Welcome to Reading Interventions

Mrs. Renee Best

K-3 Reading Interventionist

Marley Park Elementary School

15042 W. Sweetwater Ave.

Phone Number (623) 523-8200

Email- renee.best@dysart.org

Hours: 8:00-4:00

Hello Families,

Welcome back! I hope many of you had a great summer spending time doing some wonderful activities together. Over the summer, I spent time with my family hiking, biking and traveling up to Prescott to enjoy Watson Lake.

This is my sixteenth year as a Reading Interventionist and third year in this position at Marley Park. My teaching experience has also been a classroom teacher in Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade and Special Education.

As we begin the school year, I will email a schedule to you regarding days, times and lessons for reading intervention groups. This will not conflict with your child's homeroom lessons or their special times.

I am excited to work with you and your child this school year and look forward to the progress they will achieve.

Reading Intervention groups are taught to students on campus in 1st-3rd grade Tuesday-Friday, approximately twenty to thirty minutes with an average of five students. Kindergarten groups are taught T-F for fifteen minutes. With early release on Monday, only a few groups are seen on this day.

A few reading tips to do at home with your child are working on sight words such as and, the, them, because, were, where, etc. These should be read automatically without sounding them out. If not, please spend 5-10 minutes each night reviewing them with your child. A great resource for additional words would be their book they read each night.

Other important reading components are fluency (reading smoothly just as we speak) and comprehension (remembering what was read). Each night, students should read 15 min. for students in first grade and 30 minutes for students in second and third grade. If your child has difficulty reading books on their own, you can model read a few sentences then have your child read out loud. Assist in decoding those larger multisyllabic words with your child as well as discussing vocabulary they may not be familiar with. To build comprehension skills, ask questions prior, during and after the story. For those students reading chapter books, ask questions after a few pages have been read.

Please see the DIBEL'S page for assessment information.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Best