National Young Readers Week 11/9 – 11/13
Hundreds of schools across the country celebrate reading by participating in National Young Readers Week each year. This is an annual event that was co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut® and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
Set aside as a special day to recognize the joys and benefits of reading, schools recruited local “celebrities†to read aloud a favorite children’s book to their classrooms. Local reading role model “celebrities†included local officials, sports figures, public safety officers, parents, and other guests from the public and private sector.
Reading is first. What does this mean? It means every subject in school flows from reading and children who read the most, read the best. And, the only way to get better at reading is to do it. Commit right now – today – to set aside time to read at home every day for at least 20 minutes. Trust us…those 20 minutes are so worth it.
| alphabet knowledge: recognizing letters of the alphabet. |
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| assessment: a way to evaluate reading development and proficiency. |
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| buddy reading: pairing a child from an upper grade with a younger child. |
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| choral chanting: the entire class, or a small group of children, reads a passage together. |
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| comprehension: the ability to understand and gain meaning from what has been read. |
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| concepts about print: knowledge about books: how to hold them, move from left to right, front to back. |
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| decoding: the combination of phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and sound knowledge that enables us to break down new and unfamiliar words. |
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| echo chanting: the teacher reads one line of text and the child then reads the same line. |
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| emergent reading: the time between birth and when children begin to read and write in conventional ways. |
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| encoding: the combination of phonemic awareness, letter, and sound knowledge that enables us to spell words by translating sounds into letters. |
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| fluency: the ability to read text accurately and quickly. |
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| language acquisition: the stages of listening and speaking development. |
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| language proficiency: the level at which a person can speak and understand a language. |
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letter identification: recognizing the letters of the alphabet.
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| letter-sound relationship: recognizing the letters of the alphabet and their accompanying sounds. |
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| mental imagery: the skill of visualizing what you see after you have been read to. |
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| partner reading: involves peers reading together. |
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| phonemic awareness: the ability to hear and identify sounds in spoken words |
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| phonics: the relationship between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. |
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| vocabulary: the words students must know to communicate effectively. |
