Title I

Greetings from Title 1

The kindergarten students have learned the first 55 phonograms. They are remembering more of the sounds and are getting better at writing the letters that represent the sound they have heard. They have been practicing reading orally the sight, number, and color words. The first grade students have been reviewing the phonogram sounds, practicing the spelling words and reading words orally from word cards and the reading book. Second and third grade students continue to practice reading orally and spelling their reading mastery list words. Fourth grade students have been reviewing main idea and details, drawing conclusions, sequence and fact and opinion. The fifth and sixth grade students have been reading the words on their mastery lists and reading nonfiction and reviewing drawing conclusions and making inferences.

As your child reads orally to you, you may have noticed that instead of reading smoothly the reading is slow because your child is forming the words slowly. In other words the oral reading is not fluent. The Parent Institute offers the following tips to help your reader improve the fluency as she or he reads. 1) Pick books carefully for your child. Make sure they are not too difficult. 2) Be patient. Practice builds the reader's confidence. 3) Take turns. First you read a sentence and then your reader reads the next sentence. 4) Have fun. Your reader might be allowed to stay up late to read or read into a tape recorder. 5) Read repeatedly. Reading the same poem or story over and over will help build the reader's confiedence and help the reader improve over time.