Sep 23 2009
Decoding, Deciphering, and Reading: Helping Parents Understand Literacy Vocab
This morning on her Parents and Children Reading Together blog, Cathy Miller has a handy list of literacy terms with family-friendly definitions.
Some terms, like sight words, you may recognize, but others are a little more technical. That said, they are words you’re likely to hear during parent-teacher conferences and see when reading the results of standardized tests for reading. As you read Cathy’s list, it becomes clear that some words make the concepts sound harder than they are … try metacognition for example: thinking about how you think. C’mon.
Cathy is doing a radio show with award-winning author Stacey Kannenberg that will be available on the Get Ready to Learn Mom website. She’ll also be continuing her series about ways to help independent readers at Parents and Children Reading Together.
Disclosure notice: Cathy serves as a member of the Reading Tub Board of Directors. She offers counsel and is a sounding board for me in framing literacy programs, building outreach, and educating families about reading with kids.
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After the show, I added a few more definitions to the blog (http://parentsandkidsreadingtogether.blogspot.com). If you have another term from the world of reading education that you don’t quite understand, just post a comment and I’ll be glad to add it to the list.
Resources like The Reading Tub, Stacey’s radio show and work with helping families help their children learn, and The Literacy Ambassador (that’s me!) unite in our voice that families are an essential piece. Reading and writing, listening and communicating, are more important than ever and you can be a part!
Wherever you are with reading with your children, step it up just one notch. If you haven’t quite yet started to read with your child, begin today (start with only 5-10 minutes and a delicious story). If you read sometimes, add one more day, if you read every day or nearly every day, don’t forget to also “read your world” (menus, maps, street signs, billboards, grocery labels, junk mail…you get the idea). Literacy is everywhere (and it’s for everyone!).
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