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Our Youngest ReadersBuilding Literacy Skills at HomeAugust 2023- Meet The Teacher Night

You Are your Child's first TeacherLiteracy begins at birth and develops over time.

Tell StoriesSing SongsThese are great ways to develop young children’s oral language.

Literacy development happens over timeHorowitz‐Kraus, T., Schmitz, R., Hutton, J. S., & Schumacher, J. (2017). How to create a successful reader? Milestones in reading development from birth to adolescence. Acta Paediatrica, 106(4), 534-544.

Reading Aloud is ImportantYoung children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found.Even kids who are read only one book a day will hear about 290,000 more words by age 5 than those who don’t regularly read books with a parent or caregiver.https://ehe.osu.edu/news/listing/importance-reading-kids-daily-0

Research shows that young children’s language skills prepare them for success in school.

First Teachers at HomeYou are their first experience as they entered into the world. You are who feeds their soul, intellect, humanity, and capacity. Your role is far more vital than ours.Values: Social Emotional Moral

What to Expect From CHISD

The Science of Teaching and ReadingThe Science of Teaching and Reading is the results of 50 years of research that focuses on how the mind naturally develops as scholars transition through the development of reading.

Lorem 3The process that occurs as a once unfamiliar word becomes an automatic sight word.Orthographic MappingStages of the Emergent ReaderLorem 1The development and understanding of sounds in the language world around us. This also involves learning not only the 26 letters, but also how they can be combined and arranged to create the 44 phonemes of the English LanguagePhonic DecodingPhonic DecodingUsing the combination of letters and awareness of Phonemes to be able to put sounds together to create the words that make up our languageLetters AND Sounds

The English Language has 26 Letters; however, the English Language has 44 Phonemes and many more ways to produce those phonemes into sound (Graphenes)Letters Vs. Sound

Tips and Tricks to Developing Lifelong Readers1. Develop a habit of reading 2. When reading to your scholar use your finger to help them follow along with your reading.3. Ask questions anytime, you read to them, or they read to you. (Move beyond simple memory questions.)4. Work as much on sound identification as on letter identification (Remember it's not just what sound, but what sounds can a make a word.

Tips and Tricks to Developing Lifelong Readers5. Practice Rhyming words, words that start, end or contain similar sounds.6. Play with vocabulary. (What do you think this means, or what other word could they have used?)7. Correct and practice incorrect words. (Do not allow them to just hear you say it correctly and move on.)8. Be diligent, but patient!

CHISD Teachers are Your PartnersWe’re here to share literacy resources and supports that you can use at home.