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Sunday, July 1, 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

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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
The Greatest Treasure: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
The Four Friends: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
Turtle's Flute: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
The Boo in the Shoe: Learn English with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"

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.

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
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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.
In addition you can play with your child my daughter's favorite rhyme games. See links below.

Rhyming Is So Easy! (Sing-Along) Children's Song –for kids

Rhyming Word Rule – song for kids

Phonics (Rhyming Words) – song for kids

Rhyme Time for children! – for children with no music

Rhyming Words – to learn with now music
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Early Readers

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

Below are my daughter's favorite games for early readers. They will help your child in a reading process.

The Reading Machine 1

The Reading Machine 2

Early reading

Early readers 1a

Early readers 1b

Reading Chart - Sounds to Words 1 by ELF Learning


Phonics Song - Consonant Blends– for kids to read after model with music by ELF Learning

Phonics 2 – blends - by ELF Learning


Phonics 3 - By ELF Learning


Reading Chant - Sounds to Words 2 - The Blends REGGAE – for kids with music by ELF Learning


Phonics Song 3 - Digraphs and Diphthongs "BLUEGRASS" – for kids by ELF Learning

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Short And Long Vowels

"Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning known as reading comprehension."
After teaching your child phonics the next step would be helping him/her to understand differences between short and long vowels.
My daughter's favorite songs will lead you through the process.

English pronunciation phonetic vowel sounds; video and mp3 – more for adults then kids; with no music

VOWELS Song – for kids

VOWELS (B-I-N-G-O) - song with phonetic symbols for adults and kids

Short Vowels Song - for kids

Long Vowel Sounds – with pictures with no music

Long Vowels – song for kids

Between the Lions: "When Two Vowels Go Walking"

When Two Vowels Go Walking

Phonics Song: That Magic e With Miss Jenny

The Magic e Song –song for kids
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Sight Words

Once the child is comfortable with phonics you can move to sight words. What are sight words? There are words which spelling is not straightforward and, therefore, a child/reader is unenable to determine what spoken words they represent just by sounding them out according to the rules. A young reader recognizes sight words from having memorized them.
Reading researcher Diane McGuinness estimates that there are approximately 100 common words in English which fit this description. This number is far less than the 220 sight words listed on the Dolch word list.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/dolchlist.html

Few High Frequency Words
the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it, he, for, was, on, are, as, with, his, they, at, be, this, from, I
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Master Phonics, Unlock Reading Success!

"Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning known as reading comprehension."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)

If you wish to teach your child how to read I would recommend you to start playing with phonics. The child can color, match, listen to or sing them. Below you can find my daughter's favorite sits to accomplish that goal.
Play with phonics:

To play interactively with the phonics click on the link below: 
http://genkienglishonline.com/phonics2.swf

You can get some printable phonics to play with your child:
http://www.english-4kids.com/phonicsheets.html
More printable phonics worksheets:
http://www.kizphonics.com/phonics-program/kindergarten-level-1/worksheets/

Sing songs with phonics:
Phonics Songs by ELF Learning

Phonics Song 1 – Listen and Repeat - faster

Jolly Songs A-Z (from the big book Jolly Songs)

Apple Aaa Song with Hand Motions

ABC Phonics Chant

Consonant Digraphs: sh ch wh th – informational for adults

Double Phonics Chant
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