Reading for beginners kindergarten
The Complete Guide For Families
Kindergarten reading is an exciting beginning to your child’s lifelong relationship with literature and language. HOMER is here with the complete guide of what to expect, how to help, and how to have fun during this new adventure!
Goals For Kindergarten Reading
There are several reading skills your child will be introduced to during kindergarten. Let’s take a look!
1) Phonological And Phonemic Awareness
The biggest thing that will influence your child’s reading success in the future is their ability to navigate phonological and phonemic awareness.
They’ll learn how to manipulate and play with sounds and words through these two avenues. They’ll work on isolating individual sounds in words, recognizing and blending syllables, matching letter sounds to the alphabet, and so much more!
2) Print And Book Awareness
Print awareness includes things like knowing that print is read from left to right and top to bottom, that words are made up of individual letters, and that words are separated by spaces.
Developing book awareness skills means your child will understand how to navigate a table of contents, where to identify the author’s name, book title, and page numbers inside of a book.
Knowing these things will help your child know where to go in a book if they need a little bit of extra guidance or context! Plus, it will teach them what roles these little bits of information play in the formation of a story.
Along with recognizing letters and where to find information, your child’s print and book awareness skills will expand to include punctuation. Over time, they will learn the emotional nuances behind periods, exclamation points, and question marks.
They’ll also learn how to recognize common types of text, such as poems, stories, and more.
3) CVC Words And Letter-Sound Recognition
Your child will start by learning how to associate letter sounds with their respective letters. This is what we call letter-sound recognition!
Once they establish a consistent association between letters and their sounds, they’ll be ready to move on to learning how to read and spell simple consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.
This includes words like bat, dog, leg, and so on. These words are easier for children to start with because they have just three phonetically regular sounds to blend together.
4) Recognizing Sight Words
By the end of kindergarten, your child will begin to consistently recognize many basic words by “sight.”
Sight words are words that are often more difficult to decode. This is because many of them don’t follow typical phonetic rules — they look a little bit different than how they sound.
Some sight words are phonetically regular, but the phonetic rule is too advanced for a beginning reader. These types of words will inform your child’s reading skills and make reading much easier!
Examples of sight words include:
- The
- Was
- Are
- Bread
- Again
- Have
- What
And many more!
5) Beginning To Read
Now that your child has begun to master the other skills we’ve mentioned, they will be ready to launch into reading for the first time! With lots of support from you, of course.
They’ll use their skills with letter-sound correspondence, print awareness, and CVC words to make their way through simple texts. They’ll demonstrate a broad understanding of storylines and illustrations that support the events in a story.
Their comprehension levels will remain pretty straightforward at this stage, but they’ll be able to ask and answer simple questions about the key things they read (or saw in pictures). They will also be able to retell the most important events!
Most kindergarteners won’t be able to analyze the subtler side of stories, like themes or metaphors. But talking with them about the big ideas is a wonderful way to prime their brains for those conversations as they get older!
Kindergarten Reading Practice At Home
Here are some small, effective ways to make reading acquisition a little easier and develop your child’s love of reading from home!
Work On Mastering The Alphabet
It sounds so simple, but mastering the alphabet will give your child a huge leg-up when it comes to kindergarten reading.
Consistently and correctly recognizing letters means your child will have an easier time sounding out new words and memorizing familiar ones! They should be able to differentiate between upper and lower case letters, too.
Specifically, mastering the alphabet, especially linking letters to sounds, directly contributes to their success with sight words and reading, as well as spelling CVC words (they have to recognize the alphabet to be able to spell!).
You can help your child master the alphabet by playing letter recognition games, like making letters out of PlayDoh or creating personalized alphabet cards.
Overall, this is a great step to round out the foundations of their kindergarten reading skills!
Reread Books
You and your child may have played out this scene before: they stroll over to the bookshelf and pick out the same book they’ve read three nights in a row with you. Should you be worried?
Absolutely not! Rereading books is actually a great tip for strengthening your kindergartener’s reading skills.
Rereading is wonderful practice and strengthens your child’s vocabulary. Rather than learning a word once and not revisiting it, they can familiarize themselves with new words and gradually reinforce how to use them.
