Kindergarten lessons for reading

Lesson Plans for Kindergarten Reading

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In this post, I’m going to share the second week of lesson plans from the 3-part series we’ve got going on here at Reading Simplified. Previously, I shared lesson plans for brand new readers (which you can view here but this time, we’re taking it up a notch, and I’ll be sharing lesson plans for NEARLY new beginners.

I know what you’re thinking…what’s a nearly new beginner?

To put it simply, a nearly new beginner is someone who knows a few letter-sounds but not a whole lot. This second week of lesson plans will not only make your life easier, but it’ll also move those nearly new beginners into reading far faster than most mainstream approaches.

In the first week of lesson plans for those brand-new readers, we did Build It, Read It, Read New Text and Re-Read. But for the second week of lesson plans, we’re substituting Build It for Switch It.

{To watch a video where I explain the second week, hit play below or read on for a detailed overview}

Build It Vs. Switch It: When is it time to move onto Switch It?

Both Build It and Switch It are designed to accelerate reading achievement but for different stages of the process.

Build It is the perfect introductory lesson for brand-new readers who don’t know any letter-sounds. These kids are literally brand-new to reading and therefore, need a lot of pre-reading practice and experience.

When kids try Build It, it helps to improve their basic knowledge of the following:

Letter-Sounds
The Alphabetic Principle
Phonemic Segmentation
Phonemic Awareness
Left to Right Tracking
The Concept of a Word

If a student knows around five to seven letter-sounds, it’s time to move onto Switch It.

Switch It works on phonemic manipulation.

For example, you might ask a student to switch CAT to COT and then COT to COD. This higher level of phonemic processing helps to develop a child’s brain in the area that’s most important for early reading.

It’s this quick, automatic phonemic processing that gives kids the same ah-ha! moment that Einstein experienced when the apple fell on his head, and he discovered gravity. But in this case, those nearly new beginners catch on to how the code works and how sounds and symbols line up.

Would you like to see Switch It in action?

Here’s a short video (hit play) where you can see how a 4-year old leaps ahead with the Switch It activity:

Teaching Blend As You Read

The second key step to working with nearly new readers is Read It, which uses the Blend As You Read strategy to teach kids to blend the letter-sounds of a word from left to right.

If your students have been learning the sound, sound, sound, word approach, it can be challenging to get them used to a new strategy. But it’s worth it because it will get them on the road towards becoming good readers much faster than mainstream methods.

With Blend As You Read, you want them to blend the sounds as they go. For example, if you were teaching them to read the word MAP, you’d cover the “P” with a card and encourage the student to blend the first two sounds.

If they struggle, you can model it for them and let them copy you. Then, reveal the last letter, and hopefully, the student will be able to put the word together by connecting sounds left to right.

If you’d like to see a more in-depth overview of Blend As You Read, click here, or watch the example video of guided reading using the Blend As You Read strategy.

3-Step Lesson Plans for Kindergarten Reading

The lesson plan for nearly new beginners gives you a weekly overview of activities and word lists to focus on. But don’t worry, you don’t have to do each word on the word lists. It’s more important to focus on the major activities such as Switch It and Read It.

You’ll notice that as the week progresses, you’ll have to switch out vowels as much as possible because that’s usually the toughest part for youngsters to tackle. In the beginning, you’ll start with continuant consonants, which makes it easier for beginning (or struggling) readers to separate sounds.

At the end of each day on the lesson plan, I provide a recommended text sourced from starfall.com. It’s important to re-read as much as possible and try some Buddy Reading to help kids move along.

TOP TIP: One thing to remember when choosing what text to read for the day is to pick something that targets the same sound you’ve been targeting in Word Work activities. This will help to reinforce those letter-sounds!

A brief overview…

Below I’m going to share a summary of what you can expect from the 3-Step Lesson Plan For Nearly New Beginners, including a few sample words from the word lists as well as what short vowels you’ll be focusing on and my recommended reading texts.

