Motivated Parent - Successful Child: July 2012

Reading Process

"Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning known as reading comprehension."

To visualize the process you can get familiar with a graph below.

Graph comes from http://www.brightminds.com.au/BM_readingprocess.html

Dr. Hollis Scarborough believes that there are many skills which are involved in the automatic and strategic process of reading. See his graph below. It comes from http://www.fcrr.org/science/pdf/torgesen/Utah_keynote.pdf

Gough and Tunmer (1986) preceded Scarborough’s visual categorization and reinforce two main areas for achieving reading comprehension:

Word recognition x language comprehension = reading comprehension

That’s how now my 6 years old daughter reads to me

https://plus.google.com/100969682108352971387/posts/GckwJ8bwzyT

To learn more go to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)
http://www.brightminds.com.au/BM_readingprocess.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)
http://www.fcrr.org/science/pdf/torgesen/Utah_keynote.pdf

Short Stories to Read

Once your child is able to read single words it is time to present short stories.

Find samples below:

Little Boy Blue Sight Words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=2_hB0TRThlg

The Greatest Treasure: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOlM9XdOYo&feature=related

The Four Friends: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwT3sdW960&feature=relmfu

Turtle's Flute: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yL8oSVLP8&feature=relmfu

The Boo in the Shoe: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ekBLBQdnQ&feature=relmfu

I’ve always read to my daughter and that’s how now my 6 years old Basia reads to me when I’m busy cooking a dinner.

https://plus.google.com/100969682108352971387/posts/GckwJ8bwzyT

A lovely collation of the short stories

you can locate on The Starfall website

under “I’m Reading” section

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f

Rhymes in Reading

The ability to hear rhymes is an essential skill for learning to read. Knowing that rat rhymes with bat, not with bag means that your child can discern the differences among individual sounds (or phonemes). Playing with rhymes trains child’s ear to hear the differences and similarities in how words sound.

You can make picture rhyme cards with your child. Then you say the word and the child finds a rhyme word.

Another variation would be a set with pictures and written words.

For a little bit more advance play you need a deck of cards that contains word recognition words learned so far and a small sack. The goal of the activity is to practs reading and finding rhyming words.