Welcome to ‘Read to Succeed’, a reading resource for parents! This toolkit was created with parents in mind to provide resources to support your children’s reading development at home. The Toolkit is centered around the big five areas of literacy: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. The Toolkit provides informational videos, blogs, articles, and activities to help support you as you support your child’s reading.
The ‘Read to Succeed’ Toolkit is divided into 4 parts, called Modules.
Module 1: By clicking this link you will be taken to a presentation about phonemic awareness and phonics.
Module 2: This module contains follow-up activities, articles, videos, and blogs that give you more phonemic awareness and phonics information. These resources are divided by grade level. Scroll down to find the backpack icon that aligns with your child’s grade level and click the square button beside the backpack.
Module 3: By clinking this link you will be taken to a presentation about Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.
Module 4: This module contains follow-up activities, articles, videos, and blogs that give you more Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension information. These resources are divided by grade level. Scroll down to find the backpack icon that aligns with your child’s grade level and click the square button beside the backpack.
Big 5 Literacy Skills Terminology Review
This video provides an overview of the "Big 5" Literacy skills. The Florida Center for Reading Research has many center activities that can be explored related to the Big 5 Literacy Skills.
Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words
Phonics: The ability to match written letters with the sounds of speech and apply this knowledge in reading and spelling.
Fluency: The ability to read text aloud and to one’s self with accuracy, speed and proper expression.
Vocabulary: Understanding word meanings.
Below are some fun ideas to use at home. We call them 'BLIPS'.
Clink on this link to find some easy-to-use literacy ‘Blips’! Blips are short reading tips for parents to use with their children at home. They are broken down into 5 reading areas: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension. They are also broken down by grade level, K-1, 2-3, and 4-5.
The buttons above will lead you to a variety of resources for supporting your kindergarten or 1st grade child as they develop the foundational reading skills, however, one of the most critical things that parents can do to support their child's reading, is to read with them at home. The video below provides some great tips for reading with your young child.
Second and third graders are beginning to read with much more independence. The buttons above will lead you to many resources to support your mid-elementary aged reader. The video below provides a great example of how you might support your child when the encounter tricky words while reading at home.
As children move into their upper elementary years, their purpose for reading shifts from learning to read, to reading to learn. The buttons above will lead you to a variety of resources to support your child as they make this shift. The video below sums up how you will know if your child is understanding text at the upper elementary level.
Many of the resources included in this parent resource kit come from already developed web resources. In the grade level tool kits below we have worked to help you determine which pieces of these resources most closely align to the big 5 reading concepts we are learning about. That said, these are great resources for parents that you may want to explore and sign up for. They are linked below:
Thanks for taking the time to learn more about how to help support your child's reading development!
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