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Pre-K students and their parents participate in the Read Aloud Station of the first Family Reading Night hosted by Littlefield Primary School on Monday. (Submitted Photo) -
Participants of the Family Reading Night get their faces painted, during the first Family Rreading Night event hosted by Littlefield Primary School on Monday, Sept. 27th. (Submitted Photo)
Littlefield Primary hosted their first Family Reading Night Monday, September 27. The event was designed to help families enjoy reading together and enable them to practice techniques that will promote their child’s literacy with fun and engaging activities. The event featured “stations” for Pre-K, Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.
The Pre-K station was Reading Aloud. The families were encouraged to have a reading for twenty minutes every evening. Parents were given bookmarks printed with questions to ask their children following the reading. The exercise is designed to develop reading comprehension. The primary has also introduced “Wildcat Wednesdays” an online video program that features volunteers from Littlefield High School who read to the children on the Littlefield Primary School’s Facebook page. Principal Staci Sumners reported that the students love the videos.
The kindergarten station was the Phonological Awareness House which cultivates the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in spoken language. This activity helps the students learn about rhyming, syllables, segmentation, alliteration, and phoneme isolation. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in a word. Parents received a recipe for Playdough for use in this exercise.
The first grade station was Text Features. Text features help the reader better understand and visualize topics. These features are most often used in non-fiction literature. Text features bring attention to important details and illustrate additional information that is not in the written text.
The second grade station was “the retelling hand” that teaches young readers the five points of good story retention and retelling. The points are who, what, when, where, why.
The school had a book walk that rewarded the winners with a book. The staff served popcorn and waters, and held drawings for door prizes.