Welcome to Family Literacy Night!
Common Core Curriculum • Define knowledge and skills students should have within their K-12 education careers • Are aligned with college and work expectations • Are clear, understandable and consistent
Common Core Curriculum • Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills • Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards • Are evidence-based
Common Core Curriculum English Language Arts: 1.Foundational Skills (Pre-K-1) 2.Literary Text 3.Informational Text 4.Speaking and Listening 5.Writing
Our Focus Tonight: Kindergarten & Second Grade • First Grade Informational • Foundational & Literary Skills Texts
Foundational Skills Kindergarten: • Print Concepts • Rhyming words • Letter Recognition • Letter-sound correspondence • Manipulating sounds to create new words
Foundational Skills First Grade: • Print Concepts • Short Vowels • Long Vowels • Syllables • Manipulating sounds to make new words
What are Literary Texts? • Stories • Poems • Songs
Literary Texts Skills Second Grade Reading Habits: • Use before, during, and after strategies • Monitor comprehension
Literary Texts Skills Second Grade: • Retelling • Summarizing • Answer questions using text support • Identify characters, setting, problem, solution, & plot • Determine essential message, moral, or lesson of the text • Understanding character traits
What Are Informational Texts? • Trade books • Magazines • Multi-media resources • Functional texts (ex. recipes, labels, etc)
Informational Texts Skills Second Grade: • Determine meaning of words & phrases of text • Know and use various text features to locate information • Captions • Bold print • Subheadings • Glossaries • Indexes • Electronic menus & icons
Informational Texts Skills Second Grade: • Identify main purpose • Compare & contrast information from various texts on the same topic
Stations Please refer to the schedule on the front of your packet for your rotation schedule.
Stations Kindergarten websites: Mrs. Barker’s music room (stage) 1 st grade websites: Computer Lab 2 nd grade websites: Media Center
Door Prize Drawings YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN!!! • Emergency Homework Kits • Hardback Books
THANK YOU!!! • Kohl’s for book donations • Dairy Queen for Free Cone Coupons • BCES PTA • Mrs. Sherman for gathering Emergency Homework Kits • BCES custodians for setting up the tables and room. • Staff at BCES • Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Snowden for their support in planning • Families attending and continuing to support their child’s education
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