA Learning Program for PreK-Grade 5

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SplashLearn is an award-winning learning program loved by over 40 million kids for engaging Math and ELA practice. Aligned with Common Core and various state standards.

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An important aspect of phonemic awareness is rhyming. Words that rhyme have the same middle and ending sound. Print the following worksheet and complete with your student.

You can extend this practice by playing an "I Spy" rhyming game with your child. Take turns spying something in the room like "I spy a cat", then your student can repeat back to you I spy a cat and then add a owrd that rhymes with it like the word bat." Take turns going back and forth.

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What fluency looks like for a Kindergartner 

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What fluency looks like for a Kindergartner 

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Click on the video to see how you help your student read fluently in kindergarten. Help your student to recognize punction stops like commas and periods.

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Does your kindergartner read smoothly like this? - Milestones from GreatSchools

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Phonics helps students to recognize letters (graphemes) match sounds (phonemes). This worksheet helps students identify and recognize words that have the same beginning sound.

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Explanation of Fluency and why it is important to students. 

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Explanation of Fluency and why it is important to students. 

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Reading fluency is another key component of reading and plays an important role in your student's reading development. Fluency means you read accurately, at a pace that feels comfortable and with expression. Students who read fluently do not have to focus on decoding words and can concentrate on the meaning of what they are reading. Fluency builds confidence and comprehension. Click on the video above to learn more about fluency.

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Sentence pyramids are a helpful tool that builds reading fluency with young readers. The sentence pyramid starts with simple words and build up to longer more complex sentences. As students gain confidence with each new line they are more likely to attempt more challenging lengthy sentences.

Print the above sentence pyramids and practice have your child practice reading with you.

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Fluency is when you can read accurately at a comfortable pace without stopping to have to sound out words and with expression. When a student is fluent with their reading they can concentrate on understanding the content they are reading.

Click on the link above to take you to activities you can work on at home with your student. These are simple activities that require little to no materials. Just print and go or work directly from the link.

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Digital resource to help build vocabulary with your child.

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Digital resource to help build vocabulary with your child.

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Any time is a great time to introduce vocabulary. This video will give you ideas on how to introduce new vocabulary to your child.

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Reading SOS: How can I help my four year old learn more words?

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A great resource for ideas on how to build your child's vocabulary at home.

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Homophones are words that sound alike but are spelled differently. Use this activity to practice new vocabulary with your student.

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Print this comprehension handout to help guide your child at the end of a story you read together. This handout will help guide you with comprehension questions.

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This is a great activity you can do with your kindergartener after reading together. Print pages and cut out. Allow student to illustrate or write short answers to the questions. These retell wheel activities are a great way to see if they understood the text.