Reading Tool Kit
Mrs. Case
Mrs. Langevin
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Welcome Parents!
Learning to read and a love of reading both begin in a child's early years. Here at Brooklyn Elementary School, we work hard to foster these habits and mindsets in all students. We know that you are our partners in this process. It is our hope to share literacy tools, activities and websites on this page that you can try, and enjoy with your children at home!
General Reading Expectations per Grade Level
Grade K
identify letter names
identify letter sounds
rhyming
short vowel words: try using letter magnets and sound boxes to build words
(for instance, when building the word: cat, each letter goes into a sound box or Elkonin Square)
read SNAP sight words: try to introduce words with common patterns, for example: go, no, so..
long vowel words
Grade 1
read 1 syllable words
short/long vowel words
retell story elements
read SNAP sight words
read 2 syllable words
Grade 2
read 2 and 3 syllable words, try using sound boxes, breaking each word part, like: pic/nic
retell beginning/middle/end
compare/contrast, answer 5 W's
read with sufficient fluency
Grade 3
read multisyllabic words
main idea, character traits
author's message/summary
read more complex text
Grade 4
make comparisons across text, try visualization: What do you see?
deeper comprehension- think critically: Describe the main character.
study of historical people, non-fiction
analyze text, infer, presentations using technology
Games
Starfall.com (free/password not required)
Starfall's mission is to help students learn to read with phonics, as well as to learn mathematics, in a FUN way. There are a variety of games on this website where students will not even realize they are learning while they are having fun! The home page starts out with ABC's, Learn to Read is full of word family, word building, and books that align to the phonetic pattern played in each game, while Reading is Fun incorporates music, art, and science! A favorite is the Robot Machine Vowel Game that provides students with phonemic awareness skills, such as changing one letter to create a new word!
ABCya! has SO MANY educational games for students ranging from pre-k to grade 5.
PBS Kids: PBS Kids has put together their best resources around reading, including tips, activities, games, and booklists. There are also lots of great read alouds for your family to listen to, too. This website has it all! Students will love this website for learning and for fun.
Teach Your Monster to Read : Teach Your Monster to Read covers letters, sounds, and reading sentences. It is free on your computer, but is also offered on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Kindle tablets.
National Geographic Kids: This is a fact filled website for kids containing games, videos, and lots of photos and facts on non-fiction topics. Non-fiction or Informative text has become more and more part of our curriculum, as it ties into science!
Virtual Libraries
Storyline Online: This website streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children's books alongside creatively published illustrations. Sure to be a family favorite!
Get Epic: Epic is a library with thousands of Read-to-Me Books (we encourage enlarging font so that students are able to follow along with text as it is read to them), Audiobooks (recommended for comprehension), educational videos, and much more. Epic is free for educators. Parents may purchase a subscription, but check with your child's teacher first to make sure they do not already have a class code or username already in place that you can use at home.
Home Activities
Reading Rockets is an incredible site for everyone!
Reading Rockets is a national public media literacy initiative offering information and resources on how young children learn to read, why some struggle, and how caring adults can help. This link will bring you to the Family Reading Activities section. Don't hesitate to visit other portions of this website.
Flyleaf Publishing provides decodable books without a log in or cost, so students can start with easy cvc books then progress through to vowel digraphs and multisyllabic rich text!
Primary Grades: help your child learn his/her letter names, sounds in the fall and short vowel words in winter and spring. Discuss main character, setting, events to begin comprehension skills.
Please try these literacy activities and websites with your children at home! Try asking questions as you read from TCRWP that: make predictions, connections, inferences, retell, and critique.
Primary Grades: help your child learn his/her letter names, sounds in the fall and short vowel words in winter and spring. Discuss main character, setting, events to begin comprehension skills.
Please try these literacy activities and websites with your children at home! Try asking questions as you read from TCRWP that: make predictions, connections, inferences, retell, and critique.
Elementary Grades: help your child practice word attack, fluency, and comprehension skills! (acquire passwords through school for these)
Lexia.com
Independent Reading Level- (please note: when your child is reading books to you at home, it is important to know your child's DRA independent level. This does not mean to limit your child's experience to only this level, but if they are reading to you, it will help build their confidence. Your child's teacher will have this information. To make sure you know the level of books to maximize success, go to Scholastic's Book Wizard.com. When reading to your child, a higher reading level is generally recommended to build vocabulary.
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