Transcript Helping You Child Learn to Read

Helping Your Child
Learn to Read
Tips and Hints to Help Your Child at Home or
How the Help with Reading in the Classroom
What is Reading?
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Reading is about understanding written texts.
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Reading is a complex activity
that involves both perception
and thought.
What is Reading?
Reading consists of two related processes:
word recognition and comprehension.
 Word recognition refers to the process of
perceiving how written symbols correspond to
one’s spoken language.
 Comprehension is the process of making sense
of words, sentences and connected text.
 Readers typically make use of background
knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical
knowledge, experience with text and other
strategies to help them understand written text.
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Becoming Readers and Writers
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By the time most children enter Kindergarten,
they have already learned a lot about
language. For five years, they have watched,
listened to, and interacted with adults and
other children. They have played,
explored, and made discoveries
at home, pre-school and/or
day care.
Becoming Readers and Writers
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Beginning or during Kindergarten, most
children have naturally developed language
skills and knowledge. They…
Know print carries meaning
Know what written language looks like
Can identify and name letters of the alphabet
Know letters are associated with sounds
Know the sounds letters make
Know using words can serve a purpose
Know how books work
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
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While we initially allow children to predict the
text, we want children to move quickly to
reading the exact words on the page.
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To help children do this it is important that
children begin by pointing to each word as they
read. This helps children quickly see of they
are reading the correct number of words.
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This is called reading with 1:1 correspondence.
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
My Dad is cooking the dinner.
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
My Dad is cooking the dinner.
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What the child has said matches the picture and
is grammatically correct, however when asked
to point to the words the child should discover
that they have said too many words.
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
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When your child points to the words as they
read it also reinforces that reading goes from
left to right and helps them to understand that
the word he or she says is the word he or she
sees.
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This also gives children a chance to
recognise and find sight words/tricky words
that they have been covering in class reading
programs.
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
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It is important that children can see each
word clearly as they read.
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Make sure that when your child points to the
words they can still see each word clearly.
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
Reading With 1:1 Correspondence
How to Learn Letter Sounds
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Children should be beginning to
recognise and use individual sounds
to read unknown words.
Activities to help children remember sounds:
• I – Spy using beginning with the sound “s”
• How do you know that word says “box”?
• Tell me 5 things that start with “m”.
• Using magnetic letters get your child to make
words you sound out/tell them
• Get your child to help write the shopping list by
sounding out words
What To Do When…
Your child comes to an unknown word
Do not jump in straight away and tell your child
the word
 Go back to the beginning of the sentence and
re-read up to the unknown word then…
 Predict what word would make sense (use the
first sound as a guide when predicting)
 Encourage them to try to “sound out”
the first few letters of the word
 Get them to look at the picture
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Questions to Ask Your Child When
They Get Stuck
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What word would make sense in this place?
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What word would go here that starts with “b”?
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Does that make sense?
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Does that match with the picture?
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Did you read every word?
Make sure you do not leave
out words or put extra words in.
Reading and Writing Are Linked
Reading and writing are closely related.
 Developing reading skills through writing is an
effective strategy. For young children, learning
to write and spell helps to develop their
awareness of print conventions. It also makes
them aware of the symbolic nature of print.
 Writing also helps to establish the connection
between oral and written language.
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Reading and Writing Are Linked
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Children should be beginning to recognise
that words look the same no matter whether
they are reading them or writing them.
10 Points to Remember
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Read regularly with your child (five or six
days a week if you can)
Give your child time to browse through a
book before attempting to read it
Show confidence in your child's abilities.
Your lack of confidence may affect your
child's ability to read.
Don't tell your child you are worried about
his/her reading progress.
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Get your child to read to other people
besides you. Try a grandma, neighbour,
uncle, aunt, friend etc. It could make a big
difference with your child's confidence to
read.
Do not expect too much to soon. Don't push
too hard for immediate results. It takes time!
Are you always rushed? Do you give your
child enough time to read or write?
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Provide opportunities for your child to write.
Such as shopping lists, names on letters to
friends or relatives, the child's own name at the
bottom of a letter or card you have written.
Use books at the correct level. Use easy books
to encourage your child's abilities and
confidence. Don't choose books that are too
hard; that may undermine your child's
confidence.
10 Points to Remember
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If you do all the above and you are still
worried, your child's hearing or eye sight
may have something to do with the reading
problem. Visit your doctor for a check-up
because hearing or eyesight
could affect his/her ability to learn.
A Few Words About Fluency,
Vocabulary and Comprehension
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It is important that children develop the ability to
read a text accurately and quickly, or reading
fluency. Children must learn to read words
rapidly and accurately in order to understand
what is read. When fluent readers read silently,
they recognise words automatically. When
fluent readers read aloud, they read effortlessly
and with expression. Readers who are weak in
fluency read slowly, word by word, focusing on
decoding words instead of comprehending
meaning.
A Few Words About Fluency,
Vocabulary and Comprehension
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Fluency in reading means being able to read
text accurately, quickly and with expression.
Fluent readers can do this because they do
not have problems with word recognition. As a
result, they can focus on the meaning of a text.
Recent research shows that fluency also
depends on the ability to group words
appropriately during reading. This means
fluent readers recognise words quickly, but
also know where to place emphasis or pause
during reading.
A Few Words About Fluency,
Vocabulary and Comprehension
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It is important that children learn the meaning
and pronunciation of words, or vocabulary
development. Children need to actively build
and expand their knowledge of written and
spoken words, what they mean and how they
are used.
A Few Words About Fluency,
Vocabulary and Comprehension
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It is important that children acquire strategies to
understand, remember and communicate what
is read, or reading comprehension
strategies. Children need to be taught
comprehension strategies, or the steps good
readers use to make sure they understand text.
Students who are in control of their own
reading comprehension become purposeful,
active readers.
Conclusion
Reading is a skill that will empower everyone
who learns it. The competent reader will be
able to benefit from the store of knowledge in
printed materials and, ultimately, to contribute
to that knowledge.
 Teamwork between home and
school enables students to learn
to read and read to learn.
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