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Promoting
Literacy Skills at
Home:
Family Literacy Night
Agenda
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Why Families Matter
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Emergent Literacy
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What, Why and How
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Activity and Rotation Overview
6 stations, 15 minutes per station
Why Families Matter!
As your child’s primary caregiver you…
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Know your child better than anyone
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Are an expert on your child
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Have a great opportunity to demonstrate multiple purposes for literacy
INGHAM ISD Goal
Goal: 80% of students will reach the K readiness expectation for phonological
awareness as measured by TSGold objective 15
COR item N
Today’s Goal: Identify 1-3 phonemic awareness activities from Creative
Curriculum you are going to implement in your classroom.
Key Components of Emergent Literacy
Component
Description
Phonological Awareness
Babies, toddlers and preschoolers can learn to have fun with sounds!
Figuring out words that rhyme, coming up with words that share a beginning
sound, and saying silly words all help build a child’s phonological awareness;
that is, the ability to notice, think about, and play with sounds in words.
These skills will be used every time your child reads and writes! Can be done
in the dark
Alphabetic Principal
One strong predictor of success in reading is a child’s familiarity with the
letters of the alphabet. This includes knowing a letter’s name, shape and
sound. Most good alphabet activities help kids get practice in each area.
Awareness/Concepts of Print
Print awareness is understanding that print is organized in a particular way —
for example, knowing that print is read from left to right and top to bottom. It
is knowing that words consist of letters and that spaces appear between
words. Print awareness is a child's earliest introduction to literacy.
Reading Rockets
Key Components of Emergent Literacy
Component
Description
Early Writing Development
Children, even our youngest learners, enjoy putting crayon to
paper. What often starts as scribbling ends up being
important clues to a child’s understanding that print carries
meaning. Four-year olds often enjoy “writing” their name and
other special words like Mom, Dad, love, and you. Helping
your child develop writing readiness skills includes making
the most out of everyday writing and providing lots of
opportunity to practice!
Reading
Rockets
Oral Language Skills
Vocabulary & Comprehension
Kids who hear more words spoken at home learn more words
and enter school with better vocabularies. This larger
vocabulary pays off exponentially as a child progresses
through school. It’s never too soon to talk to your baby, and
make it interesting!
Reading Rockets
Practice Stations
Tech Center (Technology)
I Hear You ( Phonological Awareness)
What’s the Word ( Alphabetic Principle - Phonics)
Talk to Me ( Vocabulary)
I Understand (Comprehension & Concepts of Print)
Let’s Write (Emergent Writing)
Tech Center
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Family Learning Connection – Scavenger Hunt
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APPS
I Hear You (Phonological Awareness)
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Listen Up!
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First Sound Last Sound
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Picture Cards
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http://www.do2learn.com/picturecards/printcards/1inch/imagegridnoword/clot
hesbodypartsnoword.htm
What’s the
difference?
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Focuses on phonemes
Focuses on
(sounds)
phoneme(sound) /
Phonemic Awareness-What
grapheme (letter or letters)
associations
Deals with spoken
language
Deals with written
language
Auditory
Visual and Auditory
Students work with
Students work with reading
manipulating sounds and and spelling words using
sounds in words
phoneme/grapheme
associations
Hear the language
See text representing the
language
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What’s the word?! (Phonics)
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Super Hero Letter Match
Candyland Name Game
15 Ways to use Magnetic Letters
Alphabet Poster Activities
Letter Card Activities
Letter Hunt
Vocabulary
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All About Me!
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I Spy
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Twenty Questions
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Categories
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Tell Me About It!
Variations
Use pictures from your cell phone and follow the same process
Place objects in a clear bag or jar
I Understand (Comprehension & Concepts of Print)
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Five Finger Retell
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Story/Finger Puppet Activity
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Comprehension Sticks
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Environmental Print Matching Game
Let’s Write (Emergent Writing)
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Create a placemat for each person in family
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Make cards for different special events
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Everywhere a sign (post signs for students at home and students can copy
and/or make own sign)
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Mixed Media
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Finger painting
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Cans of water and different thicknesses of paintbrushes.
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Sponges, cotton swabs, toothpicks, toothbrushes and potato carvings are other
tools for mixed media writing activities. (Nina Makofsky)
Resources
Word Play Fun
Busy Buzzing Bumblebees & Other Tongue Twisters
Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives
Gooney Bird Greene
On Beyond Zebra
My Very First Mother Goose
Scranimals
Reading Rockets
Resources
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Alphabet Books are useful to read because they:
Support oral language development
Help children learn letter sequence
Help children associate a sound with a letter
Can help children build vocabulary
Reading Rockets
Resources
Family Resources
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The Home Literacy Behavior Checklist
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Finding Great Books When You Don’t Have a Great Budget
Instructional Resources
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Readingrockets.org
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Florida Center for Reading Research
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Beyond Bedtime Stories: A Parent’s Guide to Promoting Reading, Writing, and Other
Literacy Skills from Birth to 5 ,Scholastic, 2013.
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MDE PreK, Literacy & Math At Home Activities
http://www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1607,7-140--69358--,00.html