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Source: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Introduction | Reading Rockets. Retrieved Nov 3, 2024, from https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-101-learning-modules/course-modules/phonological-and-phonemic-awareness

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Classroom Activity for Phonemic Awareness

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Classroom Activity for Phonemic Awareness

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In preschool and kindergarten, phonemic awareness is beginning to develop, to help encourage this development in all learners, teachers can plan activities that strengthen the phonemic awareness skills of the children in their class. One such activity is phonemic segmentation. This activity would be done in a small group. The teacher will give each child a few small manipulatives, and show them moving them while counting, then the teacher will say a word with three sounds, such as cat, dog, man, etc. She will then ask each student to "sound out" and segment the word into its phonemes. The children will touch their manipulatives while they say "/k/ /a/ /t/." This activity can be augmented to support children at various developmental levels by using the hand signals from "Zoophonics" or starting with single sounds for a child. Learners who are at a more advanced level can do longer words or blended sounds.

Source: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: In Practice | Reading Rockets. Retrieved Nov 3, 2024, from https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-101-learning-modules/course-modules/phonological-and-phonemic-awareness/practice

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Resources for Families (Phonemic Awareness)

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Resources for Families (Phonemic Awareness)

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https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/big5-strategies-parents-families-phonological-awareness-eng.pdf

This pamphlet helps parents of children from babyhood through to preschool understand and support the development of phonological and phonemic awareness.

For students in my care, I will send home packets with the phonemic awareness theme of the week, with suggestions on how to play with the sound at home and encourage learning, such as reading a book with that sound in it a lot, this packet would also have pictures in it that have the phoneme in them, this would support students with special needs by providing multiple means of engagement and helping families understand how to help them.

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Source: Basics: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness | Reading Rockets. Retrieved Nov 3, 2024, from https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-and-writing-basics/phonological-and-phonemic-awareness

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Zoophonics is a wonderful resource with many activities to help young learners learn phonics. This series of learning activities includes pairing a sound with a letter and a hand motion, providing multi-sensory learning. This is appropriate for learners of all ability levels because it is fun even for those who are not yet ready to understand it, and it can get much more intricate for gifted learners. They also have portions that are specifically targeted for children with special needs or English Language Learners.

Source: https://zoo-phonics.com/

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One great resource for phonics at home is books specifically targeting phonics, such as alphabet books. Parents can help children of all ages and abilities begin to learn phonics by reading these books together and emphasizing the letters and sounds.

https://www.latinoliteracy.com/family-phonics-parent-engagement/

This website is a great resource for families who speak Spanish to learn English phonics.

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Source: International Literacy Association. (2018). Reading fluently does not mean reading fast [Literacy leadership brief]. Newark, DE: Author

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A great classroom activity for fluency for young children is to work on sight words. Sight words help children require less active decoding by memorizing words that may be hard to decode or that they will see frequently when learning to read. This is appropriate for kindergarten students of all ability levels because practicing sight words can be done in a very fun way. There are songs and games that can be done with sight words that will make it fun for kids who may not quite understand it while providing extension activities for children who may be more advanced.

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The best thing a family can do to develop fluency in young learners is to read aloud with them. While reading, follow along the words with your finger. You may choose to stop at an individual word here and there and see if your child knows what that word is - this works best with a well known book that you have read many times before.

A great resource for parents and children experiencing homelessness is the local public library. The library is a safe and warm place to spend time. Library cards are free in most places, and they have any book you could want. This supports learners of all levels because you can find many levels of books in the library.

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Source: Vocabulary: Introduction | Reading Rockets. Retrieved Nov 10, 2024, from https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-101-learning-modules/course-modules/vocabulary

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Instructional routines are great for building vocabulary, when explicitly teaching vocabulary, when you come across a word in a text students may not know, you must teach it to them. A good instructional routine for this would be:

-Introduce the word

-Define the word in a kid-friendly way

-Give examples

-Check for comprehension

-Review

Source: Archer, A., & Hughes, C. (2024, Explicit Instructions | Effective and Efficient Teaching » 7. Vocabulary Instruction – K. Explicit Instruction. Retrieved Nov 9, 2024, from https://explicitinstruction.org/video-elementary/elementary-video-7/

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One of the best things families can do to build their children's vocabulary is just to talk to them! Even little babies benefit from their grown-ups simply narrating their activities. As children get older, we can define words for them while reading, take turns describing things, and even have a child write down a word they hear on TV that they do not know and look it up together afterward. Most of these strategies are accessible to all families, including those with language barriers; one way this could apply would be to find a word the child does not know in their home language and to translate it to English after looking it up!

