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Preschool kids are naturally curious, energetic little beings, and the best way to keep them engaged is by channeling that ball of energy into some profitable venture; e.g. completing the tasks in these preschool reading worksheets. The exercises are designed with preschoolers’ curriculum in mind. Children will read the short passages to answer the basic questions, and find familiar words in other exercises. Encourage your children to say the words aloud, and help them with words they struggle with in our reading worksheets for preschoolers.
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Find the Setting Worksheet
There are many things that go into writing a good story. The writer must first …
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Where Does It Happen? Worksheet
When we describe things that have happened or are happening, we often need to give …
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When Does It Happen? Worksheet
Can your kids tell you the different times of day and what each one means. …
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Towns Worksheet
Towns are idyllic, less busy places where many young families like to live for the …
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Nonfiction Features Worksheet
Works of fiction mean that all characters and the events that take place have been …
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Nonfiction Captions Worksheet
Captions are great for helping your students learn to read, because they let them understand …
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Rhyming Words in Poems Worksheet
Poems are interesting to read, and readers often get a vivid picture which the poet …
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Identifying Poems Worksheet
Helping your kids learn to read properly involves a lot of things, and one of …
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Finish Rhyming Poem Worksheet
Poems are very exciting literary works.
With poems, we can express emotions and also paint …
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Picture in Books Worksheet
Picture books are most likely your students’ favorite type of books to read. This is …
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Picture Books Worksheet
Picture books are pretty exciting to read. With picture books, your little students don’t just …
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Draw a Line to the Picture Books Worksheet
Picture books are pretty exciting to read. With picture books, your little students don’t just …
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Find the Title Worksheet
This worksheet has pictures of books; some of which your kids might already be familiar …
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Red and Green Worksheet
As your kids go higher in school and also learn new things, it is important …
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Sight Word You Worksheet
You is one of the most commonly used words for beginning readers, and it's important …
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Find and Read: Like Worksheet
Sight word reading is how great readers begin their reading journey.
Building their sight word …
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Sight Words I Can Worksheet
When we put words together, we're communicating! Reading words that are put together is a …
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Sight Word I Worksheet
Believe it or not, recognizing the sight word 'I' is tougher than you think! When …
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Sight Word Can Worksheet
Learning sight words is an important part of being a strong reader, and children who …
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Words: Assessment 1 Worksheet
Prefixes are important word parts that are added to roots to give those words enhanced …
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Vocabulary: Assessment 6 Worksheet
Every kid knows the old story about the tortoise and the hare, but our turtle …
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Vocabulary: Assessment 5 Worksheet
Preschool and kindergarten can be tough for kids since they prepare to read while learning …
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Vocabulary: Assessment 4 Worksheet
Complete this free downloadable vocabulary worksheet to blast into outer space with our charming astronauts! …
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Vocabulary: Assessment 3 Worksheet
Our chef needs your child’s help! Read and match each word to its corresponding picture …
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Reading Comprehension Strategies for Preschool Students
Reading comprehension – understanding and interpreting what is read – is one of the most important skills for students of all ages. Even when preschoolers are not yet able to read, they love to be read TO. A wise teacher uses before, during, and after reading a story as teaching time. Here are eight strategies for developing budding reading comprehension skills in even the youngest learners.
Before Reading
The goals of using a comprehension strategy with students before reading a story are to help them focus their attention, to activate their prior knowledge, and get them excited to read it! It is tough for students to transition to storytime, sit down, and just start reading.
Teachers must “prep” them a little bit to be good listeners. There are lots of ways to accomplish this. Here are 3 strategies that work well:
Purposes of Before Reading strategies
- Activate student’s prior knowledge
- Set the stage for reading
- Get the children excited about the book!
Book Talk Ideas
- Give the children a “teaser” about what is to come
- Introduce the characters and explain the problem
- Invite the children to make a prediction
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems is a perfect story for engaging students during a book talk. Young children find the main character, Trixie, very relatable and can empathize with the angst that she feels when her beloved stuffed toy is misplaced. The teacher can draw students in further by bringing a favorite stuffed toy or classroom mascot to the carpet, or even bring one of their own toys from their childhood.
Discuss how the toy goes everywhere, it sleeps in the bed with the owner and is very important to that person. Then, ask the students if anyone has a special stuffed animal or blanket. Ask the students to imagine, “How would you feel if your special toy got lost?” After sharing their ideas, read about what happens to Trixie. (And for students that have lost their special items, try LostMyLovey.com to search for replacements or even the item itself!)
