Little Tiger Readers

This website was created to help parents guide and encourage their young readers at home. Within this website you will find links to fun activities to help with different approaching reading skills, fluency, and comprehension. There is also parent information and resources to reference for new ideas and encouragement.

Reading Help

Do you need a different strategy to help with reading at home? Do you have a specific question about your child's reading skills? Please leave us a detailed explanation about what your child is having difficulty with at home and we will look up ideas, share tricks/tips that could help ease the reading difficulty at home!

(Please do NOT ask about reading homework the homeroom teacher gave, that is a question you can ask them. This is for different reading strategies to help with at home.)

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Reading Help Form

Reading resources for parents:

Versailles Reading Curriculum : K-2

Heggerty

The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides students with consistent and repeated instruction that develops a student's decoding (reading) and encoding (writing) skills. Each daily phonemic awareness lessons are 12 minutes or less which are fast, effective, and fun.

Example of a Heggerty Lesson on You Tube

95% Phonics Core Program K-3

95% Phonics Core Program is an explicit, systematic, and sequential phonics instruction that is taught whole-class in just 20 minutes a day comprehensive reading and language arts curriculum. It provides instruction in core phonics components which includes word-sorting, sound-spelling mapping with and without manipulatives, word chains, and transfer to text.

Example of a 95% Phonics Core Lesson

Interesting Fact: Parents who read one pcture book with their child EVERY DAY will expose their child to approximately 78,000 different words each year. From birth to kindergarten those children will have been exposed to 1.4 million more words than children who are not exposed to books. It is a fact that reading to your child will directly impact their future language skills and academic success.

Helpful Tips for Home

Read to them daily-even before they can talk.
Encourage questions-don't spoon feed answers.
Cut screen time, increase real-world play.
Teach them how to think, not what to think.
Let them solve problems on their own.
Expose them to music and instruments.
Make learning fun with games and stories.
Speak using rich, varied vocabulary.
Praise effort, not just intelligence.
Feed their curiousity- not their schedule.