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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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Comprehension for Pre-K | NC DPI
What is Comprehension?
Reading comprehension refers to the ability to understand what one reads. It is the ultimate goal of reading instruction. (Definition from University of Oregon)
In pre-k, children are able to listen to and engage in conversations about stories or text that are read aloud to them or experiences they have or hear about. At this stage, children demonstrate understanding through speaking and listening by engaging in conversation about the story, text, or experience.
They are able to remember what is read, retell the story, answer questions, and talk about the story, text, or experience with support from an adult or peer.
What Does it Look Like?
What does it look like to support comprehension before reading?
How can comprehension be supported while reading?
How can a child demonstrate comprehension?
Practice Activities
Predict When Reading: Have the child predict what will happen next when reading a book together. Sample questions include:
- What do you think is going to happen next?
- Oh no! What is she going to do now?
- What would you do if you were him?
- How are they going to solve this problem?
Read Expressions: Use illustrations to help a child build their vocabulary and start to understand emotions. When a character is sad, happy, angry or surprised, pause to look at illustrations and talk about the characters' facial expressions. Ask, "How do you think she's feeling right now?". Authors who are particularly skilled at portraying emotions in both words and pictures include Kevin Henkes, Patricia Polacco, Arnold Lobel and Mo Willems.
Make Connections: Connect personal experiences with recently read stories or informational texts (e.
g., Your shoes got dirty. Now they look brown like Pete the Cat’s shoes in Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes.).
Recall Details: Have the child recall a story or information from text (e.g., book, magazine, brochure). The retell may be organized sequentially (e.g., first, next, last) or by a specific set of details (e.g., color, type of food, habitats, character actions).
Draw a Picture: Have the child draw a picture of the story. Ask the child to tell you about their drawing. Engage in the 3Ts.
Act it Out: Invite the child to act out parts of the story by pretending to be one of the characters. Join in and pretend with them!
PEER Method:
- P: Prompt the child with a question about the story. Prompting the child focuses attention, engages the child in the story, and helps the child understand the book. Point to something in the picture, for example, a balloon. "What is that?"
- E: Evaluate the child's response.
"That's right! That's a balloon." - E: Expand on what the child said. "That's a big, red balloon! We saw one of those in the grocery store yesterday."
- R: Repeat or revisit the prompt you started with, encouraging the child to use the new information you've provided. "Can you say big, red balloon?" Each time the book is reread, the expanded vocabulary words are verbalized again.
Don't feel obligated to use the PEER procedure on every page, with every book. Keep it fun! Use PEER when it fits and when the child is engaged with the story. See PEER information in English and Spanish.
Practice Activities (with Printables)
If you don't have a printer, your child's school will print these for you.
Story Time: Ask questions before, during, and after reading together. Story Time Questions
Online Activities
Story Sequencing: This activity includes listening to a short story and putting picture cards in order (beginning, middle, and end) to retell the story.
Definition, Characteristics, Types, Symptoms, Exercises and Treatment
Prevention and treatment of dyslexia
How to help a child with dyslexia? Before starting any therapy, the child must be diagnosed with dyslexia . This is not an easy task as schools often do not have the proper tools to detect dyslexia. Even if a diagnosis has been made, it is not always possible to help a dyslexic child. Sometimes he can be transferred to a special school, if there is one nearby. However, most of the burden falls on the parents. They need to be on the lookout and detect the problem as early as possible. Dyslexia is important to notice in time. The sooner treatment for childhood dyslexia is started, the better for the child . He will receive support, the opportunity to overcome the disorder and prevent possible suffering and a decrease in self-esteem.
How to treat dyslexia? It is very important to observe the child daily, without wasting precious time and without waiting for more serious symptoms to begin the correction.
The most effective treatment for dyslexia is its early recognition ! It is necessary to minimize developmental difficulties and begin to apply the correct treatment.
Scientific Validation: Studies that show the effectiveness of the CogniFit program in correcting childhood dyslexia
The CogniFit personal training program improves the cognitive skills of dyslexic students.
It was noted that when students with dyslexia exercised on the CogniFit personal training program, their brain activity, working memory and reading efficiency increased significantly (the number of correctly read words per minute increased by 14.73%). The improvement lasted up to six months after the end of training, positively affecting dyslexia. Read the study
Dyslexia is much more common than is commonly thought. It affects about 90,005 10% of the 90,006 population. Dyslexia is a learning disorder of neurological origin that makes it difficult to read, write, and generally decipher letters and any other language symbols.
What is it like to be dyslexic? When reading, dyslexics focus all their attention on decoding sounds and pronunciation of the word, resulting in a collapse in working memory that does not allow the brain to allocate resources to other higher tasks, such as understanding the text.