Book in a Bag Ideas
- Put together a few small props or pictures that represent the story
- Pull them out one at a time and invite the children to make a prediction about the story
Preschoolers (and many older students!) are visual learners. When the teacher sits down to read a story with a mysterious bag full of objects, it is guaranteed to grab their attention! Fill a gift bag with items and pictures from the story and pull them out one at a time.
As each item is revealed, encourage the students to make a prediction about the story. What is it going to be about? Here is an example for a bag of objects for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!
Key Word Ideas
- Choose 1 important word from the story
- Discuss the meaning of the word
- Have students give examples of the word
- Encourage children to make predictions
Introducing a “Key Word” is another way to get students thinking about the story before reading it. For example, in The Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown, ask students if anyone knows what swap means. Discuss how “swap” means to trade. Next, invite them to talk about things they like to swap. Then, tell them that in The Scarecrow’s Hat, Chicken wants to swap something with Scarecrow. Encourage students to make predictions about what they might swap. Finally, read the story together.
During Reading
There are three strategies that teachers can use during reading. While reading aloud to children, the most important thing is the enjoyment of the book, of course. Young children benefit from being active listeners. They need to listen with their voices and their bodies in order to comprehend! Teachers can involve them by doing the following:
Reading Comprehension Strategy #4 – Incorporate MovementIncorporating Movement Ideas
- Have students use props from the story
- Have students use their bodies to mimic motions in the story
- Use simple musical instruments, such as shaker eggs, at key phrases
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything is an all-around fantastic book for fall. It is a good example of how to incorporate movement while reading a book to young children. The Little Old Lady in the story meets 2 big shoes on the path to her cottage, and the shoes go, “Clomp! Clomp!” It is so much fun for the children to “clomp” their own shoes.
They also love it when they are provided props to go with the story– shoes, pants, a shirt, gloves, a hat, and a pumpkin head. As the teacher reads, they take turns moving the props to match the story. So much fun and the students are completely engaged!
The reading jargon for repeating a refrain or line in a book is “Choral Reading.” It’s a term that means the children all join in reading the repeated lines in unison. The Pete the Cat books are perfect examples of this strategy. In Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes, the repeated line is, “I love my white shoes. I love my white shoes! I love my white shoes, etc.” It’s so catchy that the students will have a hard time not joining in!
Just a quick note: Be sure that you get the free audio downloads to go along with your Pete the Cat books. They’re just not the same without the audio!
Reading Comprehension Strategy #6 – Sequencing
Sequencing Ideas
- Use pictures of story events
- Have students place pictures in a pocket chart as they happen
A final “During Reading” strategy perfect for preschoolers is Sequencing.
Thinking ahead to elementary school, we know that students will have to retell stories with a beginning, middle, and end. They will have to recount events of a book in order. Preschool teachers can prepare them for this essential elementary skill by giving students practice putting events in order. One way to do this is to print pictures from the story and give them to students before reading. They can then place the pictures on a felt board, pocket chart, or easel in order as the story progresses.
After Reading
We know that in order for children to understand a story well, they have to start thinking about it before reading. They might look at the pictures and make a prediction. Then, while we read, we can involve the children by encouraging them to move and read with us. Now that the book is finished, there are other things we can do to reinforce the story and extend the students’ understanding.
After Reading Comprehension Goals
- Reflect on the story
- Make Connections
- Revisit the story
Lots of stories lend themselves to “Acting it Out.
” After reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff, for example, students can play “billy goats” by using a low balance beam to make a bridge and take turns TRIP-TRAPPING across it. Adding goats to the block center encourages students who want to build a bridge there. Simple costumes, such as themed hats made from paper for “The Little Red Hen” at the dramatic play center, ensure the story’s reenactments. Puppets and other toys that mimic the main characters in other centers and access to the story itself make this a simple way for students to tell and retell the story.
Reading Comprehension Strategy #8 – Compare Similar Stories
Another important elementary school comprehension skill is “Making Connections.” Students can make a connection in one of three ways:
- TEXT to SELF – Does this book remind you of something that happened to you?
- TEXT to TEXT – Does this book remind you of another book?
- TEXT to WORLD – Does this book remind you of something you know about in the world (another place, a movie, a person you know, etc.
)?
When reading a story to young children, teachers can encourage them to compare the story to something else that they know about. After reading Corduroy, students might tell about their favorite stuffed animal. They can compare Lisa’s love of Corduroy to their own (Text to Self). It also might remind them about the Knuffle Bunny story mentioned earlier (Text to Text). They might even remember that Corduroy was purchased in a department store, much like one they saw in an ad on TV (Text to World).
