Mrs. Randall's Special Blog

Often when parents think of evening reading we think it has to be the child reading out loud. Remember they like to hear you read too! Read to THEM, talk about the story or text, let them know what stories you liked when you were their age!

Beginning February 25 you will be able to locate a new learning strategy located in this very site!

Next week will start with a comprehension strategy. Please let me know if you have specific topics you would like to learn about!

If you have a child in 2nd grade or younger, this could impact you!  Dearborn is putting together a task force made up of school personnel as well as parents to address new legislation regarding teaching proficient readers.  Please consider joining this group of people working together to guide us in this new legislation.

Link to the survey for the meeting on January 10.  

Parent talk is a great program being offered to Nowlin Parents!  There has been one class already, but it isn’t too late to join in the learning.  The idea behind parent talk is to provide parents tools to communicate with their children in a positive way.

The remain sessions will be held at OL Smith starting October 24, 2017

Parent Talk evening classes 6:00-7:30 pm.

Remaining classes will meet:

See the attached to find out how your child can read through a federal grant that Dearborn has received.  Students need to log into their cleaver account.Great Great Books! Continue reading

Inferring= I infer as I read to help myself draw conclusions, make predictions and reflect on my reading!

What it sounds like…

• Maybe…
• I think…
• It could be…
• It’s because…
• Perhaps…
• It means that…
• I’m guessing…

This was from my last post on reading comprehension.  I am moving it here so it will go along with the continued information I plan to post regarding comprehension strategies you can use at home.

Determining importance= I understand the main ideas of the text and the author’s message.

• What it sounds like…
• The text was mostly about…
• The author is trying to tell us that…*
• I learned…
• The important details were…*

Most of our reading at home tends to be narrative.  The two I put a * next to are great follow up statements to talk through with your child.  They may have a hard time with this at first.  You can model it for them!

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Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is an important part of reading.  We want our children to be readers not “word callers”!  Over the next few school days I will be including things you can talk with your child about during reading to help expand their comprehension beyond the “who” and “what” the story is about.

Making Connections= I use what I know to understand what I read.

What it sounds like…

• It reminds me of when I read… because…
• It reminds me of a time I… because…
• It reminds me of something I heard about because…

This comprehension technique helps the reader have a deeper understanding about the characters or ideas they read because they have related it to a life experience, be it something else they read of something they have first hand knowledge about.

I had been posting new news on the Interesting articles page, but have decided to keep them here instead!  It will make it easier on you the reader to see my latest post!