SEALS Welcome to Selinsgrove Elementary’s First Grade Literacy Night!
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SEALS
Welcome to Selinsgrove
Elementary’s First Grade
Literacy Night!
The State Board approved newChapter 4 regulations whichtook effect on March 1, 2014.
These are known as the:
Pennsylvani
a Core Standards
The PA Department of Education speak of these
standards as:
•a set of rigorous expectations•high-quality academic expectations• robust standards • relevant to the real world • reflect the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in life after high school
Samples of some of these First Grade standards are:
• Capitalize dates and names of people, use end punctuation, and spell words drawing on common spelling patterns, phonemic awareness, and spelling conventions.
• Identify the main
idea and retell key
details of text.
Samples of some of these First Grade standards are:
• Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of character in stories.
• Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text types.
• Form, write and support an opinion with reasons related to the opinion.
Phonics and Sight WordActivities
You Can Practice With Your Child
Phonics: Why is it important?
o Phonics allows your child to connect the sounds he hears to the written letter or word.
Activities to Try with Your Child:
1. White Board Spelling
2. Change-a-Letter
frog
batc
Activities to Try with Your Child:
3. Writing Words
4. Silent Rhyming
hotpotnotgot
Activities to Try with Your Child:
5. Bathtub Phonics
6. Word Family Collage
Activities to Try with Your Child:
7. Fancy Fingers
8. Building Words
hat
hat ha
t
b a td o g
Sight Words:Why are they important?o Sight words refer to the words
that are most frequently used and repeated in books. Sight words are also sometimes referred to as high frequency words, star words or vocabulary words.
Activities to Try with Your Child:
1. One Breath Word Boxes
2.I SPY Sight Word Bottles
Activities to Try with Your Child:
3. Sight Word Swat
what how can not
4. Hamburger/Pancake Flip Sight Words
see
whenfrom
Activities to Try with Your Child:
5. Sight Word Parking Lot
6. Mystery Words Coloring
Activities to Try with Your Child:
7. Sight Word Aerobics
to p
Activities to Try with Your Child:8. Using Manipulatives
Activities to Try with Your Child:
9. Sight Word Scavenger Hunt
10. Sight Word Relay
the
to
aef o
b
dg
sn
b u t
Guided Reading
Guided reading occurs when a teacher meets with a small, flexible group of students with a common reading goal.
During guided reading, your child has the opportunity to develop reading strategies in order to read increasingly difficult stories independently.
Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home
o Read aloud every day!
o Answer your child’s questions, even if they interrupt the story.
Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home
o Talk as you read. Ask questions like:
“What do
you think
is going
to happen
next?”
“Why did that character do that?”
“What would you do?”
Reading Aloud to
Your Child at Home
o Read books that are interesting to your child.
o Encourage your child!
Reading Aloud to Your Child at Home
o Have your child retell the story in his or her own words.
o After finishing the book, talk with your child about what you read.
Thank You for Attending
Selinsgrove Elementary’s First Grade
Literacy Night!