Literacy Resources

How is Eagleville School supporting literacy?

Teachers in grades K-2 use phonics-based literacy skills to teach reading. During the Skills Block portion of ELA, teachers implement foundational literacy skills lessons to improve literacy for all students.
Teachers will complete the Read 360 Early Reading Training Course as required by Rutherford County Schools.
Eagleville School will administer universal reading screeners to gauge student progress.
Eagleville School will offer an elementary reading incentive campaign to encourage reading at home.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

Research indicates that phonemic awareness and alphabet recognition are strong predictors of early reading success. In fact, every stage of a child's development of word-level reading is affected by phonological awareness skills.

What is phonemic awareness?

It is the ability to focus on and manipulate speech sounds in words. Phonemic awareness is not the same as phonics. Phonics instruction teaches students how to use letter-sound correspondences to decode and spell words. Learn more about phonemic awareness by clicking here.

Resources for Families

To help students read on grade level by third grade, Tennesse has launched the Reading 360 initiative. One component of this program is to provide families with at-home decodable books. You can order books for your K-2 student by clicking here.

The Florida Center for Reading Research has several resources for families to support reading at home. Here you can find family activities for developing language, linking sounds to letters, blending letters, recognizing and writing words, and reading for understanding.

Another way to support your child's reading at home is to have book chats. To engage your child in conversation, you can ask questions to help them make predictions, inferences, and connections with the text. You can find some sample questions by clicking here.