Source: Madalyn, M. (2023, -12-31T06:00:36+00:00). 4 Vocabulary Development Activities for Families at All Ages. Parent Powered. Retrieved Nov 9, 2024, from https://parentpowered.com/blog/science-of-reading/vocabulary-development/

Reading Rockets also has some great resources for families: https://www.readingrockets.org/literacy-home/reading-101-guide-parents/reading-basics/vocabulary

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Source: Reading 101 for Parents: Comprehension | Reading Rockets. ReadingRockets.org. Retrieved Nov 9, 2024, from https://www.readingrockets.org/literacy-home/reading-101-guide-parents/reading-basics/comprehension

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My favorite classroom strategy for comprehension is retelling! In preschool and kindergarten settings, I love to provide props or felt board pieces that accompany the story and encourage the children to tell me the story. The props help them remember the main characters and setting while allowing them the freedom to play with the story a little bit. I will ask questions that lead them to recall the story as well.

A great extension for this activity would be to allow the children to have some free play time with the props and have them make up their own stories about the characters and objects in the story!

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A great comprehension strategy for families is to read books together and then take turns summarizing the story or retelling it one sentence at a time with your child. You can take turns adding more and more detail to what the story is about; make it fun! This can also be a great time to play and bond with your child.

A great resource with many reading comprehension ideas in both English and Spanish can be found here: https://www.startwithabook.org/parent-tips-reading-writing-and-learning

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"Thank you for implementing a website/program that not only teaches young readers phonics but also incorporates lessons to assist with phonemic awareness and fluency skills-which are so critical for them."

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Children's Reading Resource | Pre-K - 3rd Grade | Home Reading Helper

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Home Reading Helper is a children's reading resource for Pre-K through 3rd grade to help parents at home. Provided by Read Charlotte.

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A Parent Guided Student Workbook for Kids to Learn to Read Using Phonics, Decodables and the Science of Reading (Video Tutorials Included)

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Are you looking to give your child a strong foundation in reading? Teach Me to Read is the perfect resource to help you do just that. Designed for children ages 3 to 1st grade, this comprehensive guide takes a science-based approach to teaching reading, ensuring your child develops the skills needed for lifelong success.

What Sets Teach Me to Read Apart:

Evidence-Based Strategies: Written by Welsley Jongko, M.Ed., an experienced educator and literacy coach, this guide incorporates the latest research on how children's brains learn to read.

Engaging Activities: Each 5-10 minute lesson features multisensory activities and charming illustrations by Jacy Corral, covering letter sounds, phonological awareness, handwriting, decoding, fluency, and more.

Flexible Pacing: Move at your child's speed, whether that's one lesson per day or per week. No pressure, just progress!

How to Use Teach Me to Read:

Lessons are designed to be completed in 5-10 minutes a day, side by side with a parent, teacher or caregiver

Each lesson builds on the previous one, with built-in review and repetition for optimal learning

Follow your child's pace, breaking lessons into smaller parts if needed to accommodate shorter attention spans

Complete 1-3 lessons per week for a total of 26 weeks (approximately 6 months) to finish the book

Detailed teaching routines for letter sound introduction, phonological awareness, and handwriting

Extensive practice with high-frequency words, decoding, fluency grids, phrases, and sentences

8 decodable stories for skills review and application

Over 140 pages of research-backed, engaging content to support your child's literacy journey

A complete word list for easy reference and progress tracking

Finally, an engaging and easy-to-follow book to teach your child to read for the busy parent and child! Teach Me to Read is the go-to guide for parents who would like to provide their child a firm footing for literacy instruction in school. Welsley Jongko's use of quick, routine lessons and QR coded videos are pure genius and will have your child reading in a jiff!

- Brittney Roach, 1st Grade Teacher

Teach Me to Read is perfect for busy parents looking for a practical and impactful resource to support their children in learning to read. Welsley's passion and expertise are evident throughout every page. I can't wait to get started with my own children!

- Kristin Yann, Literacy Coach

Language: English

Released: June 4, 2024

ASIN: 1961355086

ISBN: 978-1961355088

Pages: 142 pages

Size: 8" x 10"

Pen Pals & Postcards: A Creative Workbook for Young Letter Writers

A Parent Guided Student Workbook for Kids to Learn to Read Using Phonics, Decodables and the Science of Reading (Video Tutorials Included)

Empower Your Child to Become a Confident Reader with This Proven Strategy, Developed by Welsley Jongko, M.Ed., an Experienced Educator and Literacy Coach.