This means you’re supporting their efforts to recognize words more consistently, as well as developing their print and book awareness!
Additionally, rereading allows your child to dive a little deeper into a book. Each time, they will learn and notice more about the characters, their motivations, and how their actions lead to certain results.
Play Sight Word Games
Learning and reading are not just for the classroom!
There are plenty of easy and effective sight word games you can play at home. Your child won’t even realize that in the midst of all the fun, they’re getting a little bit smarter, too!
While we have lots of sight word game options for your family to explore, it’s also easy to whip up a quick game at home. Sight word games are easily transferable to board games you may already have in your house, like Twister, Bingo, or Jenga.
Give Your Emerging Reader Control
Allowing your child a little bit of liberty when it comes to reading can be a great confidence booster.
Plus, when they feel like they have some control over their own reading journey, it can incentivize them to participate more. This can be incorporated into your routine in little ways.
You could let them choose what book you read together (remember rereading is OK, too!). You could also practice shared reading, allowing them to read small bite-sized words at the beginning or end of sentences.
Taking it one step at a time will help them feel comfortable and confident when it comes to reading, and they’ll be even more excited to develop their skills so they can eventually read on their own!
This carries over into life outside of books, too. Showing your child the power of reading can include pointing out signs, labels, or other writing in their environment.
Act Out The Story
There’s no rule that says you have to sit down and snuggle to read a book (though we’re certainly not complaining about that method).
If you want to burn some energy and get moving, you and your child can act out the events in a story as they’re happening.
Working together to portray what’s happening in a book as you read can help your child focus and dive deeper into the story, as well as give them visual context for what’s being read.
It sets a strong foundation for their recall skills; when they retell the events (or revisit the story at a later time), they’ll be thinking about all the fun, silly ways you two acted out the story together.
You can use this time to work on their print and book awareness skills, too. If they ever have a question about the book, you two can search together, noting helpful keys like the table of contents or the index to find the answer!
Kindergarten Reading For Future Success
You’ve made it! You now have the basics of what you need to know about kindergarten reading.
Through developing their phonological and phonemic awareness skills, print and book awareness, letter-sound recognition, and sight word vocabulary, your child will be ready to begin their independent reading journey in no time!
HOMER is here to show you and your child that reading and playing do intersect.
In fact, we think they’re better together!
That’s why our Learn & Grow App is always packed with personalized activities for your child: to help them succeed in kindergarten reading and beyond!
We hope this article not only gave you some ideas of how to help your child succeed at home, but also how to nourish their growing love of reading and learning, too.
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Learning to read | Kindergarten No. 74 of a general developmental type
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For you, parents!
(from the work experience of the educator MADOU No. 74 Rubtsova Marina Vasilievna )
Parents of preschool children attending kindergarten often rely on the fact that their children will be prepared for school by the efforts of educators. Indeed, specially organized classes help children prepare for school, but without the help of parents, such preparation will not be of high quality.
Experience shows that no best children's institution - neither kindergarten nor elementary school - can completely replace the family, family education.
In a preschool institution, children are taught many useful skills, they are taught to draw, count, write and read. But if the family does not take an interest in the child’s activities, do not attach due importance to them, do not encourage diligence and diligence, the child also begins to treat them with disdain, does not strive to work better, correct his mistakes, and overcome difficulties in work. Some children are deeply offended by such inattention of their parents, they cease to be sincere and frank. On the contrary, the interest of parents in the affairs of the child attaches particular importance to all the achievements of the child. Help in overcoming the difficulties that arise in the performance of any kind of activity is always accepted with gratitude and contributes to the closeness of parents and children. At home, the ability to read can come as naturally to a child as the ability to walk or talk. Dear parents, grandparents! If you want to teach your child to read before he goes to school, pay attention and understanding to all our advice.
To avoid the sad consequences of illiterate learning.
Learning to read
It is believed that learning to read early gives a child great intellectual potential. A pre-reader or a first-grader who is already reading develops faster, learns easier and better, and remembers more.
Where to start?
