2. Can You Find Me?
Please pick up scavenger hunt
worksheet on the desk when you
enter.
We will find the following to get
familiar with the room:
• Miss. Covington’s Desk
• Personal cubbies
• Literacy Lounge
• Word Wall
• Your Seat
• Daily Agenda
• Short Term & Long Term Goals
3. Reading is to the mind
what exercise is to the
body.
- Sir Richard Steele
4. 5 Reasons Why Reading is so
Important
1.Improves Memory
2.Reading will improve your vocabulary
3.Broadens your perspective of other cultures
4.Build Self-Esteem
5.Improves Creativity
5. Parents YOU Can Help
Here are a couple literacy software
programs you can use at home with your children.
The Program:
This program is a beginning reading program that closely resembles real life instruction with a
teacher who is leading the lessons. It utilizes the latest technology, each lesson features an
onscreen animated instructor that effectively and gently guides your children through. The world's
most advanced phonics reading program is designed and created by Dr. J. Ron Nelson, a nationally
recognized professor with a prolific career span of over two decades.
www.clicknkids.com
6. The Program: Mighty Mini Software
This program is designed to help your child overcome common
reading stumbling blocks with Phonics Made Easy. Children will have
fun mastering pre-reading skills with this easy-to-use program. The
skills included: beginning letter sounds; ending letter sounds; long
and short vowel sounds; rhyming families; blends and digraphs
7. Strategies and suggestions to use at home in
all areas of reading development including:
phonemic awareness
phonics
decoding
fluency
comprehension
reading aloud
8. Here are a few literacy websites you
can use at home!
Sites For Parents
www.sitesforparents.com
• This site is full of resources for parents. There are worksheets, activities, and lesson
plans. They also offer a list of effective books for all subjects.
Literacy Matters
www.Literacymatters.com
• Literacy Matters is a non government funded resource site, all our lesson plan units
have been developed by teachers directly in line with the Framework for Literacy.
This site is dedicated to provide a wide range of ready made lesson plans and
resources for primary literacy.
We Read
www.weread.org
• This web site is designed to help parents encourage children to read. This site
encourages you to use the internet and technology to engage your children and
young adults in the joys of reading and writing. They provide countless reading tools!
