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Partners in Promoting Learning: Helping your child with reading skills – Module 2

Playing with Letters and Language. Partners in Promoting Learning: Helping your child with reading skills – Module 2. Learning the alphabet. Research shows that one of two essential skills for early reading is knowing the alphabet. S. “ ess ”. “ sss ”. Knowing Letter Names.

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Partners in Promoting Learning: Helping your child with reading skills – Module 2

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  1. Playing with Letters and Language Partners in Promoting Learning: Helping your child with reading skills – Module 2

  2. Learning the alphabet • Research shows that one of two essential skills for early reading is knowing the alphabet S “ess” “sss” Knowing Letter Names Knowing Letter Sounds

  3. Ways of teaching the alphabet • Singing the ABC does not equal knowing the alphabet A B C D … A B C D E F

  4. Ways of teaching ABCs • Alphabet books • Parents use alphabet books to teach pre-reading skills

  5. Ways of teaching ABCs • Read alphabet books aloud to children • Point out letters • Emphasize initial sounds “FFFourFFFluffyFFFeathers”

  6. Alphabet books • Picking the right alphabet book • Some alphabet books do not provide good/ consistent matches for letter sounds

  7. Alphabet books • Picking the right alphabet book • Some alphabet books do not provide good/ consistent matches for letter sounds Bad Letter-Sound Matches C ✔ Cheetah Cow

  8. Funny Kids Song with examples of bad letter-sound matchesCrazy ABC’s By: Barenaked Ladies

  9. Alphabet books • O is for octagon • I is for imp • A is for airplane • T is for tree Letter Sound ok… But Confusing Words

  10. Characteristics of good alphabet books Key letter in large print ApplevsApple

  11. Characteristics of good alphabet books Key letter in simple print A vs.A A vs.A

  12. Characteristics of good alphabet books Few words Simple objects Most common letter-sound match B is for bed A is for apple C is for cat

  13. Characteristics of good alphabet books Common, unambiguous objects as focus B is for bed

  14. Other tips • Try to personalize the letter sounds • Child’s name • Parent (Mom, Dad) • Find a match with your child’s name A C C lison arl indy

  15. Other tips Common to confuse similar looking letters b d

  16. Playing with language • Poetry • Nonsense rhymes `Twasbrillig, and the slithytoves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe…. There once was a lady named Sue, who had nothing whatever to do… Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you…

  17. How children learn language? • Figure out what kind of word it is from context. • Real word context The dog had a bone.

  18. Show me the corroflont

  19. Jabberwocky Twasbrillig, and the slithytovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the momerathsoutgrabe.

  20. How can poetry help? • Learn to play with language • Learn new words • Listen to sounds of language, not just meaning

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