The most important thing for the students is that they gain a love of reading first. These skills take it to the next level, providing more enjoyment and understanding, valuable skills for when they move to grade school and beyond.
An Important Note:
While using reading strategies with children, it is important to keep their attention spans in mind. It is crucial to remember these strategies should not all be employed on the same day, or even on the same story.
Never use more than one strategy from each section with each book, and try to make it quick! The goal is to get students thinking about the book, but most of the time and effort should be the act of reading and enjoying the story.
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NAEYC has loads of articles about reading with young children right here.
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How school theater programs help students "perform" better both in and out of the classroom
It may be true that school plays have been the traditional home of expressive and outgoing students. But drama classes can help every student improve their intellectual skills, both on and off the stage.
Research shows that performing arts benefits all students in a wide variety of academic and social areas, from test scores to resilience to stress. nine0004 Statistics
Consider these statistics from the American Alliance for Theater and Education:
● Theater students outperformed non-art students on the 2005 SAT by an average of 65 points in the verbal component and 34 points in the math component.
● Dramatic activity improves reading comprehension and verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
In fact, theater arts students — especially those working in a second language, as is common at international schools — grow their experiences on the stage to incorporate life-lessons that extend well past the classroom. According to a report by Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL), drama teaches students “responsibility, problem solving, management and directing proficiencies. These are tools that can be used in all aspects of their lives.
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To this end, visionary schools offer theater programs throughout a child's career.
Dramatic art, although often quirky, must be taken seriously as an essential tool for development in a student's academic life American International School - Vienna Principal Steve Razidlo
How can drama be incorporated into the classroom?
At AIS Vienna, drama and conversational arts are already included in the educational process at preschool age. Primary school students are offered extra-curricular activities that include a range of creative drama activities. Beginning in third grade, students receive more formal stage performance opportunities, including "Elementary Play" featuring dozens of young artists, rehearsed in the spring and presented at the end of the school year. nine0011
At AIS High School, the program is expanding to include two fully realized large ensemble productions per year. In high school, the program includes an intensive drama class and three hierarchical theater classes, each of which builds on the previous year's lessons and performances.
Outside of the classroom, the school club "AIS Players" presents two works annually. Recent productions include the acclaimed musical In the Woods and Killed by Death, reviewed by playwright Peter Gordon himself: "The overall level of performance, costumes and set design was superb. Well done ... to everyone involved." High school theater figures round out the theater arts calendar with an evening of AIS Presents featuring original student productions. nine0011
As a learning tool, drama is an opportunity to cross-pollinate key learning experiences such as speech and performance. Theater is a tool for communication. It becomes like a language that transcends boundaries, both cultural and educational. AIS Director Steve Razidlo
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Independent studies show that children who learn to read and write according to the Jolly Phonics scheme, already in a year are ahead of their chronological age , as well as their peers, by an average of 12 months . Moreover, both boys and girls excel in literacy equally. nine0011
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A guide for teachers and parents explains the principles behind the Jolly Phonics system. Its purpose is to show how the Jolly Phonics curriculum works, as well as provide more opportunities to help children.
Jolly Phonics includes the study of irregular compound words, the so-called "Tricky Words", for example: "said", "was" and "the". Along with the mentioned material, story books should also be used.
Parental support (in the form of praise and all sorts of rewards) during education is essential for children. You should be guided by the pace acceptable to your child. If it so happened that interest in the classes was previously lost, leave the training for a while and return to it later. Not all children are easy to mix sounds. The extra practice will help build solid reading skills and help your child feel confident in school.
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Five basic reading and writing skills:
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- Identification of sounds in words
- Spelling compound words
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To stimulate children's interest and enjoy reading, it is recommended that adults read books to their children. Once children start learning sounds, they can quickly recognize them in words.
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This training event of Jolly Phonics and Jolly Grammar is covering the key skills of teaching children to read and write in English: learning the letter sounds, letter formation, blending, segmenting and tricky words. Gain lots of practical ideas and advice that can be applied in the classroom!
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Course content
Introduction to Jolly Phonics
- Introducing the first alternative letter sounds
- Teaching the 42 letter sounds and letter formation
- Blending for reading
- Segmenting for writing
- Tricky words
- Delivering Jolly Phonics lessons
- How to ensure children can read, write and speak in English
- How to achieve improved spelling and fluency in writing and speaking
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