Reading readiness programs

Reading Readiness Center, LLC

Reading Readiness Center, LLC is an enrichment program designed to help prepare children for Kindergarten. We help children learn to read. Our goal is to help early learners reach their full potential. We want to reach as many children as possible and provide them an exceptional fun and leaning experience. We believe each child goes through different learning stages as they grow. So, we have created a unique learning tool to help each child individually. Our classes are interactive and engaging. Our Proprietary curriculum is fun and helps develop early literacy skills in children. We offer classes that are focused on children’s creative learning, development growth, social emotional needs and academic achievement. Our proven methodology helps grow children’s intelligence and capabilities. Through a variety of activities, we keep kids engaged, focused and motivated. So, they can play, learn and grow!

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Message From The Director

We want every child at Reading Readiness Center, LLC to have a wonderful experience with their Early Childhood Education. Every child must feel very Safe, Comfortable, and Happy. My personal belief is that no learning can take place until they feel all three. So, we welcome you to the Program with the promise to try our best to accomplish this, and academic success will follow.

Nabila Imran

Director - Reading Readiness Center, LLC

COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM

• Individualized Attention: Working with kids individually to ensure their progress.
• Group Session: Small group settings to work as a team. Learn to share ideas and projects. Help built confidence.
• Interactive Class Activites: Help with worksheets and reading with an experienced teacher.
• Classwork: Learn by practicing writing skills from beginning to advance levels.
• Storytime: To encourage listening and participation.
• Tests And Assessments: Teachers help assess kids’ progress and work towards their goals.
• Research-Based Curriculum: Step by step curriculum to motivate kids to accomplish higher levels.
• Artwork: To promote creativity and motor skills.

Interactive Class Activities

11 fun activities to prepare your child for reading

Try these activities to teach your child the four key components of successful reading: understanding syllables, understanding words and sentences, rhyming, phonemic awareness.

We have prepared for you a colorful poster with these exercises for printing (download links below, under the text)!

1. Collect the word (Understanding syllables).

Explain that syllables are parts of words. Demonstrate by saying the word and pushing one block in a row accentuating each syllable. Gather the cubes back into a pile before saying the next word. Instead of blocks, you can give the children small paper squares for a group activity. Prepare a list of words to practice. For example, you can practice words related to something your child is currently learning.

2. What's in the box (Understanding syllables).

Collect several items in a box or basket. Be sure to include items that differ from each other in the number of syllables in their name. Invite the child to close their eyes, choose an item from the box, and name it (for example, “This is a pencil”). All children must repeat the name of the chosen subject and clap their hands, emphasizing each syllable. Then ask the class to say in chorus how many syllables they heard.

3. I went to the store (Rhymes).

Have students sit in a circle and give them something to throw, such as a small ball or a pillow. To start the game, say "I went to the store to buy meat", then toss the ball to the student. The student should repeat the phrase and add a rhyming word at the end, for example: “I went to the store to buy kvass (or a vase, lasso, blot, etc.)”. Then the student should throw the ball back to the teacher, who repeats the original phrase with a new word that needs to come up with a rhyme (for example, “I went to the store to buy cheese (or fat, kefir, figs”). Maintain a fast pace so that the children do not lose interest.

4. The ship is loaded ... (Rhymes).

Have the children sit in a circle and make sure you have something to throw, such as a ball or pillow. To start the game, say "The ship is loaded with cheese." Then throw the ball to one of the students. This student must come up with a rhyme (for example, “The ship is loaded with kefir”) and throw the ball back to you. After repeating the original phrase, throw the ball to another child. Continue the game in this way until the children run out of rhymes. Then name another cargo on the ship and continue the game. Come up with new game situations to expand the list of possible rhymes.

