EARLY READING

More practical things to share. When your child has learned most of the letters, you can start working on three-letter words and making simple books to start the reading process. Your goal in making the books is to have simple text with high interest picture clues to encourage your emergent reader. The text should include a simple sentence pattern that repeats throughout the book. As you read these books daily with your child, he or she will pick up simple sight words, like AND, THE, CAN, LOOK, SEE, as well as color words and family names. YOU ALSO WANT YOUR CHILD TO LEARN HOW TO TRACK TEXT WITH ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDENCE.

It is hard for me to post pictures in the order I desire; I'm too pressed for time to learn this. Bare with me as I describe some techniques with the accompanying pictures out of order.

YOU CAN START MAKING/READING THREE-LETTER WORDS WITH FOAM BATH LETTERS FIRST. IT'S A CONVENIENT AND CASUAL WAY TO START. THIS HELPS THEM LEARN TO BLEND SOUNDS, WHICH IS RARELY A CUT AND DRY PROCESS. IT TAKES TIME TO LEARN. RESEARCH SHOWS THAT KIDS WHO ARE READ TO OFTEN AND EARLY PICK UP BLENDING AND SEGMENTING EARLIER. THIS IS PART OF PHONEMIC AWARENESS.

I FOUND THIS LETTER/WORD SET AT WALMART. IT COMES WITH SIMPLE, THREE-LETTER WORD PICTURES AND INDIVIDUAL COLOR-CODED LETTERS (color of letters matches the accompanying pictures). YOU CAN use these to PRACTICE SIMPLE SPELLING WITH THEM, WHICH WILL GET THE BEGINNING READING PROCESS MOVING.

A WORD FAMILY, MAKING-WORDS BOOK IS A VALUABLE TOOL for this same purpose.. YOU CAN USE THE DURABLE WALMART LETTERS FOR THE MAKING WORDS LESSONS. THESE LESSONS TEACH ONSETS AND RIMES ALSO. THIS AUTHOR IS JUDY LYNCH. typing one-handed again today. CAN YOU TELL?

Set your preschooler up with tubs of activities so you can teach and so the preschooler feels involved. Keep changing the activities every few days. I belt her in her booster seat for this. We had to put our puzzle pieces in tubs; Emily tends to dump puzzles without always finishing them. It is a good exercise for her to have to sort through the pieces to gather what she needs for a certain puzzle.