Timrod Curriculum Night: Reading Strategies for Parents Timrod Elementary strives to build positive relationships and partnerships with parents/ guardians and equip them with the tools they need to better assist their children at home. Parent workshops are one way we accomplish this goal. These workshops not only provide important information for parents but are also interactive, allowing the parents to be active participants. Recently, Timrod held its first Curriculum Night for parents and students. This Curriculum Night focused on reading strategies that parents could use with their children, which included fluency and comprehension. After a brief information session, parents rotated through four stations. These stations were representative of the station rotation model of Blended Learning that is utilized in the classrooms. Stations included “Questioning Before, During, and After Reading,” “Chunking,” “Decoding,” and “Fluency.” In these teacher-led stations, parents were introduced to the strategy and participated in a reading lesson for the station. Parents were encouraged to discuss, ask questions, and try the strategy with their child. At the completion of the rotations, parents gathered as a group for closure and discussed their learning for the evening with the other parents. This fun evening was full of learning, laughter, and relationship-building. Parents left with reading tools that will benefit their child in reading and help transfer the learning from school to home. Our goal is for children to love reading and learn to read for various purposes. Our hope is these reading experiences will help develop successful readers and strengthen parent-child bonds, all while laying the foundation for a love of learning.
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