Reading Rescue 1-2-3

"Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. Rescuing Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know Portrait of a Rescuing Parent 1. Steps into Reading: The Definition of Reading Five Components Learning to Read and Reading to Learn 2. High Hurdles: Children Who Aren't Reading It's All in Their Heads Hearing, Speech Impediments Vision Deficiencies More Than One Learning Style Inability to Self-Prime Reading Avoidance Looking at Labels Activities That Compete with Reading 3. Ready to Read: The Game Plan Having a Game Plan Create Feelings of Success Create a Good Environment for Practice Reading Time Establish a Routine Materials Needed for Practice Reading Time 4. Reading Selections: To, With, and By The Right Selection for Your Child Choosing Reading Selections Fluency To, With, and By: A Method to Improve Fluency Alternating Reading 5. Let's Fix It! Dealing with Reading Mistakes Good and Bad Reading Mistakes Fixing Reading Mistakes 6. What Level? Testing Your Child Directions for Test Answer Sheet Student Test Sheet Determine Your Child's Rescue Reading Level II. Rescuing a Level 1 Reader Portrait of a Level 1 Reader 7. Half Hour to Hop on Pop: Daily Schedule for Beginners Daily Schedule for Working on Reading Skills Today's Worksheet: Level 1 Reader 8. Apples to Zebras: Teach the Alphabet Stage A: Teach Her Name and Create Your Own Alphabet Book Sing the Alphabet Song Look at Alphabet Books Trace Alphabet Letters Stage B.: Teach Specific Letters Using the Alphabet Chart Alphabet Games to Play Apply Letter Sounds to Connected Print 9. Rhyme Time: Helping Ears to Hear and the Brain to Remember Rhyme Connections Rhyme with Me Rhyming Practice Improve Auditory Memory by Playing Memory Games 10. Better Letters: Beginning Reading Put Letters Together to Make Simple Words How to Make Simple Words Make the Word Game Attach Tails to Heads Game 11. It's Easy! Reading Homemade and Predictable Books Create Your Own Pulitzer Winners It's a Real Cut-Up! Read Predictable Books III. Rescuing a Level 2 Reader Portrait of a Level 2 Reader 12. Half Hour to Power: Daily Reading Schedule Today's Worksheet: Level 2 Reader 13. In One Ear and in the Other: Connecting Ears to the Brain Same or Different Game Take the Word Apart Game Put the Word Together Game Make New Words Game Getting Back into Connected Print 14. Reading Better: Using Phonic Skills Teach Blends Phonic Skill Sheets 15. Writing Right: Stories in a Notebook Writing Suggestions 16. Oh, See Can You Say? Teach Sight Words Choosing Sight Words How to Teach Sight Words Put Sight Words into Connected Print The One Hundred Most Frequent Words List Teaching Sight Words as Needed Miscalled Words IV. Rescuing a Level 3 Reader Portrait of a Level 3 Reader 17. Reading Well: The Final Frontier Today's Worksheet: Level 3 Reader 18. Use The Clues: Teach Three Phonic Clues Phonic Clue #1: Finger Blocking—Leaving the First Two Letters Exposed Phonic Clue #2: Short Vowel-Long Vowel Sound Phonic Clue #3: Look for a Smaller Word Inside Applying the Three Phonic Clues Scaffolding 19. Sounding Smooth: Fluency Strategies To, With, and By Fluency Technique Have a ""Fluency Talk"" Tape Record Your Child's Reading Time the Readings Record Favorite Books Keep Your Place Marker 20. Think About It: Comprehension Strategies Increasing Vocabulary and Concepts Introduce the Reading Selection Preteach a Sight Word and Concept Fixing a Reading Mistake ""Did That Make Sense?"" Create Pictures in Her Head Summarize the Story Ask Questions Read a Story, Read a Recipe 21. Successfu1 Strategies for School: To Make Everyone Happy Do You Hear What I Hear? Following Auditory Directions in the Classroom Find the Sound Game Master That Spelling List I Spy the Right Word Game To Read or Not to Read—Silently Don't Take the Summer off Appendix A: Connecting Sounds to Letters—Phonic Sheets and Cartoon Stories Appendix B: Reading Rescue Book List Endnotes Bibliography Index"