Happy New Year! A great way to start off the new year is by reading nightly. It really benefits a child's language skills and vocabulary to listen to reading. Plus is fosters the love of reading. Here is a website that reads to your child for those busy days or on a long car ride. Here is the link: Storynory Enjoy!!

Happy Holidays!

We hope all of our Crestwood families have a great break. This blogger offers lots of ideas of activities to do, and she has free books to print on her site on the bottom. Check out The Measured Mom. Have a great New Year!

Some Great Websites

Here are some great websites for reading skills: Florida Center for Reading Research has Reading Activities and games for elementary students that you can print out. Examples are Memory, Go fish, etc. https://fcrr.org/student-center-activities PBS Kids has Fun games like Digital reading, Sorting and other educational games. https://pbskids.org/games/reading Starfall has Great website with Digital Reading Games. https://www.starfall.com Reading is Fundamental website is great. It has premade and build your own puzzles like word searches and memory games. https://www.rif.org/literacy-central/puzzle-creator

 

Here is a menu with some ideas for summer:

Summer Literacy Learning Menu for Grades 3-5

Syllable Practice	Phonemic Awareness	Nonsense Words
Making Multi-Syllable Words Floyd Danger Curse of the Syllables Build a Compound Word How to figure out syllables? Open and Closed Syllables Magic/Silent e Syllables Bossy r-syllable Diphthong Syllable Consonant-le syllables	SOUND PUZZLES Letter Tiles (use the letter tiles to map/spell words) Rhyming Riddles What's the Rhyme Scheme	How Fast Are You? Real or Nonsense? Spin the spinner and decide if the word is real or nonsense. More Nonsense Bigger Better Real vs Nonsense
Comprehension	Vocabulary	Fluency
Questions for Comprehension for 3rd-5th grade Solve the Mystery Use the Text Main Idea Fictional Text Read Passages about Animals	Multiple Meaning Word Activity Choose the Correct Meaning Guess the Word Choose the Best Meaning Vowel Team Match-Up Find the Base Word Which Homophone?	Word Phrases for Fluency Practice (Practice reading each phrase until it’s smooth. Time yourself to see how you improve) Time to Read

Dyslexia Awareness Month

 October is National Dyslexia Awareness Month. We wanted to offer some resources:

• International Dyslexia Association

• ILA Dyslexia in the Classroom webinar series (free)

• DESE Professional Development Resources on Dyslexia

Reading Eggs is available to all students that see a reading specialist. Let us know if you need their log in information. Here is the Reading Eggs link and some additional sites that can be beneficial:

Reading Eggs

STARFALL

PBS Learning Media

 All Crestwood parents. We would love to hear from you! Below is a link to a survey asking

for how we can better serve you this school year. Thanks! It shouldn't take more than a couple minutes.

Survey

Literacy Night Flyer

 

     We are excited to be back at school! It's so wonderful to start a NORMAL school year. We love seeing all of your children's happy faces! We have been giving some assessments to students for the last few weeks. They are all working so hard.

     We are pleased to let everyone know that we have a new addition to the Crestwood Reading Team! Mrs. Allenbaugh is joining us from Kennerly Elementary where she was a first grade teacher. We are so excited to have her join our team. We should be letting you know by September 20th if your child will be in a reading intervention group this trimester. 

Fall Reading Updates

 The reading specialist finished fall testing mid-September and have been seeing students for the past two weeks. It is so great to work with students in-person. Please reach out if you would like to schedule a meeting with us. Here are some tips for discussions with your kids at home:

● Talk about it! Talk with your child about their day but guide the discussion by asking questions like: 

○ Did you make a mistake today? What did you learn? 

○ What did you do today that was difficult? 

● Praise the Process! Instead of saying “You are so smart!” praise effort, goal setting, persisting through a challenge, or being creative. 

○ Wow! You must have worked really hard on this! 

● The Brain Can Grow! Remind your child that their intelligence is not fixed. Remind them that when things are difficult, their brain grow, if they persist through the challenge. 

○ Wow! You persisted, and made your brain grow a new connection! 

Summer Reading Tips!

 Here is the link to the presentation from our  parent meeting.  Please feel free to watch at your leisure!

Here is the link to the entire video presentation.

Also, we would love for you to fill out this survey!

 The Crestwood Reading Team is thrilled to be working with students again, both virtually and in person. We are here for you, if you have any questions. Here is a great website to try out whenever there is some down time. We love how there are various activities listed by grade level. 

Summer Activities

Here are some great resources for summer. We hope you have a great summer break!

See link: HERE