- The main rule of learning to read: "Do not chase the result!". First, show your child the alphabet. If he is interested, consider it, name the letters, syllables. Learning to read is best started on their own initiative. Your task is to support, not to ruin the initiative with excessive zeal.
- Learning to read can begin with the study of letters or syllables. Colorful tables, posters, cubes are well suited for these purposes. The material may change from time to time. And it is not at all necessary to memorize the alphabetic name of the letters with the kids.
- Pay special attention to the game form of the lessons, as well as their duration (15-20 minutes).
Do not forget how joyful and interesting they will be, his further education largely depends. The main thing is not to forget that all this is just a game, and not preparation for the exam.
-If a child is ill or not in the mood to study, it is better to postpone the “lesson”, do not study by force.
-Lessons should be varied, change tasks often, because small children get tired quickly and their attention is scattered. So you will have to constantly maintain the interest of the child in what you propose to do.
-Read in front of the child. Mom is the best role model.
- In parallel with reading, you can learn to write. The child will be quite capable of performing graphic tasks: circle simple figures point by point with your hand. You can "type" on the old keyboard. Maze toys prepare a hand well for writing, in which small details need to be raised, for example, from bottom to top, or swiped from left to right.
Important about letters
You can often see such a picture on the street.
Mom asks the child, pointing to any letter of the sign on the house: "What is this letter?" The child happily answers: "PE!", Or "EM!", Or "ES!" One feels like saying:
“Dear adults! If this is how you call letters to children,
, then how will your little student read the syllable "MA"? Imagine, he will most likely get "EMA"! And he will be right: EM + A = EMA. And the word "MA-MA" in this case will be read as "EMA-EMA"!
Most teachers and speech therapists agree that when teaching preschool children, the alphabetic army should be called in a simplified way: not “pe”, but “p”, not “me”, but “m”.
Learning to read at home
How to teach to read and not injure the psyche, not to force, but on the contrary, arouse interest and desire? If you actively played with the child, while attracting a book, then this will greatly facilitate the task.
The first unsuccessful experiences can completely discourage you from starting to learn to read.
The child understands that learning to read is not so easy and hardly repeats attempts. Learn more letters back and forth. But to combine them into words and read, and then understand what you read - it's pretty hard. But gradually the child overcomes this difficulty.
Learn to read in the game. But, most importantly, what we should remember is not to torment the child and ourselves. Don't make it an unpleasant duty, don't compare one child to another.
Here we need patience, love, consistency, fantasy. You can beat the learning process, turn it into a holiday, into an exciting game. Keep it short but effective.
So, let's move on to the study of letters and sounds.
1. Learning is best to start with vowels.
Some parents have already introduced their children to different letters, but where do you start? You need to start with vowels, which you need to determine whether the child remembers them well.
To teach children to read, you can use cut out letters, paint, plasticine, whatever you want.
Now I'll show you some exercises that will help you reinforce the learned vowels.
- I will call you a letter, and you take it out of the magic box and we are building a house with you:
E e
A A A A
Ob of
and
U in
E E
This is needed for that. so that the child learns to read and write lines. ( Can be read)
It will take some time to memorize one letter, three, four, five or even six days. If the child remembers longer, it's okay. It is important that the child not only read a new letter, but also knows how to find it. You can ask the child to find the letter O , then the letter A , and so quietly the child makes a train.
A U O E I S E Y Y Y Y E
Later, when the train is completed, the child can read it. If a child has a hard time remembering vowels, you can remember them associatively.
But A , as always, does not cause difficulties, U are ears, And - we smile, O - this is a circle, what we see, then we say, the letter Yu - can be remembered as a skirt, E - the car is driving, E - hedgehog, If the child has forgotten the letter, then ask him: "Prickly with eyes."
The most difficult letter of the vowels is the letter E . This letter is difficult because some children pronounce it like E , this is wrong. It is necessary to monitor the correct pronunciation of the sound and correct the child.
A U O E I S E Y Y Y E
The letter E came out to the yard for a walk, which letter came out to her, choose.
EO , change places you get OE .
So, we have already learned the vowels, let's move on to the consonants.
Consonants
To study consonants, choose the first voiced letter, M, N, L, R .