Monday

Today’s Short Vowels: a & i
Switch It (samples from the word list): map, mad, sad, sat and sit
Read It: mat, sit and map
Reading New Text & Re-Reading: Zac the Rat

Tuesday

Today’s Short Vowels: a, i & o
Switch It (samples from the word list): fit, bit, bat and bad
Read It: hit, hop and rip
Reading New Text & Re-Reading: The Big Hit

Wednesday

Today’s Short Vowels: a, i & e
Switch It (samples from the word list): ten, tin, pin and pen
Read It: got, let and box
Reading New Text & Re-Reading: Mox’s Shop

Thursday

Today’s Short Vowels: a, i & u
Switch It (samples from the word list): fan, fun, sun and such
Read It: got, chin and get
Reading New Text & Re-Reading: Peg Hen

Friday

Today’s Short Vowels: a, i & u
Switch It (samples from the word list): ask, mask, mast and fast
Read It: much, ask and give
Reading New Text & Re-Reading: Gus the Duck

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TEACHING LITERACY - Kindergarten Lessons

Winter theme literacy activities

Teaching literacy always begins with reading to your students, a fun and enjoyable activity for everyone.

Give your students positive experiences with books, such as acting out the stories, creating story characters with craft materials, and responding to literature with art, music and drama.

Make a few story characters with scraps of paper, glue, and scissors, then use them to act out the story.

Your students will soon be copying you and creating their own wonderful creatures (see Snow Bear image below right). Rather than using worksheets, where everybody’s animals look the same, trust your students to come up with their own wonderful critters.

Reading and rereading stories to your students will provide them with a diet rich in language, and give you opportunities to introduce new vocabulary.

More than worksheets

Teaching literacy is so much more than handing out phonics worksheets or having students plod through workbooks.

Tell stories verbally
Sing songs and chant poems with your students
Bring interesting objects related to the stories into the classroom and discuss them
Show large pictures of people from other cultures to help students learn words to describe their world
Try to have at least two relaxed read aloud sessions a day in your routine.

The Three Snow Bears

Teaching literacy with predictable Winter books

Read and reread Rain by Robert Kalan and Donald Crews.

Make mini-books based on the book such as, “Snow on the green grass, snow on the purple flower” or “Frost on the…”
Encourage kids to come up with different ideas from the book
Create your own ending to match the style of the book, such as a big snowman on the last page.

Teaching Literacy with a Winter Writing Center

Prepare little books for the children to draw in, such as “Winter, winter what is winter?”
Photocopy the frame sentence “Winter is ____” on each page
Add words with pictures, to the writing center bulletin board for the children to copy.
As always, model the activity to the group first using a larger version of what you would like them to do. E.g. Winter is cold snow, winter is snowmen, winter is hot chocolate…

Tips for Reading Stories

Choose books with large clear illustrations so the children sitting at the back of the group can see them too.
I found that many books use too many pronouns, making it difficult for young children to follow the story. It is easy to substitute nouns to make comprehension easier for them. For example in a story about a dog and its bone the text might read, “He took it over there”. When reading the story out loud the first few times, I would substitute, “The dog took his bone over to the couch.”

Teaching literacy is an all day activity

Whether you are conducting a science experiment or cooking with your students, there are abundant opportunities for reading, writing, and language awareness. Create reading and writing centers in your classroom and give the centers frequent attention.

Make visiting the school library an exciting event. Make your students special “Library Passports” that the librarian stamps with each visit. Your students will soon catch your enthusiasm about reading and writing.

Teaching Literacy with Winter Books

Read books about the New Year, the order of months, month by month books
Do a Jan Brett author study.
Compare Jan Brett’s books, her illustration style, her use of borders. The children are soon able to name her as the author just by looking at the book covers.
Put Jan Brett books into your winter book display.

Teach literacy by reading and rereading stories with winter themes

Joyful illustrations and the simple text of Snow (I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books), by P.D. Eastman make it a great read.

White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Treselt and Roger Duvoisin First published in 1947, “White Snow, Bright Snow” captures the wonder children feel during a snowfall.

The Mitten by Jan Brett – Kids love Jan Brett’s story about the snowy white mitten and love to join in after a few readings.

The Mitten by Alvin Tresselt. Another version of this great tale.

