San Jacinto Elementary School
Faith Rogers
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What is the Reading Intervention Program?
Students generally stay in the program an average of 12-20 weeks. The goal is for the children to perform within the average band of the classroom and to develop a self extending system so that they can continue learning without further interventions.
Homework
Every Reading Intervention Program student will have a book/s to read aloud, and a cut-up sentence to reassemble into a spiral notebook (provided by the reading teacher).
What can I do at home to help my child?
Keep on reading stories to your child and enjoy the time together. Be prepared to read favorite stories over and
over again. Children learn to read better if they are familiar with book language.
Encourage your child to talk about the story.
In the beginning or when it is hard, pointing to the words helps them match what they say with the words they see on the page. This is called one-to-one correspondence.
Let your child see that You think reading is important!
Encourage your child. Encouragement from someone they love matters a great deal. Feeling successful is a great incentive for trying something hard.
Help your child remember to take his practice books back to school each day.
Make sure that he/she goes to school every day - attendance makes a great deal of difference.
Look for familiar words around the house. Help them make connections between letters they know personally and the written language they see around them. For example, letters and words on cereal boxes or cookies, letters on road signs, and letters in names of family and friends.
Play with rhyming words as you read nursery rhymes and sing songs together.
What Do I Do? My Child is Stuck on a Word.
For many years children have been told to "sound it out" when they come to an unknown word. While phonics
is an important part of reading, reading for meaning is the most important goal- especially for beginning readers.
Independent readers who monitor and correct themselves as they read use a variety of strategies. Encourage your child to try the following strategies INSTEAD of saying "sound it out."
Wait 5-10 seconds and see what your child will do alone.
Say, "Try that again" or "Read the first part."
Ask, "What would make sense there?"
Ask, "What do you think it could be?"
Say, "Use the picture to help you figure out what it could be."
Say, "Check by looking at the word again, especially the first letter."
If they still don't know, tell them by asking, "Could it be......?"
REMEMBER to praise all of their attempts.
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