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TITLE I

Parent Meeting

March 15th, 2017

Thank You for Coming!

Our Credentials

• Mrs. Jackson

■ Title I Teacher - Grades K-5 ■ 1st Year at Memorial in Title 1 ■ 19th year teaching ■ Bachelor’s Degree from Baldwin-Wallace ■ Masters from University of Akron ■ National Board Certification in English and Language Arts

Miss Sword

■ Title I Teacher - Grades K-5 ■ 3rd Year at Memorial in Title 1 ■ Bachelor’s Degree from John Carroll University ■ Reading Endorsement K-12 ■ Building Leadership Team at Memorial

Agenda

■Program Overview ■Importance of reading at home ■Reading Tips/Activities ■What is Fluency? Fluency Tips/Activities ■Handwriting tips ■Spelling tips/activities ■Parent Questions/Concerns ■Resources for Parents

Title 1 Overview

• Enrollment is limited to 50-60 students per

teacher

• Groups can be no larger than 8 (no larger

than 6 for kindergarten)

• Title 1 teachers provide instruction to students

in our own classrooms (pull-out intervention)

• Interventions for students just below the

grade level benchmarks

• Students qualify based on MAPs test data,

sight words, fluency, reading level, and teacher recommendation

What Happens When Kids Skip Reading...

• Echo Read, take turns reading pages/lines, read aloud
• Pre-read: highlight all the words they know first
• Cover & Tell
• K & 1:

○ Illustrate ○ Characters & Setting ○ Favorite Part

• 2 & 3:

○ “Somebody Wanted But So Then”

• Raz Kids
• Writing

○ Write a new story using characters from a book ○ Make up own story (don’t focus on spelling)

• App: Endless Reader and Epic! (parent email)

Reading Tips/Activties

Fluency is the ability to read smoothly and automatically, with expression and attention to punctuation.. Pace = the speed in which you read (not too fast and not too slow) Phrasing = chunking the words together into meaning phrases (not reading words one.word.at.a.time. Intonation (Expression) = reading with feeling in your voice

• Changing your voice to match the character
• Reading like you would speak (and not like a

robot)

• Moving your voice up and down

Punctuation = reading with attention to punctuation

What is Fluency?

• Echo Reading
• Record and Play Back
• Poetry & Songs
• Repeated Readings
• Readers’ Theater
• App: Sock Puppets
• Roll and Read
• Sentence Trees
• Highlight Known Words

Fluency Activites:

• Remind students to always start at the TOP
• Large total arm movements of writing letters in the

air with eyes open and then with eyes closed

• Drawing letters in sand, flour, sugar, shaving cream,

hair gel, paint, etc. on a flat surface

• Printing letters over tactile surfaces such as

sandpaper, window screening, bumpy boards

• Printing on a vertical surface to reinforce wrist

extension and the concept of up and down

• Have your child verbalize the direction of movement

for letter production

• Apps: Sand Draw & Kids Doodle

Handwriting Tips:

• Lacing activities
• Clothespin activities
• Games and activities that require a pinch
• Tweezer Games
• Manipulating Nuts and Bolts
• Twisting on/off caps such as a tube of toothpaste
• Using pencil grips
• Using an eyedropper
• Using ½” -¾” chalk pieces or broken crayons to color

and make lines

• Have student hold a penny, paper clip or other small
• bject against the palm with the ring finger and

pinky, leaving the other three fingers available for proper placement on the pencil

Activities that Help w/Tripod Grasp

• Each day of the week leading up to

the test, pick 2-3 words to work on

• Write using different tools

(markers, dry erase, chalk, etc.) and write each word 5 times each

• Switch roles - have them read you

the word and you spell it

• Don’t rely on sounding out - focus
• n pattern
• Vocab extension - have students

draw a picture for each word (make their own study cards/book)

• Apps: Sand Draw, Kids Doodle,

Spelling Bee

Spelling Tips/Activties:

• Apps: Sand Draw, Kids Doodle, Spelling Bee

Spelling Tips/Activities:

Thank you again for coming! Thank you for your support!

Questions or Comments?