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Beginning Reading and Writing. For Elementary and Beginner English as a Foreign Language Students. Components of Reading. Phonics Zoo Phonics Onsets and Rimes Sight Words Dolch Words Word Walls Comprehension Graphic Organizers Realia and Visuals. Remembering Letters and Letter Sounds.
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Beginning Reading and Writing For Elementary and Beginner English as a Foreign Language Students
Components of Reading • Phonics • Zoo Phonics • Onsets and Rimes • Sight Words • Dolch Words • Word Walls • Comprehension • Graphic Organizers • Realia and Visuals
Remembering Letters and Letter Sounds • Remember Brain Based Learning • We need to make this visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. • We need to connect new knowledge to background knowledge.
Zoo Phonics and Tailor It • You can start with a program like Zoo Phonics: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I190o_z0HCI • But remember to tailor it for your country and words your students already know. • A for alligator • E for elephant
Letter Sounds • Don’t forget the hand signs! • You can have contests to see who can do the vowels fastest. • Later your students will spell with hand signs! It’s more fun! • Another good phonics program from England: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU
On Sets and Rimes • Everyone knows what rhyming words are! • The first letter or letters are called the onset • While the part that repeats is called the rime.
Onsets and Rimes • Using onsets and rimes is one of the fastest approaches to teaching reading. • Start with easy words like at and an. • Then add words that rhyme with it like bat, etc. • Students will understand that if they can recognize “at”, they can say and recognize bat, etc.
Online books for Onsets and Rimes Website with lots of activities: http://www.wordway.us.com/FamilySets/Toonsat.pdf Little Readers: http://www.littlebooklane.com/ArRdr.pdf Website with lots of activities: http://www.wordway.us.com/FamilySets/Toonsat.pdf Little Readers: http://www.littlebooklane.com/ArRdr.pdf
Dolch Words • This list of words is the 230 words most often used in English: • http://www.dolchsightwords.org/dolch_word_list_pre-primer.php • ..\Desktop\Dolch Sight Words.doc
Word Walls • Now you are ready to build a Word Wall • Word Walls can be used in many ways • Set them up to teach Sight Words • Set them up to teach onsets and rimes • Put different items together such as colors or numbers
Little Books for Comprehension and Graphic Organizers • Make little books with your students. • Show them how to make a graphic organizer – Bubble Map • Make organizers for colors, seasons, clothes, holidays, family, etc. on each page
Little Books and Graphic Organizers • While you are reading, have your students fill in their graphic organizers. • Next have the students work in pairs or groups and make large posters of the organizers and place them on the wall.
Comprehension • Now you are ready to read to your students using these skills • Pick a book that has good pictures • Pick a book that you or your students can act out. • Find one that teaches something in your curriculum like seasons, colors, holidays.
Comprehension • While reading your book, point out pictures and act out the story. • Have your students play characters • Do a picture walk • What do you see in the picture on each page? • What season do you think it is - predict
WritingSentences • After you have finished reading and completing your graphic organizers, you can introduce sentences. • Use sentence starters • I like Christmas because__________ • The colors I see at Christmas are____ • Christmas is in the season of________
Writing Sentences • Have your students use the Word Wall and Graphic Organizers to complete their sentence starters • For older and more advanced students: • Ask for a sentence and write it on the board.
Writing Sentences • Have students help you to write five sentences on the board using the Word Wall and the graphic organizers. • Then have them write five sentences of their own.
Writing • Have your students use the Word Wall to remember words • To help with spelling • To put sentences together • To learn pronunciation. • To learn how to rhyme words
Beginning Reading and Writing • Barbara Williams Dusterhoff • English Language Specialist/Fellow • United States Department of State • bdusterhoff@hotmail.com