Another all time winter favorite is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Keat’s award winning books are a must for the classroom. His stories also come in a DVD format.

goals, benefits, program with exercises

After the child has learned to read in syllables, he will have to master the skill of reading full-fledged texts. Teaching children to read is a complex and time-consuming process that requires the right approach. This article will cover all the important issues. concerning the introduction of children to literature.

The importance and purpose of reading for preschoolers

Reading is a skill that every adult needs. The sooner the kid starts learning to work with texts, the sooner he will be able to take advantage of all the benefits that will become available to him. nine0003

Learning to read is best with parents

Reading is responsible for the development of such skills as the analysis of the text read, the perception and retelling of the information received. It replenishes vocabulary and develops logical thinking. Working with fiction already at an early age forms a competent, beautiful and correct speech, and the child himself learns to freely express his thoughts in his native language.

Reading is also responsible for the formation of moral and cultural values, character and worldview. With its help, the baby indirectly gets acquainted with the past, future and present. The most important spiritual qualities, such as mercy, compassion, the joy of someone else's success, children also often draw from books. nine0003

The goal of reading fiction in kindergarten is to master all of the above skills, and most importantly, to instill in children a love of reading. All this can be achieved with the help of works of Russian folklore. Interesting and fascinating stories of fairy tales will teach the younger generation to see the plot, climax, denouement in the work. On a subconscious level, they will catch what the plot is and will be able to divide the characters into "good" and "bad". All this develops logical thinking and contributes to comprehensive development. nine0003

Important! Literary education plays a huge role for preschoolers, because it is one of the key factors in their upbringing. The book will become a means of understanding the surrounding world, its way of life and foundations.

At what age can you start learning

Each kid needs an individual approach, so there is no clear age when you need to start teaching him to read. There are generally accepted age limits, but even here there are many pitfalls.

Modern realities force inexperienced parents to chase time, and this often affects their children. Ambitious adults try to invest in the child all the skills as early as possible: knowledge of foreign languages (often English), reading and much more. Now a child who came to the first grade, being able to read, is not uncommon. But is it necessary to take away their childhood from preschool children for what they will be taught anyway in the future? Each parent decides for himself.

Every parent decides when to teach a child to read

Determining the optimal age to start reading classes ends with the fact that the best time is when the child reaches for literature on his own. As a rule, this is a period between six and seven years.

Important! A child cannot just pick up and want to learn to read. Everything should come from the family. In order for the baby to independently take the initiative, he must learn this from adults. Parents should read aloud to him before going to bed, be able to turn spending time together into a game. nine0003

It is unlikely that a child of 3-4 years old will want to read a book on his own. At this age, he can be taught to mechanically add syllables into words, but he will not understand the meaning of what he read. This practice often leads to the formation of an internal barrier to further learning, and there is no benefit from it.

When a child begins to be interested in books, parents need to be able not to take this interest away from him.

Please note! When the kid nevertheless reached for literature, he did not become an adult. All learning should not take much time - at this age, it is difficult for children to focus on long-term perception of information, and even more so on its comprehension. nine0003

The ideal option is to turn reading for toddlers into an entertaining game. Then the learning process will not be perceived with rejection, which is a normal reaction of the brain to something new.

However, even if a child of 6-7 years old cannot read, this is not backwardness, but a normal phenomenon. It's time to start teaching him this. The GEF program offers tasks for learning to read from scratch at this age. Often, audio lessons are sold as an app for textbooks.

How to start your first reading

There are a huge number of methods that offer parents the most sophisticated options for gently teaching children to read. But is it worth it to surround the child with cards with words from 5-6 months?

Parents also learn in the process

In order for reading to children aged 5-6 not to become news, it is necessary to surround the child with written information from childhood. The alphabet on the wall, books in the house, cubes with letters - the kid must get used to the fact that textual information is an indispensable part of life. nine0003

Everything should go from simple to complex. First letters, then syllables, then words, sentences, and text. Learning letters with a child is not difficult if you turn everything into a game. For example, you can print coloring pictures with letters on cards, and in the process of coloring invent which words begin with this letter.