Consonants are best studied immediately with a familiar vowel. It is easier for a child to remember a new letter. In addition, we thus imperceptibly approach the syllables.
To do this, the child needs to build a house out of vowels:
A E
OU
U
and I
Next, we introduce a child with a new consonant letter. We tell the child to raise the letter on the elevator while reading the syllable.
If a child cannot remember a letter or pronounces it incorrectly, an exercise called "Pens, Pens" will come in handy.
The child sits in front of you so that he is not distracted, take his hands. This exercise is difficult and requires a lot of attention.
You hold the child by the hands, and he, looking into your mouth, repeats after you.
The peculiarity of this exercise is that the child does not see the letter, he perceives it by ear.
First, show the child the letter with your hand, and let him name them, later you remove your hand and the child should show and name the letters. For example: with the letter , will have NU , etc. It is necessary to ensure that the child reads not only when you show him with your finger, but so that he himself can take and read.
Syllables
Children usually stumble at this stage. It is difficult for them to read syllables together. It is important that the child not only read the syllables first consonants and then vowels, but also to be able to distinguish when, on the contrary, there are first a vowel and then a consonant.
We offer you a manual that makes it easy for children to learn syllabic reading.
Didactic manual for teaching reading "Magic Windows"
At the stage of learning to read syllables, it is useful to use such a device.
Making this educational game is not an easy task. But all preschoolers like to play with "windows", and you will not regret taking the time to make this manual.
You will need:
2 sheets of white or colored card stock;
sketchbook;
ruler;
simple pencil;
colored pencils or markers;
scissors, glue.
Make a markup on one sheet of cardboard: lay the sheet horizontally, divide it into 2 equal parts with a vertical line, mark windows at the same level in each half, observing the same indentation from the edges and from the middle line. Cut out the windows with scissors. On the reverse side, glue a cap from the second sheet of cardboard. Apply glue only along the middle line, along the right and left edges.
Open the album in the middle, unfasten the staples and pull out the double sheet of paper. Cut it in half lengthwise so that you get two identical strips. Mark each strip along its entire length: draw rectangles with a width corresponding to the height of the window in the part made of cardboard earlier.
On one strip, write the vowels A, O, U, Y, I, E, E, I, Yu, E (one letter in each rectangle). On the second strip, write the consonants M, P, N, K, C, C, T, B, D, G, 3, F (also one letter in each rectangle).
Insert the strips into the cardboard frame: the vowel strip on the right, the consonant strip on the left.
Now set any consonant letter in the left window, and move the right bar so that vowels appear in turn in the right window. Let the child read the resulting syllables. For example: MA - MO - MU - WE - MI - ME - MY - MY - MU - ME. Move the bar on the left to make a new consonant appear, move the right bar again, inviting the child to read new syllables.
Next time, leave the vowel you chose unchanged, and change the consonant by moving the left bar in the boxes. Ask the child to read the resulting syllables. For example: MA - PA - NA - VA - TA - BA - KA - SA - GA, etc.
You can swap the stripes, in this version the child will read chains of so-called reverse syllables, where the first letter is a vowel and the second is a consonant .
For example: AP - AM - AN - AB - AT - AS - AF - HELL, AK - OK - UK - KY - IR - EK - YOK - YUK - YAK - EK.
Invite the child to move the strips independently. Ask to compose any syllable according to your task or the desire of the baby. Organize a "School for Toys" where the teacher - your child - will show his toys different syllables with the help of this manual. Good luck!
10 interesting books for young children and preschoolers: from fairy tales to instructive stories
Preschoolers can only be envied. They have an endless supply of great children's books, no summer recommended reading lists, and parents and grandparents ready to read aloud. We have selected books for you that will appeal not only to children, but also to adults - because they will read them together.
1. "Martha from Sosnovka", Nina Pavlova
Marfa the Pig comes out of any situation with a piggy tail high. Charismatic, goal-oriented and very enterprising. Flight to the moon? Own icebreaker? Easily! And in general, the whole order in Sosnovka rests solely on this mischievous, eccentric, infinitely kind and risky pig.