Some studies define dyslexia as a deficit in neural connections related to speech processing. Words are difficult for dyslexics to visualize because dysfunction of neural connections makes it difficult to access speech information stored in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain responsible for phonetic processing.
Dyslexia can be inherited, so often several family members suffer from this disorder. It occurs in children with normal intelligence, without any mental, physical or cultural problems. Reading difficulties do not affect other cognitive abilities. On the contrary, dyslexics often have heightened senses and develop high intelligence and creativity, which is why dyslexia is sometimes called the disease of creative people, the "disease of geniuses" and is even considered a sign of genius.
Not all types of dyslexia are equally severe, however it is important to diagnose and treat it as early as possible to avoid possible developmental problems, low self-esteem, frustration, school failure or sleep problems in children.
Dyslexia in children
Dyslexia in children can be detected as early as preschool age . Symptoms of dyslexia can persist into childhood, adolescence, and even into adults.
Although every child is unique, Children with dyslexia tend to speak later, have poorer listening comprehension, and have a vocabulary less than than other children their age. Often they confuse letters such as B and Z (or P and b), or the order of the letters in a word, they find it difficult to concentrate.
Decreased attention may be caused by cognitive fatigue. Children with dyslexia have to make a lot of effort when reading and writing, so they get tired and lose concentration more quickly.
Brain activity of an ordinary person Reading Dyslexic Brain Activity Reading
Because children with dyslexia need support and encouragement from parents and teachers, it is important to detect dyslexia at an early age. By providing your child with the right supplies, you will help him cope with school.
The sooner treatment is started, the greater the chance of minimizing problems that may be caused by dyslexia. If left untreated, as they grow older, people with dyslexia can become depressed, experience increased anxiety, their self-esteem drops, and they may even drop out of school.
Dyslexia and the brain
Children with dyslexia have certain neurological disorders. The cells that make up speech processing neural networks are not organized properly, making it difficult to decipher words and understand the meaning of what is read.
Effective reading requires processes of understanding, interpretation and learning.
The way the brain processes text is called "lexical strategy". Problems with access to vocabulary in dyslexic children are associated with:
- Impairments in linguistic information processing.
- Problems with working memory.
- Problems with the speed of information processing.
Signs and symptoms of dyslexia
The symptoms of dyslexia vary from child to child and are not constant and may even change within the same day. In addition, as the child grows older, the symptoms may also change.
Signs of dyslexia:
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Problems with reading.
Difficulty deciphering letters and any language codes or symbols, making it difficult to read. Children with dyslexia often distort the pronunciation of words, have poor processing and reading comprehension, and find it difficult to read fluently, so they usually do not like to read.
Types of dyslexia. Classification
Although some symptoms are common to dyslexia, scientists have identified several types of dyslexia.
First of all, genetic and acquired forms of dyslexia are distinguished.
How can dyslexia be diagnosed?
Dyslexia affects such cognitive abilities as working memory, speed of reaction and information processing, as well as executive functions. . Poor development of these cognitive skills may indicate dyslexia.
Is there a cure for dyslexia?
Is dyslexia curable? Dyslexia is a chronic disorder that does not improve with age. However, this is not a cause for alarm, since dyslexia manifests itself in different ways at different stages of human development.
Most important - early diagnosis of dyslexia . The sooner we offer the child tools to help him adapt to the learning process , the more likely he is to optimize his mental resources and be able to live a full life.
How to treat dyslexia?
If a child is diagnosed with dyslexia from an early age, then an individualized correction program may be included, since at an early age children are more likely to develop alternative strategies to help them adapt to the educational system.
In early childhood, the brain is more plastic and prone to creating new neurons, so the sooner the use of tools to strengthen the neural networks associated with language and speech processing, the more likely it is to compensate for impaired functions.
Early detection and treatment of dyslexia can help prevent emotional distress.
If you suspect dyslexia, it is best to seek a diagnosis from a specialist, such as a speech therapist, who will help identify existing difficulties and prescribe specialized exercises to improve cognitive abilities responsible for speech and language. Otherwise, a person may suffer at a cognitive level due to a lack of concentration, impaired working or short-term memory, information processing speed and other cognitive abilities that we need daily.
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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 range of academic and social areas, from test scores to resilience to stress.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.
● Drama 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.”
To this end, visionary schools offer theater programs throughout a child's career.
Dramatic art, although often whimsical, should be taken seriously as an essential developmental tool in a student's academic life American International School - Vienna Principal Steve Razidlo
How can drama be incorporated into class work?
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.
