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A fun rhyming book for young children and a perfect early reader. Bookbot provides a series of decodable readers for children learning to read. See more of BookBots books at www.bookbotkids.com/phonics-books. or here on Free Kids Books below:
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Turtle Dove a lovely story about what a turtle dove can and cannot do. This simple early reader features a series of phrases with simple verbs and nouns related to a turtle dove’s activities. This book is rated as an English Level 1 story, suited for young early readers who want to learn how to …
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The BIG Red Balloon Have you seen the BIG red balloon? Oh NO! Where could it be? Where is the beautiful big red balloon? This book is perfect for young readers and beginner English learners to improve their vocabulary and learn new words. The book provides a rhyming repetition of sentences then adds a new …
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¿Cuáles son los colores? is the spanish version of 7 Colours Of A Rainbow. In this picture book young children will learn the different colours of the rainbow and where these colours could be seen in everyday life. Perfect for young children to learn new words and name and identify colours. This is a Spanish Level …
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I Like to Read – A short story about a boy who wants to read a book to someone but everyone is busy and unavailable, will he ever find a way to read? This is an English Level 1 Book brought to us by Story Weaver Pratham Books. I Like to Read is perfect for …
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Bo Go Up is one in a series of a single letter, three letter, and, two letter stories from Bo Books. If you were learning to read a new language, you’d start with short words. When we teach children to read, we should do the same.
Bo Books teaches children to read using short words …
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In the My Name is in the Story series, Clark Ness is back with these entertaining personalised early readers which can be – or ARE adapted to the child’s name! This collection is boys personalised stories, with the male pronoun, see also his collection for girls. Children love stories about themselves and they will enjoy …
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In the My Name Is In This Story Stories and eBooks series, Clark Ness is back with these entertaining early readers which can be – or ARE adapted to a child’s first name! Children love stories about themselves and they will enjoy reading these girls personalised stories and ebooks. Every collection featured (64 stories and 6 ebooks in total!) …
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Clark Ness has an amazingly large set of learning to read books available. His site includes literally thousands of easy readers, phonics based readers, sight word books, and much, much more.
This set here is just a sample of some of his work using the open dyslexic font. The set in this post contains the …
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ABC’s of Biodiversity is a truly amazing alphabet. With 260 images – 10 for each letter, each with a high quality photograph, but the amazing thing is what is featured for each letter. Older children learning to read will have fun both learning to sound out words that are unlikely to be familiar to most …
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➤7 Apps for Kids Learning to Read that are Actually Free!
These apps for kids learning to read are actually free. That’s right! Parents and educators can now find quality apps that help teach kids to read for free!
I love to use educational apps with my kids. They are a great way to supplement hands-on activities and play based learning opportunities.
They are especially useful when we have long waits at restaurants or appointments.
I also include them in our homeschool lesson plans. My son loves the change of pace and actually learns a lot when using the apps.
Sometimes, the cost of apps can add up though. That’s why I am so happy about Amazon Underground!
You can now get access to premium apps & games that provide fun, education, and convenience. The Amazon Underground catalog of 100% free apps & games is part of the Amazon Appstore and gives you access to awesome content that you would normally have to pay for in “other” App and Play Store’s, but now at zero cost.
When I heard about this I was tiny bit skeptical about what apps would be available and if they would be full of ads, but I can assure you that there are some fantastic, quality apps and they are actually free. No ads or constant prompts for paid upgrades.
You should definitely head over to the Amazon Appstore and check the Amazon Underground catalog for lots of fun, educational games and interactive books for young kids, but I also did a bit of the legwork for you and searched through TONS of apps to find you the 10 best apps for kids learning to read.
Super Why: ABC Adventures
This is a great place to start with kids who are just learning letters and letter sounds. It’s also a great review for kids who know most letter sounds, but need some extra practice.
Kids ABC Letters
This is another great game for kids who are learning to identify letters and letter sounds. The games are really engaging!
Kids ABC Phonics
This app is jam-packed with games for kids who are learning to read! From letters to beginning sounds to words and rhyming and ending sounds, this app has it all.
Kids Learn to Read
This app has a bunch of activities that kids will find engaging and fun. Kids will work on blending sounds together and doing various word work activities.
Kids Sight Words
My son loves these sight word games! They make learning sight words so much fun.
Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Games
This game has both literacy and math lessons, but the literacy lessons are so good that I had to include it.
Plus, it can be used with kids 3-5 and each game is leveled by age. Both of my kids use this one!
Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Games Extra
This app includes a few extra games to build up on the app above.
To find the apps, just search the names above on Amazon Underground.
My son loved all of these! They provided him with lots of extra practice and he really enjoyed it too. That’s a win-win!
Totally Free Educational Apps for Kids
There are so many more fantastic educational apps available on Amazon Underground! I am looking forward to trying some of the alphabet and preschool learning games with my 3 year old too. I’ve already installed a bunch on my phone.
