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jlw2505
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DD wants to learn to read
jlw2505
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My DD just turned 4 in Mid June. She is in preschool now and starts a great Pre-K program in the fall. Last night at bedtime after we read stories, I asked her if she wanted to read herself for a bit before bed (she loves to do this - looks at the pictures and pretends to read). Last night when I asked her she told me "Mommy, I don't know how to read. Teach me." It was so sweet. We explained how the words go (left to right) and that once she learns all her letters, we can start to teach her how to read. My DD is a little slower in picking things up than her peers and is still working on letter recognition. Her teachers are great and are really working with her and I know she will get even more practice with this when she starts PreK and they really work on stuff like this. Wondering if anyone has any basic books that they have used at home with their kids or really what you do to help get your child started.
(Just a little background, DD was born with a brain injury but is basically fine other than a speech delay which she had therapy for this winter and will start up again with in the fall. She is slow to learn things like her colors, letters and numbers and is a very energentic child - I will not be surprised if she has ADD or ADHD but she is still to young to know for sure, we and her pedi are watching her closely. She is behind her peers in preschool in a lot of these areas but her teachers work with her a lot)
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DD#1 - 6-16-06
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Re: DD wants to learn to read
Does she have any books memorized? Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Gorilla, and Go Away Big Green Monster are favorites to memorize. Then she can turn the pages, say the words, and "read."
Leap Frog Letter Factory DVD is amazing for teaching letters and sounds.
It's great that she wants to read!
Both my guys learned their letters, letter sounds and basic reading with the Leap Frog DVD series: Talking letters factory, talking words factory, talking storybook factory
We're not big TV watchers around here but there's something about these DVD's that made learning letters and their sounds fun and easy for the guys.
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
love leapfrog talking words factory and storybook factory. my mom also bought dc one that a dvd and multiple short books set that was reading with short words. Look on scholastic's website for beginner reader books... start with 3 letter words. dd has been recognizing her letters since she turned two... she will see a word and sound it out and try.. but really still needs help putting the sounds together.
another thing my mom suggested. writing the word of a color in that color. pick one a day... it's the color of the day. show the word, sound it out, find the color in the room.
DS didn't know any letter sounds at 4, he could just recognize letters. The difference between 4 and 5 is huge, so expect some huge changes this year. Start with learning letter sounds, the LeapFrog DVD is great, as are Spectrum workbooks (you can buy them at Borders). We also just talked a lot about the sounds letter made and eventually started talking about the sounds that are at the beginning, middle and end of words. once DS knew all of the letter sounds, his teachers started word building with him. Rhyming is also great with that. Once she gets word building down, try out the BOB books. They are great!
In the meantime, she'll probably have lots of fun with books that have sight words in them with the written out word underneath the picture. That will get her used to the idea of what reading is and how it works and will help build confidence.
Don't forge the pre-reading skills that don't actually involve reading. Phonological skills: rhyming, tapping/clapping out the syllables in words, naming/matching words that start with a certain sound (not letter, sound). Google "phonemic awareness activities" and see what you can do with those.
And although sounding out is a key component to reading, using context is too. So, as she begins to read, show her to use the pictures to help her. If she read, "the cat is ____" and doesn't know the last word, she can use the picture to see that it is RED.
When you read familiar books (or rhyming books with pics) to her, leave out words and have her fill in the blank. And show her the written word.
Any play activities with upper and lower case letters. Sorting magnetic letters, cutting the letters out of play doh/paper, tracing/writing the letters in shaving cream on a table or a very shallow tub of sand.
Make a letter of the day book. Write a capital and lower case A on a piece of paper, take pics, cut pics out of magazines, collect items, etc that start with "a" (as in apple) and put them on that page. Do Bb on another day.
In the meantime, you can show her that she CAN read when you do fill in the missing word/rhyming activities with her while you are reading.
Have fun with it. Building a strong base with these skills will make for much easier decoding of written language when the time comes.
Just want to piggyback on what susan shared. Everything she suggested is right on. You can also look into finding books that are repetitive (like Brown Bear, Brown Bear and the like) where after a few reads she knows what's coming and can "read" it. My daughter has a Sandra Boynton book, Blue Hat, Green HAt that is very predictable and she reads it to us.
Here's a sight that has lots of awesome phonological awareness activities and ideas. I used it a ton when I was still working (I was an early literacy specialist):
https://www.hubbardscupboard.org/
Good to hear. Thanks. I am not formally educate in reading but, I LOVE learning about reading and learning to read and reading to learn and all of that business. Feels good to know from an early literacy specialist that I am on the right track. It is fascinating stuff (to me)