Important! We must not forget about the most important component of the Russian language - sounds. It is necessary to teach the child to understand and pronounce sounds in a timely manner. This will help him master reading much faster. nine0003

When the child has mastered the letters, syllables and sounds, you can move on to reading words. It is important to be patient with classes and make sure that the child does not feel discomfort. Do not rush him if he thought about the name of the next letter. Each lesson is the work of two, but the main task lies with an adult.

Additional information. Do not exercise with your child for more than 15-20 minutes a day. This is the optimal time for which the baby can concentrate, subject to interest. Fast learning to read does not depend on the duration of the lessons, but on their regularity and quality. nine0003

Reading short stories or fairy tales before bed is a good option for the first group activities. This is suitable for those cases when the baby has already mastered the letters and syllables. At this time, the parent reads the text on his own, occasionally inviting the child to try to read this or that word. It is worth choosing words that make sense, but not too complicated.

For example, if the story is about a snail, you can ask the child to read the word "snail" and show it in the picture. The main thing is to make sure that the child does not learn to guess the words by the connection of the first letter and the picture. How to avoid this will be discussed below. nine0003

If a parent really wants to teach a child to read, but absolutely does not know how to approach this matter, it makes sense to purchase a special manual in a bookstore. It can also be found online in the form of a presentation. This literature is aimed at educating parents.

How teaching should be done

Despite the lack of a single methodology for teaching reading, there are rules that will help parents learn to read for preschoolers.

Important! Each parent can independently determine the algorithm by which he will introduce his child to literature. The main thing to remember is that the entire responsibility for the educational process lies with the teacher, in this case, the parent.

Those who doubt their own abilities can seek the help of a specialist. The modern service market offers a huge number of teachers who are ready to teach a child to read at least at five, at least at six or seven years.

It is better for parents to take care of a child

But will it be interesting for a child to engage in an unfamiliar business with a stranger? Most likely no. Therefore, adults should carefully consider everything and honestly answer the question, do they want to take away the carefree time of childish pranks from their child and spend it studying?

Reading simulators

It is customary to start learning to read from books where words are accompanied by pictures. However, it is often easier for children to read the first letter and, by comparing it with the picture, guess the word. To avoid this, it is proposed to use a card index with words. nine0003

First, the child is given cards with three-letter words: house, cat, garden….. When he has learned to read such words freely, you can move on to cards with four-letter words. Next - words, where three, four syllables.

Important! Such a simulator assumes the absence of a word-picture-object association, so you cannot focus only on classes with it. But the practice of "only words" is sometimes helpful.

Another good reading simulator for preschoolers that develops the child's ability to think logically and increases the speed of reading - anagrams. It is worth offering to make a word out of a set of letters, and help the kid understand the essence of the game, and it will definitely drag him out. For clarity, the letters can be printed on a sheet of paper and cut out. For example, from "yarub" the child will have to collect the word "storm". nine0003

An example of a simulator with cards

Useful exercises

An interesting exercise that helps develop a child's interest in reading and quickly consolidate the already mastered skill - "half a word". It is necessary to close the words in the sentence exactly halfway with a ruler, and invite the child to read them.

You can also print simple words on the cards, cut the papers in half, and invite the child to collect the words piece by piece. Such an interesting task will cause excitement in the kid. And the presence of passion implies the presence of interest, which is one of the key factors in the process of teaching preschoolers to read. nine0003

Reading by syllables

At the initial stages of teaching preschool children to read, the most important moment is reading by syllables. This is what will become the basis for reading words in the future.

When the preschooler has finished learning the letters, the usual alphabet can be replaced with the “alphabet with syllables”. It will help the child to visualize the sounds and syllables from which these sounds are obtained. It also assumes the existence of rules on some syllables (there is no combination “chya” - it is replaced by “write thicker with the letter a”). nine0003

Important! It is better to start teaching your baby to read with repeated syllables. For example, ma-ma, pa-pa, uncle-dya and others. This exercise will help the child comprehend the connection of syllables and words.

How often should you study with a child

The key to success in mastering any skill lies in regularity. The more regular the classes, the better. But it is not in vain that they say that repetition is the mother of learning. So do not forget about the importance of repeating the previously studied material.