Funny and instructive stories, in the epigraph to which it says that there is a little bit of Martha in every reader.
2. "The Secret of Chocolate Bunnies", Valentina Degteva
Every child at least once in his life dreamed of growing up quickly to become an adult and that his parents and grandparents would understand him. But Timofey Kornev faced the opposite problem: his relatives suddenly became his peers! And how to return everything to its place in the remaining half an hour before the New Year, and even in the company of a good-for-nothing Santa Claus, is completely incomprehensible.
A funny and instructive story about how important it is to correctly formulate your desires, and about how to deal with the requirements and expectations of parents.
3. "Let's go catch the monster!", Asya Ploshkina
If the children, Lelya and Petrik, decide to put things in order in the Mirror Bay, which was covered in fog by some sea monster, then they will certainly cope.
Even if they are expected to meet with vampires, trolls, mermaids and huge mountain snails, and the caves under the Giant Mountain are still fraught with a lot of secrets and obstacles insurmountable for adults.
4. "How the Cricket Gets Well" by Toon Tellegen
A cozy and unhurried story that helps children better deal with their emotions. In this philosophical tale, Toon Tellegen tells children in simple language about the "gloomy feeling" that has settled in the cricket's head - depression.
And what if you don't even want to celebrate your own birthday? All the forest dwellers rush to help, each with their own history and character.
Of course, the "gloomy feeling" will go away, and the children, turning over the last page of the book, will remain with the confidence that any troubles can be overcome with the support of loved ones.
5. "Library", Sarah Stewart
A funny story in verse for one tooth for those who love reading, but are embarrassed to admit it.
No wonder - after all, everyone around is dancing, walking and doing who knows what! But Elizabeth Brown prefers to read and spend all her money not on shoes, but on books. True, soon there will be no room at all in the house, and then ... What will happen next, you will find out when you finish reading the book to the end.
6. "Captain Nemo", Winnie Ang, Charlotte Severins
Jacob doesn't like solving examples, but loves the sea and drawing fish. He dreams of building a submarine and conquering the depths of the sea. Parents will definitely remember the story of Captain Nemo, and this colorful book motivates children not to give up and go towards their dream, even if everyone around is against it.
7. Petrushka the Lion by Michael Bond
Paddington Bear definitely has a competitor! Leo Petrushka and his friend the dog Dill live in the Garden of Herbs and Spices, and their life is wonderful, because you never know what will happen to you the next moment.
And what happens to them is an egg mess, and an exhibition of sketches, more like the fact that a trash can exploded near a Bay leaf, and also an inventive and automotive mood and ... you can’t remember everything.
Funny and funny stories with a game of words and meanings in the best traditions of classical English literature. Children will receive lessons for all occasions, and parents will enjoy a great sense of humor. And, by the way, they will replenish their piggy bank of ideas for games with preschoolers.
8. "Skunk and Badger" by Amy Timberlake
Can a Badger the Rockman (almost like a dancer, only about stones) and a Skunk with a chicken whistle in a suitcase get along under the same roof of a red brick house? A children's book filled with a lot of meanings for adults. Children will find in it tips on how to make friends and how to communicate, how to build personal boundaries and how to learn to be truly kind and responsive. And adults will enjoy the Easter eggs left for them about traveling salesmen and "hospitality".
9. “Bee music” and “Everything in the forest sings”, Vasily Sukhomlinsky
For most people, Vasily Sukhomlinsky is an innovative teacher, the creator of the pedagogical system. And meanwhile, he was also a children's writer! And he wrote more than 1200 fairy tales and short stories.
The collections published in Rosmen on exclusive rights include Sukhomlinsky's most famous short stories about nature, children and animals. The texts easily and clearly tell children about important human values, show the difference between good and bad deeds and their consequences.
10. “Kindergarten, eighth group”, Victoria Lederman
Light and funny poems for children who know what it's like to lie quietly under the covers at a quiet hour, when you want to indulge, and another children's song is spinning in your head, memorized in the morning at a music lesson. And on the locker, instead of your favorite superheroes, there is a boring carrot. The collection contains a whole year of life in kindergarten from autumn to summer.
