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Teaching Reading

The document discusses several common approaches to teaching reading skills to children: 1) The Phonics Method teaches sound-letter correspondence and blending skills. 2) The Whole-word Approach relies on sight recognition and memorization. 3) The Language Experience Method uses meaningful vocabulary familiar to the child. It also provides examples of activities to develop reading skills, such as rhyming games, reading aloud, asking questions, and creating a print-rich environment. Sight words and word families are discussed as important concepts.

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Teaching Reading

The document discusses several common approaches to teaching reading skills to children: 1) The Phonics Method teaches sound-letter correspondence and blending skills. 2) The Whole-word Approach relies on sight recognition and memorization. 3) The Language Experience Method uses meaningful vocabulary familiar to the child. It also provides examples of activities to develop reading skills, such as rhyming games, reading aloud, asking questions, and creating a print-rich environment. Sight words and word families are discussed as important concepts.

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TEACHING READING SKILLS

The Common Approaches


• The Phonics Method teaches children to pair sounds with letters
and blend them together to master the skill of decoding.

• The Whole-word Approach teaches kids to read by sight and


relies upon memorization via repeat exposure to the written form
of a word paired with an image and an audio. 

• The Language Experience Method teaches children to read words


that are meaningful to them. Vocabulary can then be combined
to create stories that the child relates to. The idea is that learning
words that the child is already familiar with will be easier.
Peter & Jane (whole word)
• The theory:
– 12 key words make up one quarter of those we
read & write
– 100 key words make up half of those we read &
write
– 300 key words – three quarters of those we read
& write
TEACHING READING ACTIVITIES
• Pointing out similar sounds
• Rhyming games
• Singing
– An example
• Playing the alphabet games
• What starts with this letter/sound?
• Creating print rich environments
• Read aloud
• Readers Theatre
Reading aloud
• Going beyond the covers of the book

• Reading the same thing over and over and


over again

• Using the book as a spark for conversation


READ ALOUD TO YOUR CHILD

• Birth-1 Year: Lullabies, Board Books


(with real pictures), Cloth Books (with various
textures), Song Books
• 1 Year-3 Years: Rhyming Books, Song Books,
Short-Story Board Books
• 3 Years-5 Years: Alphabet Books, Song Books,
Picture Books, Rhyming Books
 ASK QUESTIONS
• Asking questions – encourage child to interact with
the book & develop ability to comprehend what
he is reading.
• While your child is a baby, ask him questions such
as, “Do you see the cat?” while pointing at the
picture of the cat. (develop his vocab)
• As child gets older, ask to point to things in the
book himself and make the noises of the animals
he sees
• 2 or 3-years of age, begin asking questions before,
during, and after reading the book.
PRINT RICH ENVIRONMENT

• A print-rich environment is one in which


“children interact with many forms of print,
including signs, labeled centers, wall stories,
word displays, labeled murals, bulletin boards,
charts, poems, and other printed materials”
(Kadlic and Lesiak, 2003).
WORD FAMILIES
To put it simply, word families are words that rhyme.
 Teaching children word families is a phonemic
awareness activity that helps children see patterns in
reading
SIGHT WORDS
• Sight words (high-frequency words) are the most common
words in our written language are often difficult to decode
phonetically because they don’t follow the rules of phonics.
 Because of this, they must be memorized.  

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