Text Box: Helping your child learn to read is as easy as… Text Box: 1. Reading Together 2. Reading Every Day 3. Using Reading     Strategies Text Box: Suggested Resources: Websites: www.pbskids.org www.storylineonline.net www.brainpopjr.com www.starfall.com Mayo’s Odyssey web-site (Link on home page) Great Books: Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel—Leslie Conner Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones—Ruth Heller The Snowy Day—Ezra Jack Keats The Polar Express—Chris Van Allsburg Chester’s Way—Kevin Henkes If You Give a Moose a Muffin—Laura Numeroff The Relatives Came—Cynthia Rylant The Napping House—Don & Audrey Wood The Wednesday Surprise—Eve Bunting Ira Sleeps Over—Bernard Waber Love You Forever—Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw Junie B. Jones series   Text Box:   Mayo Elementary 1300 Springdale Lane Mayo, SC 29368 Phone: (864) 461-2622 Contact: Julie Vinesett  Literacy Coach Fax: (864) 578-8924 Text Box: The Road to Reading Learning to read is a gradual process.  When your child began to recognize environmental print, like a McDonalds sign, they took their first step to becoming a reader.  This is followed by “memory reading” when your child would retell a favorite story.  During the first few months of school your child will be immersed in pattern books where only one or two words change on each page.  As your child learns and becomes more confident in their sight word recognition, they will choose to read books that have more variety.  Learning to read is just like learning to play a sport.  You must practice, a lot, to get better at it!  The more support your child has at home the quicker they will become a fluent reader.  As you read with and to your child engage them in the story and do not hesitate to read a story over and over again!  Text Box: Help Your Child Learn to Read: Becoming a reader involves the development of important skills, including learning to: · Use language in conversation · Listen and respond to stories read aloud · Connects information and events in texts to life · Makes predictions based on illustrations/stories · Is familiar with a number of types of text (e.g., storybooks, poems, newspapers, signs, labels) · Read often so that recognizing words becomes easy and automatic · Learn and use new words · Understand what is read

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