Are you looking to give your child a strong foundation in reading? Teach Me to Read is the perfect resource to help you do just that. Designed for children ages 3 to 1st grade, this comprehensive guide takes a science-based approach to teaching reading, ensuring your child develops the skills needed for lifelong success.

What Sets Teach Me to Read Apart:

Evidence-Based Strategies: Written by Welsley Jongko, M.Ed., an experienced educator and literacy coach, this guide incorporates the latest research on how children's brains learn to read.

Engaging Activities: Each 5-10 minute lesson features multisensory activities and charming illustrations by Jacy Corral, covering letter sounds, phonological awareness, handwriting, decoding, fluency, and more.

Flexible Pacing: Move at your child's speed, whether that's one lesson per day or per week. No pressure, just progress!

How to Use Teach Me to Read:

Lessons are designed to be completed in 5-10 minutes a day, side by side with a parent, teacher or caregiver

Each lesson builds on the previous one, with built-in review and repetition for optimal learning

Follow your child's pace, breaking lessons into smaller parts if needed to accommodate shorter attention spans

Complete 1-3 lessons per week for a total of 26 weeks (approximately 6 months) to finish the book

Detailed teaching routines for letter sound introduction, phonological awareness, and handwriting

Extensive practice with high-frequency words, decoding, fluency grids, phrases, and sentences

8 decodable stories for skills review and application

Over 140 pages of research-backed, engaging content to support your child's literacy journey

A complete word list for easy reference and progress tracking

Finally, an engaging and easy-to-follow book to teach your child to read for the busy parent and child! Teach Me to Read is the go-to guide for parents who would like to provide their child a firm footing for literacy instruction in school. Welsley Jongko's use of quick, routine lessons and QR coded videos are pure genius and will have your child reading in a jiff!

- Brittney Roach, 1st Grade Teacher

Teach Me to Read is perfect for busy parents looking for a practical and impactful resource to support their children in learning to read. Welsley's passion and expertise are evident throughout every page. I can't wait to get started with my own children!

- Kristin Yann, Literacy Coach

Language: English

Released: June 4, 2024

ASIN: 1961355086

ISBN: 978-1961355088

Pages: 142 pages

Size: 8" x 10"

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Teach Me to Read is your go-to guide for helping your little one become a confident reader. Packed with fun, easy-to-follow lessons and activities, this book makes teaching reading skills a breeze!

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From Babbling to Reading: Supporting Your Child’s Speech Journey [Ep 79] - Reading Made Delicious

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Reading Made Delicious is a podcast for parents and others who are supporting a child learning to read and early learning at home.

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Reading Rockets - Tips for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

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Reading Rockets - Tips for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

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Parents can have a strong positive influence on their child's reading. Research has shown that enjoying books with a child for even a few minutes a day can make a measurable difference in the acquisition of basic reading skills, and that everyday activities - such as a trip to the grocery store - can be turned into enjoyable learning experiences.

The following is a list of ways in which parents can encourage the development of the skills needed by children in order for them to become good readers.

Create appreciation of the written word

Find time to read aloud with your child every day. Typically, parents play an important role in developing this skill by reading to children and showing how important reading is to their daily life. Lap time with picture books and stories can strongly motivate your child to enjoy reading. Try to make these books available for your children to explore and enjoy on their own as well.

Develop awareness of printed language

Teach about books. When reading aloud to your child, let your child open the book and turn the pages. Point to the words as you read. Draw attention to repeated phrases, inviting your child to join in each time they occur.

Point out letters and words that you run across in daily life. Make an obvious effort to read aloud traffic signs, billboards, notices, labels on packages, maps, and phone numbers. Make outings a way to encourage reading by showing your child how printed words relate to daily living.

Learn the alphabet

Play alphabet games. Sing the alphabet song to help your child learn letters as you play with alphabet books, blocks, and magnetic letters. Recite letters as you go up and down stairs or give pushes on a swing. A-B-C, dot-to-dot and letter-play workbooks, games, and puzzles are available at most toy stores. Many engaging computer games are designed for teaching children letters. Make sure these toys are available even when you are unable to play along.

