Dr. Seuss

      CLASSROOM HIGHLIGHTS! 

As the school's Reading Interventionist, I am very pleased to be working with students in an intensive reading program. With the use of Read Alouds, Vocabulary Building, Reader's Theater, Poetry, Choral Reading, Modeling, Fluency exercises, and Writing activities, students are enhancing strategies that will benefit them for a lifetime. 

Helpful hints and suggestions  to use with your children:

*  Select a novel with your child that you both will read and discuss. Book Talks are wonderful ways to gain meaning from text and to share opinions about text read.

* Have your child keep a journal on novels that he or she reads. In their writing have them include questions, interesting points, character traits, predictions, etc. about their novels.

* Invite your child to share information written in their journals with you.

*  Guide them in using Prior Knowledge- Explain to them that good readers use what they already know about a topic to help them understand text.

* Ask your child to rate the books they read and tell what they liked or disliked about them.

* Have you child read books from different literary genres:  folktales, poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction 

 Ask your child about the connections they make when reading text:

Text-to-Text (How a passage or book relates to or reminds them of another book or article they have read)

Text-to-Self ( How passages in the book/article remind them of events in their own life)

Text-to-World (How a passage may relate to events in the world and within their environment)

*METHODS TO USE WHEN READING*

*Scanning:  When glancing down pages to find specific      fact or definition

*Skimming:  When looking for a main idea or previewing a selection

*Rapid Reading: When reading fiction or fairly easy material to find important facts

 At Ewing, we are "Building Relationships".

                                 Students...

Spread Your Wings and Fly!