Family Fun Friday Literacy Activities March 10, 2017 Grade 2 Meg Westerlind, Literacy Specialist [email protected]

Common Core State Standards for Reading

The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension. The Common Core State Standards encourage students to go beyond literal comprehension and dig for deeper meaning in text. To understand text at a deeper level, students must interact with the text, not just read it. These interactions require strategies such as predicting, summarizing, questioning, making inferences, learning key vocabulary words, and determining the central message or moral of a story.

Today’s Goals 1. To provide families with an opportunity to see some of the reading strategies that students use. 2. To practice using those strategies in a fun and engaging way. 3. To provide ideas and suggestions on how to support his learning at home.

3 Learning Stations You

and your child will rotate through three different stations today.

Each station provides an opportunity to practice a different reading strategy. You’ll have approximately 10 minutes to complete the activity at each station. After ten minutes, I will notify the group that it is time to rotate to the next station.

We will follow a clockwise rotation pattern, to ensure that everyone has a chance to visit each station. At the end of our 30 minute block, I will notify the group when the 30 min block has ended. At that time you will exit near the photocopier and proceed to the cafeteria.

Sight Words Sight words are words that do not follow a typical spelling pattern and need to be memorized. Sight vocabulary is all of the words a person recognizes by sight. These words can be sight words as well as regularly spelled words.

At this station, you and your partner will pick a set of cards and play the “Memory Game” or “Go Fish”. There are eight different card sets to choose from.

Reader’s Theatre Acting out a story not only improves understanding and fluency. It offers and opportunity to be expressive and connect feelings and action to the dialogue. There are three different plays and 6 copies of each play. Work together in small groups to act out the play. After you act out the play, have a discussion about what lesson you learned.

Read Aloud Station This station provides a an opportunity to visit an free online resource for read alouds. Your child must login to the computer first. Then go to www.storylineonline.net Try out these comprehension strategies:

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Make a prediction before you read

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Ask questions while you read

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Use context clues to figure an unknown word

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Retell the story-be sure to include all the narrative elements

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Identify the problem and solution or central message or moral

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Check your prediction-Was it correct?

Word Games and Websites

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/great-website-to-developstudents.html http://www.readingrockets.org/literacyapps/vocabulary http://www.storylineonline.net/ http://www.starfall.com/

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THANK YOU! Meg Westerlind, Literacy Specialist [email protected]