Watch Sesame Street with your child. Show the child how to sing along, answer the riddles, and engage actively in its fun.

Make writing materials available to your child and encourage their use. Help your child learn to write his/her name and other important words or phrases. Gradually, help the child learn to write more and more letters. At first, most children find it easier to write uppercase letters.

Understand the relation of letters and words

Teach your child to spell a few special words, such as his/her name, stop, or exit. Challenge the child to read these words every place they are seen. Draw attention to these and other frequently occurring words as you read books with your child. Challenge the child to read these words as they arise or to search them out on a page. Play word-building games with letter tiles or magnetic letters. Have the child build strings of letters for you to read.

Understand that language is made of words, syllables, and phonemes

Sing songs and read rhyming books. Sing the alphabet with your child, and teach your child songs that emphasize rhyme and alliteration, such as "Willaby Wallaby Woo" and "Down By the Sea." Emphasize the sounds as you sing. Play rhyming games and clap out names. Jumble the wording or word order of familiar poems and challenge your child to detect the error. Talk like a robot, syllable by syllable.

Play word games. Challenge your child to play with words. For example, ask your child to think of words that rhyme with bat or begin with /m/. What would be left if you took the /k/ sound out of cat? What would you have if you put these sounds together: /p/ and ickle; /m/ and ilk; and /s/, /a/, and /t/. Which of these words starts with a different sound - bag, candy, bike? Do boat and baby start with the same sound?

Learn letter sounds

Sound out letters. Point out other words that begin with the same letter as your child's name, drawing attention to the similarities of the beginning sound. Use alphabet books, computer games, or car games such as, "I'm thinking of something that starts with /b/" to engage the child in alliterative and letter-sound play. If you have a book that lends itself to alliteration and rhyme, such as a Dr. Seuss book, sound out rhyming words as you read or challenge the child to do so for you. Play word games that connect sounds with syllables and words. For example: If this spells cat, how do you spell hat?

Sound out new words

Point out new words. As you encounter them, say the sound while touching each letter in a new word. For example, say "s-u-n" and then blend sounds to create the word. In practicing new words, use predictable words with common sounds and spellings, like fun or sat instead of night or saw.

If you encounter words with unknown meanings or with complex spellings, encourage your child to try to sound out the words. However, if too many words require this kind of attention and effort, it is best to find an easier book.

Play spelling games with your child. After your child begins pronouncing words, encourage spelling by saying each sound in the words and then writing the letter that goes with the sound.

Encourage your child to spell. After your child has learned to pronounce words, have the child say each sound.

Independent writing. Encourage your child to use inventive or independent spelling. At this stage, the child will tend to omit letters and confuse letter names with letter sounds, producing such spellings as LFNT for elephant, BN for bean, and FARE for fairy. Use correction wisely. What you should be most concerned about is the child's sensitivity to the sounds that need to be represented.

Identify words in print accurately and easily

Help your children to read easy, enjoyable stories as often as possible. It is likely that your child will enjoy reading more and learn more from reading if you sit together, taking turns reading and encouraging discussion. In the beginning, invite the child to read well-chosen words. Gradually, as the child becomes able, take turns with sentences, speakers, paragraphs, and pages. At the end of each section or story, revisit those words that caused trouble. Rereading the entire story over several days, and again weeks later, is a powerful way to reinforce this learning.

Know spelling patterns

Now it becomes useful to point out the similarities between words such as will, fill, and hill or light, night, and sight. This is also the time to help your child learn the correct spelling of the words he/she writes.

Learn to read reflectively

Pause for discussions as you read. As you read stories to and with your child, stop frequently to discuss their language, content, and relevance to real life and other knowledge. Pause to explore the meanings of new words, using them in other sentences and contrasting what they mean with words that have similar meanings. Make an effort to revisit new words and concepts later, when the book has been put aside.

When reading stories, pause to discuss the various characters, problems, events in the story, and invite your child to think about how the problems might be solved or to wonder about what might happen next. When resuming a story, ask your child to review what has happened so far, drawing attention to looming mysteries and unresolved conflicts. In reading expository text, invite the child to marvel at the creatures or events described and to wonder about details or connections not mentioned by the text.

Above all: read, read, and re-read.

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Literacy Tips for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities

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These tips for parents of children with learning disabilities emphasize to all parents the importance of helping children learn about letters and sounds. Get concrete advice for teaching the alphabet, raising awareness about sounds, and promoting letter-sound knowledge.