Welcome to our class website! Thank you for visiting our page! Here you will find everything you need to know about our classroom this year, along with pictures and newsletters from the year! If you ever have any questions or concerns you can call me at 377-4100 or e-mail me at [email protected]
How to Nurture a Growing Reader!
1. Read with your children at least once every day.
2. Make sure they have plenty to read.
3. Notice what interests your child.
4. Respect your child's choices.
5. Praise your child's efforts and newly acquired skills.
6. Help you child build a personal library.
7. Check up on your children's progress.
8. Go places and do things with your children.
9. Tell stories.
10. Be a reading role model.
11. Continue reading aloud to older children.
12. Encourage writing along with reading.
2. Make sure they have plenty to read.
3. Notice what interests your child.
4. Respect your child's choices.
5. Praise your child's efforts and newly acquired skills.
6. Help you child build a personal library.
7. Check up on your children's progress.
8. Go places and do things with your children.
9. Tell stories.
10. Be a reading role model.
11. Continue reading aloud to older children.
12. Encourage writing along with reading.
Reading is thinking!
Understanding what you read. Below is a list of reading strategies that are used in your child's classroom each day. When your child brings home a book to read, you can help him/her by practicing the strategies he/she is learning here at school. Reading Strategies for Emergent Readers
1. Look at the picture
2. Get your mouth ready to read.
3. How does the word begin?
4. Read it all the way through.
5. Skip the word.
6. Does that word make sense?
7. Does the word look right?
8. Does that word sound right?
9. Go back and reread the whole sentence.
2004 Marci Goudie http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com
1. Look at the picture
2. Get your mouth ready to read.
3. How does the word begin?
4. Read it all the way through.
5. Skip the word.
6. Does that word make sense?
7. Does the word look right?
8. Does that word sound right?
9. Go back and reread the whole sentence.
2004 Marci Goudie http://www.marcias-lesson-links.com
About Me :)
My name is Lori Griffith. I have been teaching at Parkside since 2000. I grew up in Bethalto and received my education at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. I completed my Masters in 2002 from Rockford College in Instructional Strategies. I live in Bethalto with my daughter, Isabella, and my son, Gabe. When I am not at school, I love watching my kids play sports, taking walks and spend time with my family.