Reading practice to should happen on a daily basis.
Please take time out of youf busy schedule and read
to/with your child each night.
Please practice the 12 powerful words and UNRAAVEL with your child nightly.
Trace-outline
Analyze-break it down
Infer-read between the lines
Evaluate-to judge
Formulate-build, create
Describe-tell me all about it
Support-back it up
Explain-tell me why
Summarize-the short version
Compare-means alike
Contrast-means different
Predict-think about the future
U-underline the title
N-now predict the passage
R-run through and number
A-are you reading the questions
A-are the important words circled
V-venture (read) through the passage
E-eliminate the obvious wrong answer
L-let the question be answered
"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers ina wrod are. teh olny iprmoatnt thing is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. the rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit much porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid does not raed ervey letter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Often times we put the emphasis on the process rather than the result. Many of us only remember learning to sound words out when we were young. This research proves that is not how we truly learn to read. Sounding words out is ONE strategy of many. It actually can make reading more difficult for children because it isn't how our brain processes information! Our brain reads in chunks and that is the way we want our children to learn.
Why Your Child Should Read for 20 Minutes Every Day
Let's figure it out--mathematically!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
1st: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
2nd: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
3rd: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year.
Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade, if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Think about it:
Which student would you expect to...
read better?
know more?
write better?
have a better vocabulary?
be more successful in school....and in life?
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Thank You Mrs. Russ