Vocabulary

Vocabulary are the words we can

recognize and communicate
effectively. This is broken into oral
vocabulary (words we understand
from listening to others) and reading
vocabulary (words understood while
reading).
Practice at Home:
Create a word wall with your
children each week with 10 different
vocab words they do not recognize in
their nightly reading! Help them find
the definitions, and make a goal to use
them in your speech during the week!
This will give them a sense of how the
word is used daily.

Online Activity:
Synonym Toast
http://www.scholastic.com/wordgirl/
synonym_toast.htm

Comprehension
Comprehension is the ability to
understand and make meaning from
a text.

Practice at Home:
After reading or watching television
show, have your child recollect and
record the events of the story in
order. Also, before reading a new
story, have your children make
predictions about what the book will
be about and compare their
predictions to what really happened.

Online Activity:
Professor Garfields Reading Ring
http://www.professorgarfield.org/R
eadingRing/Strips/strips.html



THE
IMPORTANCE
OF
READING

How to incorporate the five
components of literacy at
home!
By Jessica Ruber
Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic Awareness is the ability to
identify, hear, and manipulate
phonemes (individual sounds) in
words.
Practice at Home:
Practice using the clap technique
with your children to find out the
number of syllables in different
words while reading together! Also,
try splitting up compound words!





Online Activity:
Professor Garfields Phonemic Farm
http://www.professorgarfield.org/P
honemics/farm3.html



Fluency
Fluency is the ability to read a text
accurately and rapidly.
Practice at Home:
Try reading with your children every
night, where you read a passage or
page first as a model and then have
them read it after you. This gives
them practice hearing how you read
the text and gives them an
opportunity to practice hearing and
them seeing the words and
associating sounds to them also!
Online Activity:
Tongue Twisters
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-
b/twisters/load.htm?f

Phonics
Phonics is this systematic
relationship between sounds and
letters.

Practice at Home:
Have your children do a
letter/sound scavenger hunt
where they go through the house
looking for objects that all begin
with the same letter or sound!
Such as giving them the letter T
and having them find and record
objects like television or table.
Online Activity:
Between the Lions- Fuzzy Lion
Ears
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/
ears.html