Do you know any adults that would volunteer 1-5 days a week in our FRED
(Families Reading Every Day) program (listening to small groups of kids
in gr. 1 - 3 read) in the mornings from 8:15 - about 11:15? If you do,
have them call Lori Warchol

FRED means Families Reading Every Day

at our school phone number @ or email her at Lori.Warchol@spps.org

Ideas for Helping Your Child at Home
1. Read, Read, Read to your child and listen to them read

STORY COMPREHENSION: Before reading, talk about what might

Students in Grades K - 3rd grade read in this room everyday!

happen in the story based on the title and the pictures. While reading stop a time or two and predict what might happen next. After reading talk about what happened, ask who, what, why and how questions. Or encourage kids to retell the story, "In the beginning..., then...,

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finally...".

RHYME: If you are reading a book that has a rhyming pattern, stop before the rhyming words and let your child guess what the next word will be. After reading go back and find a word, make more words that rhyme with that word. This is a great family

We love reading on the 'Dinosaur'!

game to do in the car, at the dinner table, etc. - just pick a word.

TELL A STORY: Stories don't always have to be from books. Create your own for your child or with your child. An easy way to get started is to start with a well-know story or a story you've just

Our Ames FRED volunteers give of their time and caring

read to your child and change the character, or the ending, or the place the story takes place. Let your imagination and your child's imagination go wild!

2. Play letter/sound word games

MAGAZINES & CATALOGS: Pick a letter. Look for the capital

Our FRED volunteers are very patient and caring

and lower case letter. You could even cut them out and glue them on paper or make an ABC book.Do the same thing for sounds or sight words (words such as my, like,and, etc..).

MEMORY & GO FISH: Use index cards to write letters or sight words. Make 2 of each

Students learn to read with fluency and expression

card. In memory, you could match uppercase to lowercase.

PLAYDOH: Make letters or spellwords by making playdoh snakes and forming letters or flatten playdoh and use a paper clip to carve letters or words.

3. Numbers

PLAYDOH: Make little

Students read independently in the FRED Room (except with their Volunteer!)

shapes.Count them and roll a snake to make that number.Have someone else do that too. Who has more? Who has less? Use two colors. Make2 groups and add them together. You can also make patterns.

CARDS: Play war. Have highcard win or low card win. It's important to have your child say the numbers. Practice more than and less than. "Mom has less than me." You can also play addition war, flip over two card sand add. "9 is more than 6."

4. Encourage Your Child to Write

LISTS: Let your child help make the grocery list. Encourage them to stretch the words out and write what they hear. Or let them copy from an almost empty cereal box.

NOTES: Write notes to family member. Read it to them. Then encourage them to write back. Have your child write reminders.

DRAWINGS: Kids love to draw pictures. Help them to write about it. Allow them to stretch out the words. If your child is hesitant about this, encourage them to just write the first sound they hear. Kids who are more comfortable writing may want to start a list of words spelled correctly that they might use a lot, for example: like, my, and, play, etc,,

OBSERVATIONS: Observe an insect outside, or a pet, or your little brother, etc.. Draw what you see them doing. Write about it.