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Bernice Hager
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Mrs. Hager is a Title 1 Certified Reading Specialist.
A Title 1 Certified Reading Specialist is a certified teacher with additional training in the area of reading. The job of the Title 1 Certified Reading Specialist is to work with students on reading skills daily and to also be available as a reading consultant for classroom teachers. The Title 1 Certified Reading Specialist is also available to the Title 1 Tutor to direct and supervise in follow-up instruction for participants.

Title 1, Part A is the largest program in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It authorizes federal aid to State and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to help children achieve high State academic achievement standards. The Title 1 program encourages the parent-teacher-student relationship.

There are several opportunities throughout the year for parents to get helpful tips on working with their children. Notices will be sent home with your children to inform you of upcoming events. I will also post events on this web page, so check back often!

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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." (George Carlin)

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2nd and 4th grades have been invaded by
FROG!
What is FROG?
FROG (Facilitating Reading for Optimum Growth) is an inclusion model where the Title 1 Teacher, the Title 1 Tutor, and a classroom assistant all join a classroom teacher to work with all the students in a room in small groups.
We are doing FROG in Grade Two for thirty minutes four times a week. During this time, all the small groups are working on reading skills such as Making Words, reading leveled readers, or playing FROG reading games.
FROG in Grade four lasts for forty-five minutes and is done five days a week. In addition to Making Words and doing other reading, Grade 4 classes are also using a research based reading kit called SRA. This kit consists of short stories called "Power Builders". They are leveled in difficulity according to a color, and each child is placed in his/her "just-right" color. Children progress through the colors at their own pace. The SRA reinforces phonics skills, comprehension skills, and thinking skills. The children really love working in the SRA kit!
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Coming in January...
Where can you go to have real reading fun?
The Shive Reading Buddies Breakfast Book Club!

The 2008-2009 Shive Reading Buddies Breakfast Book Club is a Title 1 Parent Involvement activity.

Title 1 and a grant from the Altrusa Club of Salisbury are responsible for making this program available to students at Shive Elementary in Grade Two free of charge! Participants must be accompanied by an adult.

At each club meeting, every family attending will receive:
  • a free copy of the Book Club selection book
  • a free activity packet to be completed at home with their "Family Reading Buddy"
  • free breakfast for the student and their "Family Reading Buddy"
  • a Book Review form to complete about the book
The Dates of the 2008-2009 Reading Buddies Breakfast Book Club are:
  • Thursday, January 15, 2009
  • Thursday, February 19, 2009
  • Thursday, March 19, 2009
  • Thursday, April 16, 2009
     Come to as many meetings as you can...we hope you can come to them all!

  Our meetings will take place in the Shive Hive from 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.


A separate registration form for each Book Club meeting will be sent home with every student in Grade Two. We look forward to sharing some fun and information!
   Please feel free to email me with any questions. You may also reach me by phone by calling the school and leaving a voice mail message (704-278-2899 extension 1503)

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Completed Events:

September 18, 2008
Several People Saved the date!
They Wanted to Be informed!
They Planned to attend!
Shive Title 1 Annual Meeting
Now we are a School-Wide Title I school.
What does it mean to be a School-Wide Title 1 school?
They Came and found out!
8:30-9:30 A.M. @ Shive
(Light refreshments were available)

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****Parent Involvement Session****
"Proof Positive:
Self-Esteem and Student Achievement"
How a child's self-esteem impacts his/her classroom achievement
All Shive parents were invited!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M.
Honey Pot Cafe'
Light refreshments were served
Sponsored by Shive Title 1 program



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PARENTAL HELP AT HOME from Family Education Network, Inc.
  • Subscribe to a newspaper and point out interesting information.
  • Play card games with your children. This helps them recall numbers and the four suits (shape). It's also good for strengthening memory and problem-solving.
  • Set up a card-table with a jigsaw puzzle on it and work on it daily, a little at a time. This is something the entire family can do, and for young children it develops location skills and identification of shapes (which helps with reading).
  • Go grocery shopping with your children, and let themn be involved in finding specific items. (Take labels to match.)
  • Allow your children to help you put items away and categorize them (all of the soups, the cereals, the cleaning supplies, and so on).
  • Let your children sort the clean socks from a load of laundry. This is a good categorization skill.
  • Teach your children the proper way to answer the phone and take messages.
  • Get a public library card and bring your child to the library regularly. Libraries often have special events.
  • Talk with your child; spend some quiet time together.
  • Enjoy learning about what your child is doing each day.
  • Let your child know how you use math in daily life...putting gallons of gas in the car, writing out checks for the monthly bills, counting out money, programming the VCR, keeping track of time, checking the temperature, making out an order and adding up the items, etc.
  • Read a good book on parenting skills.
  • Make sure your child has a warm family or friend's connection.
  • Give your child responsibility and follow through to see that the job is done.
Tips for Working with Your Child in Reading, from the Public Schools of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction:
Five Finger Rule of Thumb
Teach your child to use this method in selecting a book. After selecting a book, read the first two pages. Each time you come to a word that you cannot identify, raise one finger. If after reading the first two pages you have raised more than five fingers, this MAY indicate that the book is too difficult. At this point, decide if you want to take the challenge with this book or if you want to select another book.



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