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The Family Reading Experience, Powered by Kindle
Sherri Wilson, Senior Manager Family & Community Engagement
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National PTA® and Kindle are working together to help families get more involved in their children’s reading and enhance their emerging interest in books.
50 Classrooms of Kindles!
Donated eReaders
Sets of 20 distributed
Applications open through June 1, 2015 at www.fre2015.questionpro.com/
50 Classrooms of Kindles
Eligible PTAs must be affiliated with a Title I elementary school with a minimum 40% free and reduced priced lunch.
All recipients must be in good-standing with their State PTA.
National PTA will confirm your status with your State PTA as part of the review process.
50 Classrooms of Kindles Application Process
Applicants must agree to the following requirements to receive the donation award:
• Implement at least one PTA Family Reading Experiences, Powered by Kindle by December 1, 2015. Learn more about PTA Family Reading Experience, Powered by Kindle at pta.org/familyreading
• Attach a completed W-9 form to this application. W-9 forms are available at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
• Complete a brief post-event grant report online form by December 1, 2015 that includes the following:
– Narrative about your event
– Quantitative results, such as number events, number of attendees, number of parent and teacher volunteers, media hits, etc.
– How your PTA/school will use the Kindles in an ongoing way
– Feedback on the program
5 specific areas (sometimes called “domains”):
• Phonological awareness is the ability to identify individual sounds in
spoken words.
• Phonics adds knowledge of the alphabet to phonological awareness: it
refers specifically to the relationships between sounds and letters.
• Fluency means the ability to recognize words automatically and group
words to gain meaning.
• Comprehension is the ability to engage with, understand and respond
to a text.
• Vocabulary is knowing what specific words mean, as well as word-
learning strategies such as knowing the meanings of word parts (e.g.,
base words, suffixes) and using context clues and dictionaries to
understand new words.
How is Literacy Taught In Schools?
• Talk with children about sounds in words.
• Reinforce letter-sound connections as you run errands or
do chores together.
• Have your child read to you often.
• Invite children to retell or act out their favorite stories.
• Read to your child from books above his or her current
reading level.
Find more @ Home activities at
www.pta.org/familyreading
How can families support literacy at home?
• e-readers provide new ways to engage children’s
interest
• Can customize display
• Built-in dictionaries
• Can store more books, less weight
• Accessibility to more books
How does technology affect literacy?
The Experience has 6 stations:
Phonemic Awareness Comprehension
Fluency Vocabulary
Phonics Technology
There are two different kits:
Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
There are four different themes:
On Safari
Under the Sea
Out of this World
Around the World
Promotional Tools
Key messages and sample social media messages
Flyers
Sample letter to families
Sample morning announcements
Sample media advisories and newsletter articles
How to Host an Experience:
Organize volunteers
Promote, Promote, Promote!
Gather materials
Organize by station
Evaluate your efforts!
Setting up your stations:
Print the materials from
pta.org/familyreading
Gather other supplies
Train the volunteers
Phonological Awareness is the
ability to identify individual
sounds in spoken words.
Phonological Awareness is the ability
to identify individual sounds in spoken
words.
* No phonological awareness activity for 3-5 because kids
don’t need to work on phonological awareness at that
age. We have included an additional comprehension
activity instead!
Fluency is the ability to read
text quickly, accurately, and
with proper expression.
Fluency is the ability to read
text quickly, accurately, and
with proper expression.
Phonics is the relationships
between sounds and letters.
Phonics is the relationships
between sounds and
letters.
Comprehension is the ability to engage with, understand,
and respond to a text.
Comprehension is the ability to engage with, understand, and respond to a text.
Vocabulary is learning the meaning of specific words, as well as developing word-learning strategies such as knowing the meanings of word parts and using context clues and dictionaries to find the meaning of unknown words.
Vocabulary is learning the meaning of specific words, as well as developing word-learning strategies such as knowing the meanings of word parts and using context clues and dictionaries to find the meaning of unknown words.
Technology using technology to enhance the reading
experience!
Ending Your Experience:
Take home activity
Ending Your Experience:
Evaluate, Evaluate, Evaluate!
Coming July 2015!Summer Reading Challenge
Read Together
Be InspiredShare your Experience
Q & A
National PTA [email protected]
Phone: 703-518-1200
Toll-free: 800-307-4PTA (4782)
www.pta.org/familyreading