Most of the manuals offer 15-20 minutes of lessons with children of primary preschool age daily, but this scenario is not suitable for everyone. nine0003

Some children find reading difficult, both in the process and in general. We must not forget that every child is an individual with their own tastes, preferences, hobbies. A child may not like reading, and this is not scary.

In order for the child to like classes, he needs to be interested

In cases where the child finds it difficult to study, it is too early to give up. It makes sense to take breaks between classes in 1-2 days.

Important! Also, parents should remember that in the preparatory groups of the preschool educational institution, educators also work with children. You should not overload the child when he did a good job in kindergarten, otherwise he will quickly get bored. nine0003

Books for independent reading at 6-7 years old

Independent reading for children involves the selection of the correct literature. After all, the key factor in the question of a preschooler's interest in a particular book will be its content.

Unfortunately, the modern market is full of books with interesting content, but an absolutely perverted concept of morality. The first literary experience of a child should be not only entertaining, but also useful. After all, as mentioned earlier, books form not only the mental skills of a person, but also engage in his spiritual education. nine0003

In order not to make a mistake with the choice of a book, then a list of suitable literature for self-reading of children of primary preschool age will be compiled.

Family reading classes

The Little Humpbacked Horse (Peter Ershov).
Scarlet Flower (Sergey Aksakov).
Silver Hoof (Pavel Bazhov).
Pushkin's Tales ("The Tale of the Golden Cockerel", "The Tale of the Orybak and the Fish").
The Wizard of the Emerald City (Alexander Volkov). nine0144
"Old Man Hottabych" (L. Lagin).
"Three fat men" (Yu. Olesha).
"The Adventures of Pinocchio" (A. Tolstoy).
"Deniska's stories" (V. Dragunsky).
The Little Prince (A. Saint-Exupery).
"Mowgli" (R. Kipling).
"Winnie the Pooh and all-all-all" (A. Milne).

In conclusion, it is worth noting that it is important, but not necessary, to teach a child to read at preschool age. The right approach to classes and the right choice of literature for joint or independent reading will be the key to success. And all parents should remember that the baby will love them equally, regardless of the age at which they taught him to read. nine0003

How easy it is to teach a child 4-6 years old to read - the best methods and exercises there is no ready-made answer, but we want to immediately warn against two misconceptions:

“It is not necessary to teach a child to read at home, they will teach you at school anyway. ” Yes, they will. But remember: the first year at school is the most intense in all 11 years of study. For some 4-5 months in the 1st grade, the child goes through the alphabet "from" and "to", learns to read, write, and the rest of the time he studies the basics of the Russian language. Therefore, it will be great if he has a reading skill before school. This will reduce the burden on the child. nine0003
"There is no time to waste - the sooner the baby begins to read, the better." All children are different and develop at their own pace. Therefore, you should not impose teaching reading to a preschooler as soon as he is 4-5 years old, if the student himself does not yet show interest in this activity. Instead, you can begin to develop an interest in reading through bright and engaging books. A good option would also be games that involve letters.

The indicator to be guided by is not the age of the preschooler, but his speech skills. nine0003

It's time to learn to read if…

If the speech development of a preschooler proceeds without gross violations. Let's figure out what criteria will help you find out if a child is ready to learn to read:

Understanding addressed speech. The kid must understand sentences, phrases, individual words that others refer to him.
Vocabulary. The more words a child knows, the better he will understand what he read. It will also help him communicate with adults and other children. nine0003
Grammar. The ability to correctly build sentences, select and change words is important for children who are learning to read.
Pronunciation. For learning to be effective, the child must know how to pronounce words without gross errors.