5. Listen to the words in a sentence (Understanding words and sentences).

Give each child six or seven bricks, Lego bricks, or construction paper squares that they will use to represent the words in the sentence you will make for them, one brick for each word. Brainstorm with the children by showing them how to repeat your sentences to themselves, word by word, with clear pauses between each sentence. Invite the children to arrange the blocks in order from left to right so that they begin to master the orientation. After they have laid out the blocks, have the students repeat your sentence, pointing to each block as they say the word it represents.

6. Name the animals (phonemic perception).

Use animal cards or photos cut from magazines. Give the students pictures and ask them to name the animals. Ask: “What sound do you hear at the beginning/end of this animal’s name?” This game can be expanded with more pictures on different topics and students can play it in pairs.

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Have the children sit in a circle and say, "Guess whose name I'm going to say now." Then choose one of the students and clearly pronounce only the initial phoneme of his name. For names that begin with a plosive consonant, such as Danya, the phoneme must be repeated over and over again, clearly and distinctly: “/d/ /d/ /d/ /d/ /d/”. Fricative consonants should be stretched and repeated (for example, “/s-s-s-s/ / s-s-s-s / /s-s-s-s/ /s-s-s-s /”). If several children's names start with the same phoneme, have the children guess all the possible options. This will show the children that each phoneme appears in many different words.

8. Simple words (Isolation and identification of phonemes).

Give yourself and each child three colored cubes. Begin by saying a two-letter word (such as "yes"), clearly separating it into parts: "y ... a." Ask the children to repeat what you said. Then all children have to represent the word with two blocks of different colors to show that it consists of two sounds. Further explain that words can consist of more than two sounds. To demonstrate this, say the word “gift,” “d...a...r,” and have the children repeat the word in unison. To represent the third phoneme, place a new block to the right of the other two blocks, saying the entire word, phoneme by phoneme, pointing to each block in turn from left to right.

9. Funny words (Isolation and identification of phonemes).

Show the children the sound and ask them to substitute it for the sound at the beginning of their names or any other words. The teacher might say, “A funny sound is /b/. Change the first sound in your name to /b/”, for example, Masha will become Basha, and Stas will become Btas.

10. Conversation with the robot (phoneme fusion).

Pronounce the word, stretching it out, pausing about a second between each phoneme. Then ask students to repeat the whole word to you. For example, when a teacher says: “/h/.../e/.../r/... /n/. ../s/.../d/”, students respond: “Black!”

11. Head-girdle-legs (Segmentation of phonemes).

This is a great activity to help students identify inner sounds. Say a three-sound word, such as "cheese." Students then stand up and touch their heads with the first sound (/s/), their belts with the second sound (/s/), and their toes with the last sound (/p/). Then touch your belt again and ask, "What sound is that?" Continue practicing sounds in positions that are difficult for students to identify on their own.

Does your child have a reading disability?

Thanks to the FAST FORWORD method, the child will catch up with the age norm in reading in just 20-40 hours of play-activities!

Learn more about the methodology and sign up for online trial classes, help your child overcome reading difficulties quickly and permanently!

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Reading training program for preschoolers, Teaching a child to read

For parents of preschoolers > Useful for parents

Bardova Lidia Georgievna

How good it is to be able to read!

Don’t pester your mother,

Don’t shake your grandmother:

“Read, please, read!”

Don't beg your sister:

"Well, read another page."

No need to call,

No need to wait,

Or you can take

And read!

Valentin Berestov

"Teaching a Child to Read" is an effective and affordable program for teaching preschoolers to read fluently and consciously

Problems in teaching young children to read.

Reading is an amazing means of understanding the world. We use this tool every day in a variety of situations. At any moment we can satisfy our curiosity by opening a book or turning on a computer. Over the long years of study, the process of reading has reached us to automatism. We read without difficulty, and sometimes it seems to us that there is nothing easier than reading.

If a preschooler grows up in a family, then parents face the question: how to teach a child to read. In the old days, children were taught to read at school, but now, following some unwritten rule, the child must enter the 1st grade as a reader.

