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Lisa Rider
ROCKWELL ELEMENTARY
Zip Code: 28138
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 Blast into Reading! I am Mrs. Rider, one of three reading tutors working with students at Rockwell School. I work with mainly 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 as needed. 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 not working with first graders this year. See Mrs. Mary Roberts or Ms. Edquist. SECOND GRADE: 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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