Starting this school year, Reading Success Plans are a new requirement from the state for students who are in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. The plan helps schools identify students who are reading one or more grade levels below their current grade level, or who are missing critical reading skills. The plan allows the schools to focus on each student's reading deficits and provide the focused reading interventions that they need.

If you have a student who is bringing home books for them to read, often they are decodable books or books that can easily be sounded out so that they can figure out the meaning of the words.

Decodable readers provide important practice for children to develop their phonic skills, necessary for sounding out words while reading. There are many things that you can do at home to help your students get the most out of these books. Reading (and even re-reading) these books helps children master essential early reading skills.

One of the main focuses in reading right now is the Science of Reading. The Science of Reading refers to how the brain learns to read and what teaching methods are shown to be effective. There are two main areas associated with this, Phonological Awareness and Phonics. Phonological awareness includes skills like rhyming, alliteration, identifying syllables, and blending syllables. This skill also includes Phonemic awareness, which is the ability to manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. Phonics is the process of teaching children to associate sounds (phonemes) with letters (graphemes). The sound-letter connection is how children learn to read effectively.

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The great news is that everyday activities, like family meals, bath time, or shopping, are all fun opportunities for literacy development.

• Make sounds and see whether your child can copy them. For example, 'Cows say moo. Can you say moo?'
• Talking and singing with young children helps them develop listening and speaking skills.
• Read books to them that use rhyming.
• Play rhyming word games with your child. Try phrases like 'snug as a bug in a rug', or make up rhymes about the things that you are doing, like 'putting fish in the cat's dish'.

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Reading aloud to children, as well as speaking with them as much as possible, helps create an environment that's rich in language.

Here are some easy ways to integrate phonological awareness skills with young children:

• Rhyming games. “I’m thinking about an animal that rhymes with frog…that’s right! Dog!” Then, have your child choose a word and ask you to think of a rhyme.
• Rhyming groups. “Let’s think of all the words that rhyme with mat.”
• Nursery songs. Tongue twisters, brief poems, and silly songs let children play with language. Very young children may especially enjoy finger-plays like The Itsy-Bitsy Spider that have hand movements to accompany the words.
• Car time. Ask children to spot a house, then ask what rhymes with the word house. Mouse! Dog? Log! Tree? Knee!
• Syllables. Help kids learn to break down words into their parts. Rowboat = row boat. Firetruck = fire truck. Eggplant = egg plant. Once a child understands syllables, they can break down words like “ap-ple” where the syllables don’t necessarily have meanings on their own.

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This is still an age when speaking with them as much as possible helps to create an environment that is rich in language.

Here are some different age-appropriate activities that you can do at home:

• Let them choose the reading material: You may see them gravitate towards nonfiction. science fiction and fantasy, or humor. Whatever it is, be sure to provide ready access.
• Ensure that they have a good reading space: Let them choose the nook, and make sure that it's well-lit and inviting. If you find your child is enjoying their reading space past bedtime, be flexible. Avoid asking your child to stop reading.
• Talk about what they are reading: Ask your child what they like about their books compel them to make connections and think critically. Summarizing and sequencing events will challenge their reading comprehension (which is a significant component of standardized testing).

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Here are some different age-appropriate activities that you can do at home:

• Keep things real: Make explicit connections between the ability to read and future options in life. If your teen is thinking about college or a career path, have open, honest conversations about the ways reading might be necessary for success.
• Let your teen choose: The best way to encourage kids to read is to allow them to read whatever they find engaging, whether it is comic books, cookbooks, or romance novels about vampires or zombies. The books they are drawn to might not be your favorites but don't discourage those preferences. Reading is reading.
• Look for books at your teen's reading level: When teens struggle with reading in high school, it can be challenging to find high-interest books at their reading level. Look for books that specifically target reluctant teen reading, such as those offered through Story Shares and Saddleback Educational Publishing.

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