Remember: at preschool age, a child may have minor flaws in grammar and pronunciation - this is normal. Over time, these violations will be corrected, and they should not be considered an obstacle to reading. But if the baby is not yet very confident in speaking, do not rush him to read - this will not help develop speech, but only demotivate. nine0003

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How to make learning to read easier for preschoolers

Praise more and never scold

It's hard for us adults to imagine how difficult it really is for a baby to learn from scratch such a complex skill as reading. After all, being able to read means being able to correlate a sound with a letter or a combination of letters, connect sounds, understand the meanings of the words read and the meaning behind the text. nine0003
If parents take the child's progress for granted and express dissatisfaction when the child does not understand something, this will not push the future student to development, but will only complicate the process. Therefore, it is important to praise for small victories: I learned the letter that was passed last time - great, I coped without my father's help with the word as much as two syllables - clever.

Do not take failures as a result of the negligence of the little student. When a child does not understand the first time, this is an occasion to look for another explanation or give more time to practice. If you feel tired and irritated, you should stop the activity and return to it in a good mood. nine0003
Exercise little but regularly

Do not expect perseverance and desire from the baby to spend hours figuring out unfamiliar letters. It is difficult for preschoolers to keep their attention in a lesson for more than 25 minutes, and even such small classes should be interrupted with physical education minutes and games so that the child does not get bored. This is exactly how Skysmart prepares for school: 25-minute classes with breaks for outdoor games.

But regular practice is important - much more important than the duration of the session. And it doesn’t have to be just lessons: you can look for familiar letters on signs during a walk, on a door plate in a children’s clinic, on a package of your favorite corn flakes. nine0003
Read books aloud

In a series of studies conducted by Dr. Victoria Purcell-Gates among five-year-olds who could not yet read, children to whom their parents regularly read aloud for two years were found to express thoughts in more literary language, build longer phrases and use more complex syntax.

In addition, reading aloud with adults contributed to the expansion of the children's vocabulary, as parents explained the meanings of new words that children did not encounter in everyday life. nine0003

Expert Opinion

According to neuroscientist Marianne Wolfe, book evenings with parents help develop a love of reading because the child establishes a connection between reading aloud and feelings of love and warmth.

Discuss read

The role of communication in teaching literacy cannot be overestimated. At first, it is important to ask if the future student is interested, if he is tired, what was remembered from the lesson. When a preschooler learns to read coherent texts, be sure to ask questions about their content. nine0003
It's great if the child reads on his own and without the prompting of the parents, but even in this case, do not deprive him of the opportunity to discuss what he read with you. For example, you can ask:
- Which of the characters do you like?
- Do you think this character is like you? Would you like to be like her?
- What would you do if you were a hero?
- Why did the described event happen? How are these two events related? nine0003
- How did what you read make you feel?
- What do you remember most from what you read?
- What do you think the author wanted to teach? Why did he write this? Do you agree with the author?

It is important to select questions individually, based on the age of the child. With younger children, discuss everything together, ask simple questions, direct their attention to some facts. The complexity of the questions should increase in proportion to the age of the child. The older he is, the more difficult the tasks should be, and the questions can already affect the "reflection" of their feelings and experiences. nine0003

Go from simple to complex

From the correspondence between sounds and letters to syllables, from short words to longer and more complex words. It would seem that this is obvious, but no: sometimes parents are so happy with the success of the child at first that they push him to study more complex topics than he is ready to accept. Of course, the program should adapt to the future student, but you should not skip steps, even if the child is making progress.
nine0178 There are methods that offer to teach a child to read by memorizing whole words. Alas, experiments show that such techniques generally work worse. For example, a group of scientists from the United States came up with an artificial alphabet and offered subjects to learn it, and then read the words written using this alphabet. At the same time, some subjects were immediately explained the principles of correspondence between sounds and letters, while others had to derive reading rules on their own based on whole words. It turned out that the first group copes with reading new, previously unfamiliar words better than the second. nine0003
Therefore, we advise choosing teaching methods that provide clear instructions about the relationship between sound and letter - and this is especially important for those children who have difficulty reading. Below we have compiled a few of these techniques that you can use to teach your preschooler at home.

Methods of teaching preschoolers to read

Warehouse reading

The way to teach a child to read through warehouses was actually used in Rus', but for modern parents this technique is associated with the name of the philologist Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaitsev. nine0003

Zaitsev suggests not focusing on the study of individual letters, as it can be difficult for students to understand how letters can merge into syllables and words. Teaching a child to read by syllables is also not always easy: one syllable can be quite long ( glitter, ruble ), and the boundaries of syllables are not obvious ( Lun-tik or Lu-ntik ?). Therefore, in Zaitsev's methodology, a warehouse is used as the main unit.

Warehouse can be a combination of a consonant and a vowel (pa-pa, ma-ma), a single consonant or vowel (de- d , i-s -li, A -le-sha), as well as a combination of a consonant with a hard or soft sign (ma- l -chi-k, use d -yem).

In order for a preschooler to understand the differences between the recording of voiced and soft, vowel and consonant sounds, different types of warehouses have their own cube size, color and content, thanks to which the cubes sound when they are shaken. Cubes affect several channels of perception at once, and warehouses should not just be pronounced, but sung - this way, according to the author of the methodology, learning is more interesting and effective. nine0003

One of the advantages of the technique is that children willingly play with blocks themselves, and the process of learning to read becomes active, mobile.

Syllabic reading

This technique, according to some sources, was developed by the Romans. Later, Nadezhda Sergeevna Zhukova, a Soviet and Russian speech therapist, created a primer based on it. In it, she built her own system in which sounds and letters are sequentially introduced into speech.

Due to the fact that the concept of a syllable is introduced at an early stage, it is faster and easier to teach a child to read syllables together. By the way, as in Zaitsev's technique, it is proposed to sing syllables, and not just pronounce them. nine0003

Based on the syllabic method, Zhukova developed a set of teaching aids - copybooks, copybooks and a book for reading. Benefits will help teach children to read correctly 6 and 7 years old at home.

Both techniques for teaching preschoolers to read are used in the Skysmart Ready for School course. The course consists of two stages: first, children get acquainted with letters and warehouses, which allows them to quickly start reading simple words, and then they learn what a syllable is. Gradually, we introduce more complex syllabic constructions, move on to reading phrases and sentences. nine0003

Sound analytical-synthetic teaching method

This method originated in the USSR and is still considered the main one in Russian schools and kindergartens. It was developed by the Soviet teacher and Russian language methodologist Voskresenskaya Alexandra Ilyinichna.

Like N.S. Zhukova, Voskresenskaya proposed her own order in which children should learn letters and sounds. The principle of this sequence was that the child first learned the letters that can be combined into simple syllables, and then moved forward in the level of complexity. As a result, children learn syllables in this order:

Two-letter syllables (including one consonant): am, ma, ra, etc. and simple words from them: ra-ma, ma-sha, Pa-sha, etc.
Three-letter syllables with a central vowel: poppy, lat, etc.
The combination of the first two stages into words: sa-lat, earth-la, etc.
Words of three syllables and six letters: az-bu-ka, ve-se-lo, etc.
Words of two syllables and six letters: question-ros, tea-nick, etc.

Words with a combination of vowels at the beginning and at the end of the word: chair, March, etc.

In this way, children simultaneously prepare for more complex syllables at each stage and reinforce what they have learned earlier.

Exercises for learning to read

Learning to read usually takes place in several stages. First, the child listens to the sound, visually remembers the letters. Different games will help with this, where you need to look for letters, invent words, etc. When this stage is over, you can move on to syllables and games to work them out. And only after that it will be possible to proceed to words, and then to sentences and texts. nine0003

Letter memory exercises

The first step is to teach your child to recognize letters. To do this, you can use pictures with hidden letters. We use such exercises in the preparation for school lessons in Skysmart.

Ask your child to identify what letter a word begins with, or name as many words as possible that begin with a certain letter.

Next, we train to distinguish correctly written letters from incorrect ones. This is also important for learning to write: preschoolers often mirror letters or distort individual elements. nine0003

Exercises for vowels and consonants

Learning to distinguish between vowels and consonants will help tasks in which you need to determine what sound a word begins with.

It will also help to remember the difference between vowels and consonants and search for an extra letter.

Word Building Exercises

When your child can read short words, ask him to make a word out of letters on his own.

Composing words from syllables is convenient if you have cubes at hand, but you can also try on paper.

Another good exercise is to fill in the missing letter in the word.