Lisa Collins is the Reading Club Coordinator for sport teams.
Contact Lisa for more information.
Lisa@NewHeightsEducation.org

Reading Program
Tin Caps Reading Program Ticket Order Form needs to be sent into Lisa Collins along with money due ASAP.

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sight Words
Help for teaching vowels, sight words, and etc
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/sightvocab_1.html

http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/shortvowel_1.html

Office of Early Learning and School Readiness for your 3 - 4 year old child. This is income based, but worth checking into. http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ece
Eligibility: have a preschool child who is at least 3 years old;
have at least one parent working at least one hour per week;
meet income requirements (e.g. a family of four earning up to $35,808 per year); or are caring for a preschool child who is at least 3 years old and is receiving child-only cash assistance through the Ohio Works First program.
It's vital that beginning readers (adult or child) master basic sight words. Did you know that the three hundred most common high-frequency words make up nearly 65% of common reading material, like newspapers? The problem is that most of these very common words simply do not follow the phonetic rules. We see them day in and day out, and we adults forget just how confusing they can seem to an emergent reader. Words like "said" and "gone" defy standard word attack tools. They must be memorized, and they must be memorized early in the process of learning to read.

Common Sight Word Lists
If your child is studying reading from any of the common reading programs, chances are good that he or she is learning sight words from a published list. There are several common ones, and you can access them right here:
Mrs. Perkins' First Grade Dolch lists
http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm

Activities to Practice Sight Words
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=sight+words

Getting bored with plain old flashcard drill? Here are some wonderfully painless ways to get the job done with your students.
Reading Education Glossary
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reading+education+glossery&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

United States Literacy Statistics
http://www.CASAS.org

Setting Goals with Adults
More information can be found at
http://www.allinfoaboutreading.com/Adult_Literacy.html

Sight Words
It's vital that beginning readers master basic sight words.
Did you know that the three hundred most common high-frequency words make up nearly 65% of common reading material, like newspapers?
The problem is that most of these very common words simply do not follow the phonetic rules.
We see them day in and day out, and we adults forget just how confusing they can seem to an emergent reader. Words like "said" and "gone" defy standard word attack tools.
They must be memorized, and they must be memorized early in the process of learning to read.
Common Sight Word Lists
If your child is studying reading from any of the common reading programs, chances are good that he or she is learning sight words from a published list. There are several common ones, and you can access them right here.
Lesson Plan: Practice Sight Words 1.
http://www.allinfoaboutreading.com/Lesson_Plans.html

Reviews
Are you searching for just the right book or product to meet your students' needs?
Maybe you are looking for the right game or educational toy to pique your youngster's interest in reading.
Sometimes, we just need information about some aspect of the process of learning to read. Whatever is going on, check out the articles, reviews and links on All Info About Reading to find just what you are looking for!
Book Reviews
http://www.meddybemps.com

Get more information about a handy sight word resource: Dr. Fry's 1000 Instant Words.
http://www.spirit-lake.k12.ia.us/ES/Reading/fourth/fry.htm

Free E-books
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Free Online Books
Scroll to the bottom of the home page and click on “Free Books”. There you can access more than 5,000 full classics from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to enjoy right on your screen.
Questia.com

Free online library with thousands of books for students
www.readprint.com

Free E-books Forum
www.teachyourselfanything.net/free-ebooks.html

Reading Tips
Are you having a hard time teaching your child to read?
I had a terrible time teaching my son to read, I tried everything I could think of! I started out with a really good Phonics book from the library and I begin to teach him his phonics. He still didn't know how to put the sounds together. I tried many reading curriculums and other hands on activities.
Another teacher suggested something that sounded so easy. She said to set next to my son and not to interrupt him when he was reading. To watch him read and write down all the words he missed, after each page I was to stop him at the end of a sentence and tell him what words he had missed and show him the words. We typed up the list of words he missed onto Microsoft Word. The list was long and we added to it everyday, it felt as though we we'd never learn them all. But we would go over the list everyday along with his new words. As my son remembered the words for more then three days in a row we would highlight the words that he remembered into his favorite colors. We did this until we were sure he wouldn't forget them and then we took them off his list for good. This usually took about a week. We had to do this everyday it was a long process. But before we knew it he started reading faster and faster he was remembering the words that he once didn't know. When we practiced the words I would have him sound them out and break them down as much as possible. Within the first year of doing this he scored at his grade level on the IOWA and within the second year he was two years above his grade level. Now I call that process! :-) I hope it helps you.