Leave a comment letting me know about any awesome apps you found. I am always looking for more!
I was selected for this opportunity as a member of CLEVER and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.
How to teach to read in English: tips, pdf-cards
For native Russian speakers, reading comes down to letter recognition.
The English are not so lucky, and with them, and everyone who learns English as a foreign language. It is sometimes difficult even for the inhabitants of Foggy Albion to write and read competently in their native language. In this article, we will analyze the complexity of learning to read in English and give practical advice on how to teach this to children and adults.
Contents:
- The essence of the problem
- Syllabic reading
- Vocabulary reading
1. The essence of the problem
Thanks to the reform of Peter the Great, complex “beeches”, “lead”, “verb” and others, and the letters “ a", "be", "ve". Learning to read has become easier: the letter began to denote the sound that is in its name. There was no Peter I in English history, therefore in modern English there are more than forty phonemes and only 26 letters.
Obviously, there are not enough letters to convey all the variety of sounds in the English language.
Moreover, historically it so happened that some sounds do not have their own letter - for example, [ ʃ ] and [ tʃ ]. Conversely, other sounds can be indicated by several letters ([ k ] - c at, k ite, q ueen, [ f ] - f an, ph one).
How can an English teacher solve a problem? Learning to read will be successful if you combine two approaches at the same time: syllabic and vocabulary reading.
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2. Syllabic reading
This approach is similar to learning to read and write in Russian.
Step one
The student memorizes only one sound, which stands for each letter (the phonemic principle of learning to read). Phonetic songs will help in learning:
Second step
We learn the rules of reading, that is, we read by syllables.
1) Get acquainted with some simple digraphs denoting vowel sounds (house, mouse).
2) Learning combinations with the letter -h-: -sh- (fish), -ch- (chips), -th- (three/this).
To introduce students to the reading rule -sh , I usually ask them to write in English a few simple words that are familiar to the ear: pink, dog, lemon, green, red, desk, book, pen, etc.
After that, please write the word fish.
Then we bring the student to the conclusion that in English there is no letter for the sound [ ʃ ], and ask the question: how did the British solve this problem? After the student has tried to come up with an answer (it is important that he tried it!), we come to the conclusion that if there is no letter, such a sound can be written with a combination of other known letters.
In English, to record the sound [ ʃ ] use the letters - sh
Such an inductive way of getting acquainted with the reading rule through a problem situation is much more effective , than the “out of the box” rule (deductive way).
3) When the student has already mastered the rules for reading some letter combinations, we introduce the rules for reading vowels in an open syllable ( I type of reading ).
Option 1. We use the analogy with the Russian language
Option 2. We tell a fairy tale about the “magic” E (cow), -ea- (peach, meat, sea).
5) enter the reading rules with the letter w: -wh (what, when), -wa / wha
6) we introduce the rules for reading vowels before -r (III type of reading):
A a - [a:], car, star
E e - [ɜ:], her
I i - [ɜ:], bird, girl
U u - [ɜ:], purple
O o — [ɔ:], fork, horse
Further, the sequence of studying the reading rules depends on the topics of the lessons.
So, when getting acquainted with the topic “Clothes”, we remember or repeat the phonetic equivalent of the digraphs –ou (blouse, trousers), -ir (skirt, T-shirt). Studying pets or school supplies, learn about readings of the letter Cc (-e, i, y + c = pencil, mice).
Fairy tales and images will help to learn reading rules with preschoolers and younger students:
Cards for memorizing reading rules3. Vocabulary reading
There are many reading rules in English, most of which are difficult to remember. In order not to overload students at the beginning of their acquaintance with a foreign language, in this way we learn the literal images of new words, “like pictures”.
Based on vocabulary reading, we also learn numbers up to 10. Explain word reading one, two is extremely difficult - it's more efficient to just remember them.
Interrogative words, first of all What and How , are memorized in images.
So we teach children not only to use the rules of reading, but also to memorize the literal image of the word. It is important to explain to parents the principle of vocabulary reading and the reason why teachers are forced to use it.
By the way, you can download our useful cards for free.
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How to help students remember the alphabet of a word
Memory and thinking are closely related to fine motor skills, so the easiest way to memorize new words is to write them down. It is important to write with your hand, and not to type text on the keyboard. What else can be used:
- Games for the development of memory, and above all the game "Memory" (you need to match a card with a picture with a card-pair with the corresponding word).
- Games like "Anagram" (where the letters of the word are mixed up and they need to be arranged in order), "Gallows" (where the student has to guess the word by naming one letter after a certain number of attempts).
nine0010 - Reading cards. I use flashcards by type of reading and by topic.
Consistent introduction to letters and reading rules in combination with vocabulary reading will allow students to learn to read in English without much difficulty.
