Ms. Latilo’s Classroom Newsletter September 5, 2017 S COMPONENTS OF READING ‘+ Phonemic Awareness: Mentilying individual sounds from spoken words ‘*Phonies: Sounding out a word when written Vocabulary Development: Ability 0 store information about meaning and pronunciation of words needed to understand content Fluency: Ability to read text with accuracy, speed, expression and ‘comprebension ‘© Comprehension: Ability to understand, remember and explain what was read to thers ‘Dear Parents, ‘Thank you in advance for partnering with me as we work towards ensuring your child has a sucoossfil grad 5 year! ach month the classroom newsletter will provide information on atopic. This Ry Lancs ‘month the fous wil be on literacy. This nowslter will ineludo information on the Reading i essential for leaning, Being able ‘importance of reading and the components of ‘to read allows your child explore diferent leaming to ead. [will alo be sharing with topics and ads them as they formulate their you how you ean help Sour ehild improve ‘own opinions about the word around them, their eading, Being’ reader allows students 0 discover So topics and go.an adventures they may not leg EM cra ode ong te eee eens ae sill ipies Lavy wot Epstaas Be eacegens aol Aes cnn ose a Nampula eee eared aa aa aed aa Reading also something thats present in al subject areas ram Word problems In ‘math o paragraphs aber history in Social Stules or novel studies in LA elassroom. ‘As your child works. gn thai reading sisi ‘the classroom tis year the import ach student i ferent, so Lam commited reading should abs Bgodgetet rt oe to giving students the suppor they need. “This canbe donb discussing wis seadine ook forward to geting know both you is imporant and exemplifying. and your child asthe soo! year progresses! ecole oe wh ere ‘fin as posible ee‘The strategies below will be used in class to help your child improve their reading. encourage you to use these at home as well © Activating Background Knowledge This involves helping readers identify ‘what they already know about what they'll be reading about. This will help the reader make connections as they read, © Visualizing I believe this is important asa pre= reading activity. Before stating the ‘book, students will be asked to draw a picture of the main character based on inferences from the cover of the book, At home, you ean ask your child to simply describe the characters to you. © Questioning ‘This involves getting the readers to ask ‘questions before, during and after they read, Its important to slay away from questions that can be answered with @ yes/no, I suggest using the 5 W's and I H to prompt questions. (Who, what, ‘when, where, why & how). © Summarizing ‘This is important in order to ensure the reader understands what has been read. 1 ‘will be asking students to summarize the big ideas of each book that is read in class. This skill helps students with comprehension ‘These strategies will be used as we read {together in elass. Students will also be ‘given the opportunity to discover what ‘gentes of literature they enjoy reading. a s Se di shaning ie a ee ee rte will iso be isting some ofthe books we will bbe reading together asa class. Recommended Reading List Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection by Jeff Kinney Geronimo Stilton Collection by Elisabetta Dami Ga dT a | Neg : a Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Here a few of the books we'll be reading in elass ‘+ Holes by Louis Sachar «Number the Stars by Lois Lowry i + Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo