Reading Coach

Great Reading Choices

  Children's Choices 

Teachers' Choices

Young Adults' Choices

 Graphic Organizers - great for charts, webs or venn diagrams for class projects.

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Reading Resources

Reading aloud with your child should occur for many years, not just when they are small!  It develops language and opens the door for family discussions.   

Reading aloud....

• stimulates your child's imagination, opens the door for adventures and discoveries

• develops your child's interest in reading and in books

• improves your child's listening skills

• builds vocabulary and comprehension through discussion

• helps your child to understand stories and 'book language'

• creates a bond between you and your child developing enjoyable family memories

• provides your child with a positive role model!

• Set Aside a time to read aloud to your child each evening.

• Web Sites to Help Parents Help Their Children - Internet for Classrooms

• Best Site for Grade Level Interactive Activities -Internet for Classrooms  

• How to Improve Comprehension (Ideas and thoughts to use when reading with your student.)

• Read Aloud Handbook- excerpts from the popular book by Jim Trelease

• Books for Reading Aloud -home literacy opportunities from Between the Lions

• Everyday Literacy Tips - Between the Lions  

• Parents & Teachers-Videos, Games, Printable & Stories (Between the Lions)

• Put Reading First/Helping Your Child with Reading at Home (Grades K-3)

• Read to Me: Raising Kids Who Love To Read by Cullinan, Bernice E.; Strickland, Dorothy S. (Scholastic, 2000)  ISBN 043908721X

• The Reading Tub - book resource list

• Decatur Library - Kids Catalog Web - book resource list

• Frequently Asked Questions About Reading Instruction

• Reading A to Z   for a fee you can download all kinds of leveled readers and other stories at many different levels.

Helpful Hints

• Read a favorite story more than once.
  If your child asks for a story to be read again--Read it again!  The repetition assists your child in gaining word recognition, story sequence, vocabulary, story book language, etc.   Most importantly, your child is  enjoying the story!
   
• Focus on enjoyment.
  Choose stories that both of you will enjoy. Think about what your child's favorite things are or what they like to do.
   
• Read from a variety of genres.
  Read traditional tales and rhymes such as Blueberries for Sal and Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McClosky, The Little Red Hen. and Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton.  Reading stories that play with language such as Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham make learning to read even more fun.  Also, don't forget about stories that you can sing such as The Five Little Ducks and Baby Beluga by Raffi.  Books with lots of repetition, predictability, and rhyme are perfect for young readers!

The following educational information will keep you informed about current research-based practices.

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