I must say that the parents themselves learned the basics of reading many years ago, and, of course, forgot how laborious and complex this process is. Therefore, many of them enthusiastically undertake to teach their child this “simple”, as they consider, process. And if the child is easily trained, then the parents cope with this work without problems.

However, many parents face great difficulties in teaching their children to read. This forces them to look for the necessary information on the Internet and on the bookshelves, where it is now, by the way, countless. However, often this information is either difficult for home use, or very ineffective. Therefore, some parents, whose family budget allows this, resort to the help of tutors.

What about other parents? Who will teach their children to read?

It turns out that preschoolers have become hostages of this difficult situation.

An effective children's education program.

For parents who would like to help their child learn to read, this guide has been developed. When compiling it, the experience of the most successful primary school teachers, as well as tutors preparing children for school, was used. This program is based on the well-known rule: any hard work will become easy if:

- correctly divide it into parts, i.e. - dose correctly;

- and then arrange these parts in a strictly defined sequence.

In the proposed program, the sequence of studying letters and syllables differs significantly from the generally accepted traditional system at school. And the amount of material for each lesson is dosed, taking into account the fact that at this age the attention of children is extremely unstable. Therefore, you need to deal with a child for about 10-15 minutes a day.

It is this sequence of each session and precisely this dosing of these activities that have become the main advantages of this program.

And one more of its advantages is that an adult does not have to have a pedagogical education to work under this program: it is enough for him to show a sample of reading and achieve its repetition.

Recommendations.

1. Create and maintain a positive classroom environment. Show maximum patience, do not rush the child while reading, tell him at a critical moment. Never scold him, praise him with or without reason.
2. Currently, various gadgets do nothing to awaken a child's interest in reading. Moreover, some children openly express a stubborn unwillingness to read. Given this circumstance, classes should be started in a mild form, without pressure and coercion, reaching agreement with the child, taking into account his desires, but at the same time showing some perseverance. And, due to the fact that these classes are short in time and small in volume, after a few days the child positively perceives the process of reading.
3. Set yourself and your child up for daily activities (except weekends) , make them an obligatory item of the daily routine.
4. Teachers and psychologists argue that each child has his own pace of learning. That is why this program does not indicate the time frame for passing a particular lesson. But, to achieve good results, one very important rule should be observed: the next lesson should be only when the syllables and words of the previous the child reads without errors and at a good pace. Throughout all classes, this is the most important rule. Strict observance of it leads to the formation of one of the most important skills in a child - the skill of confident reading. And this is the foundation on which fluent reading is subsequently easily developed.

The word is up to adults.

The purpose of this program is to make it as easy as possible to teach reading, not only for children, but also for adults. It includes 28 lessons that clearly show how much work a small child has to do in order to learn to read. For example, one two-letter syllables will have to learn more than 150 options.

If parents decide to walk this path together with their child, they are worthy of the deepest respect and reverence. And as a reward for this work, parents will repeatedly experience feelings of joy for each success, as well as pride in themselves and in their child. And then all the difficulties that have to be overcome during this time are forgotten.

And one more important factor: such joint activities and success bring adults and children much closer.

Experience shows that love for a child, patience and regular practice necessarily lead to the fact that by the end of learning to read under this program, the vast majority of children read at the level of a student completing grade 1, and some even better . Surprisingly, this result is achieved with just 10-15 minutes of practice per day! Of course, such a result justifies any time spent on these classes.

Teach your child to read easily and with joy!

Good luck to you and your child!

Classes for teaching reading to preschoolers

Content of the classes.

The number of syllables and words selected for each lesson is quite enough to learn to read, but this is subject to the rule mentioned above: the next lesson should be started only when the syllables and words of the previous lesson are read by the child error-free and confident.

Lesson 1.

First, learn 20 consonants. They should be pronounced briefly, abruptly, without overtones. You can't pronounce Be, We, Ge...

At first, we learn only capital letters together with the corresponding picture, then we read them without pictures.

B C D E F G K L M N

P R S T V W Y Z

Lesson 2 HA TSA CHA SHA SHA