Read online “Learning to read in English. A book for children and parents”, Evgeniya Shuldyakova – LitRes
© Evgeniya Shuldyakova, 2021
ISBN 978-5-4483-0154-4
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Worried about how your child will learn English at school? Maybe you have already encountered difficulties? Want to help but don't know how? Then this book is for you and your child! I wrote it for my students, answering their difficulties, helping them overcome them cheerfully, but still working hard. This is not a textbook, but rather a fun assistant and simulator of reading skills. Russian letter hints will help you navigate at first. But, I assure you, by the end of the book you will not need them, and the child will not have to write out an English textbook, trying to convey in Russian letters what is written in it.
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How to get the best results
Of course, you can just read a book with your child or even give and forget. But if you really want to achieve quick success, prepare two thin notebooks - for a dictionary and for practicing writing and translation skills. Write out all new words in a dictionary and write letters and words in a workbook. In it, translate sentences and texts. First, translate everything orally together with the child, then give him the task of writing the translation himself. Do not forget to praise your students for every success, and do not scold for failures, your support is the key to success. Do not rush, master the book at a pace convenient for the child. You can do it all, after all, there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. nine0003
Alphabet
Begin each session with the alphabet. It is best to sing it, but you can also just read it.
First letters
The English alphabet begins with the letters hey, bi, si - Aa, Bb, Cc.
From them you can make the word cab - cab. It used to be called horse-drawn carts, but now London taxis are called that.
The letter bi - b - sounds [b] (similar to the Russian sound "b").
Letter hey - a - [æ] (we open our mouth wide as for "a", but pronounce "e"). nine0003
The letter si - from - sounds [k] (not always, but for now we will remember this reading).
The letter "C" was once long ago
It was called the letter "KETA"
And therefore, guys,
[k] sounds, remember this
Now, before the word "cab" we put another letter "a" - a cab. "a" is a short word - a label, an article, it shows that the word "cab" is a singular noun, that is, a word that answers the question WHO? WHAT? and this item is ONE. If you read very slowly, you get “hey cab”, but this is almost never pronounced, the word “a” is very short and is pronounced without stress, it is an unstressed neutral sound [ə], similar to the unstressed vowel in the Russian word В O YES.
The symbols in square brackets are called transcription or transcription marks. They, unlike letters, always read the same way and help us to read unfamiliar words correctly. The signs of consonants almost always coincide with the capital letters that convey this sound, they are always written in square or slash brackets and never connected to each other. The accent sign "`" in English transcription is placed before the stressed syllable, this is how the transcription of the word "taxi" is written - a cab - [ə`kæb]
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We will write new words in the dictionary. To do this, you can take a ready-made notebook “for writing foreign words”, or you can line a regular notebook or notebook in three columns per page, like this:
letter “a:” - R
Now let’s learn the English letter “a: - Rr - although it is called like our vowel, by the way, the colon shows that the sound is "long", that is, it must be pronounced drawlingly, but this letter often conveys the English sound [r] - a soft, unrolling "r".
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The letter “ (а:) Rr” growls like a dog,
He has a ring tail.
Make a tongue with a ring,
Like a mongrel's tail,
And you can boldly growl
How an English dog growls: [r-r].
And now let's become magicians and turn a taxi into a crab. Do you remember what the London taxi is called in English? - a cab. A crab in English is a crab. Guessed where to insert the letter to turn a taxi into a crab? Write the new word in your dictionary. nine0003
And don't forget to write down the letters and words we learned in your notebook.
a cab
a crab
the letter "ti" - T
Another letter of the English alphabet - the letter "ti" - Tt. To correctly pronounce the English sound [t] - put the tip of the tongue not to the teeth, but higher, there are tubercles behind the teeth - alveoli, tap on them: [t-t-t].
Here is the big letter " (ti) T",
Like our " (te) T, look!
" (ti) t" baby with mother's height,
It is written quite simply:
Post and hook at the bottom,
Crossed barrel.
“Close” the vowel “ (hey) a” with the consonant “ (ti) t”, we get the syllable “at” - [æt], write it down and read:
And now we turn into magicians and by adding the letters we've already learned to "at" we'll create a bat, a cat, and a rat. Write these words in your notebook and write them down in your dictionary. nine0003
a bat
a rat
a cat
Let's learn the letters "en" - N and "ou" - O
Here are their names with transcription signs: [en], [əʊ].
Write them down:
The letter " (en) Nn" and the letter " (ou) Oo"
The word "No" will be together
"No" in English - "no",
Negative answer.
If you want to say “not”,
Need “ (ti) t" to call for help.
Someone looked into the book,
Turned over the paper itself:
Not a cat - "not a cat"
Not a rat - "not a rat"
A small and strong ant - "an ant".
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