Welcome to Miss Nickerson's Resource Room
Make literacy a part of your family's daily routine and promote your child's reading growth!
Read! Read! Read!
Ways you can help your child:
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Read with your child for a short time (10-15 minutes) but make it daily!
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Before you start discuss the title, look at the cover, skim the pictures and make predictions about what the book will be about.
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With beginning readers point to each word or slide your finger under the words as you read.
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Spend time talking about the book once you have finished reading.
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Praise your child when he/she realizes there is a need to self correct or attempts to self correct with or without prompting.
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Reread favorites! Rereading familiar text is important. This improves reading fluency as well as comprehension.
Here are a few more ideas for helping develop your child's literacy skills!
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write and read messages on a message pad, write a note to dad, write an invitation, share a comic from the newspaper
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read cooking instructions, package labels, look up phone numbers
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rhyme; sing rhyming songs, play rhyming games
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make the shopping list together
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Play "I spy"; "I see a person whose name ends with a _ sound."
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take a walk and look at road/store signs along the way
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read a licence plate; see who can find a plate with a letter "s"