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Lisa Rider
ROCKWELL ELEMENTARY
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Mrs. Rider's Site:
Blast into Reading!


I am Mrs. Rider, one of three reading tutors 
working with students at Rockwell School. 
I work with first and second grade students
who may need more help to learn to read,
write effectively, and/or stay on grade level.
I go into second grade classrooms to help with
small groups, as well as working with students
individually from first or second grade classes.
 
I focus primarily on students who are not already receiving
any extra help in the form of Title 1, resource, or speech.
If you feel that your child
needs individual attention,
please talk to his or her teacher
about receiving tutoring help.

Scroll down below for a general overview of our focus, 
as well as phonics rules that are important for all 
early readers to understand in order to become 
proficient and fluent readers.

To see some of the poems or material
we are studying in class, as well as
the current phonics focus
check the page for your student's grade. 

To see a list of recommended books
for first or second grade readers,
check the page for your student's grade.
(To do this return to my schoolnotes menu 
and click on the First or Second Grade page.)




FIRST GRADE:
 I am now receiving  teacher recommendations 
for individual tutoring groups.

SECOND GRADE:
Second Grade students are reviewing phonics skills
learned in first grade last year, 
learning about the parts of speech, and 
integrating and evaluating reading selections.


 

PHONICS:

Beginning Skills: Students learn to read words
that use one short vowel in the middle of the word.
If you are listening to your child read,
you can let them figure out words on their own
that have only three or four letters with one vowel
in the middle of the word. The rule goes like this:

When one vowel is by itself
in the middle of a word,
it usually uses the short sound.
The spelling pattern is CVC
(consonant, short vowel, consonant)

You may need to remind them about the
short vowel sounds
they learned in the zoophonics program last year.
a = Allie alligator
e = Ellie elephant
i = Inny inchworm
o = Ollie octopus
u = Umber umbrella bird

There is a cute song at
http://pbskids.org/lions/songs/sometimes_y_qt.html
and also other games and activities
for reading at the
PBSKids address.
 
Next comes
long vowel sounds.

There are two spelling patterns for long vowels:

1
The silent e rule goes like this:
An "e" at the end of the word
can jump over one consonant
and make the vowel in front of it
say it's long sound.

The pattern is: VCe
(vowel/consonant/silent e)

2
The double vowel rule goes like this:
When two vowels go walking,
the first one does the talking,
and says its name (the long sound).
The second one is silent.

The pattern is: CVVC
(consonant/vowel/vowel/consonant)
Examples of double vowels that we will be studying this year:
ay, ai, ee, ea,, oa

There is a cute song about double vowels at
http://pbskids.org/lions/videos/twovowels


There are some vowel combinations
that do not follow the rules:

Digraphs are letter pairs that
make a different sound together.
ou" like in the word out
 "oo" like in the word  food
oi" like in the word  oil
 "oy" like in the word boy


Students also need to learn R-controlled words.
When any vowel is followed by an "r"
it makes a special sound with it.
This is also called the "Bossy R" sound.
"ar" makes a sound like in the word "are"
"or" makes a sound like in the word "for"

"er", "ir", and "ur" all make the same sound.
"er" makes a sound like in the word "her"
"ir" makes a sound like in the word "bird"
"ur" makes a sound like in the word "fur"



Please encourage your child to read
every night for 20 minutes:
Reading, like everything else, gets better with practice!

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