Reading Program for Kids

Reading Program for Kids

Copyright © 2023 by Marilyn Martyn

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(e-book) 978-1639456284

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Reading Program

for Kids

Teach Your Child to Read Step-by-Step

MARILYN MARTYN

Contents

Preface

About the Author

Introduction

Phonemic or Sound Awareness Activities

Activity 1: Sound Discrimination

Activity 2: Collect a number of pictures from magazines and paste onto card.

Activity 3: Use children’s stories to play with speech sounds.

Activity 4: Letters and Sounds

Activity 5: Naming

Activity 6: Rhyming Game

Activity 7: Sound Boxes

Activity 8: Counting the Sounds in Words

Activity 9: Deleting Sounds

Phonemic Awareness

A Phonogram Checklist is available in the appendix.

An Example of a Lesson Plan

Outline of Lessons

Lesson 1: The Alphabet

Lesson 2: Sounds

Lesson 3: Sounds of the English Language

Lesson 4: How Sounds are Spelled in Words

Lesson 5: Short Vowel Sounds

Lesson 6: Consonant Sounds

Lesson 8: More Words with Short Vowel Sounds

Lesson 9: 3 Letter Words with the CVC Pattern

Lesson 10: ck

Lesson 11: Consonant Blends

Lesson 12: Exercise: Read and Write these Words

Lesson 13: Long Vowel Sounds

Lesson 14: Long Vowel Sounds—Different Spelling

Lesson 15: Vowel Sounds Spelled with Two Letters (Digraphs)

Lesson 16: Double Vowel Rule

Lesson 17: The Other Vowel Sounds

Lesson 18: Consonant Sounds Spelled with Two Letters (Digraphs)

Lesson 19: Review of Vowels

Lesson 20: Consonant Digraphs with Alternate Spellings

Lesson 21: Reading Practice

Lesson 22: Syllables

Lesson 23: Read and Write These Two-Syllable Words.

Reading Strategies

Short Sentences

Days to Play

Fishing

A Fat Rat

Ben and the Hen

A BIG PIG

Bob and Tom

Gus and the Pup

The Game of Cricket

A Day at the Beach

Planet Earth

The Owl

The Wombat

Clever Ants

Traditional Stories for Reading Pleasure

The Little Red Hen

The Lion and the Mouse

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Donkey and the Salt

The Sun and the Wind

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Hare and The Tortoise

The Three Little Pigs

The Great Big Turnip

A Stone in the Road

The Town Mouse and Country Mouse

King Midas

The Tortoise That Talked Too Much

The Spider and The Fly

Little Red Riding Hood

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Ugly Duckling

How the Drought was Broken

The Tar Baby

The Gingerbread Boy

APPENDIX

Be a Spelling Champion

Phonograms Record Sheet

Preface

This book is a resource for parents and caregivers of a child learning to read.

It contains ideas for activities to share with a child. It outlines the primary phonics and skills needed in the early years of learning to read.

The KEY ingredients for effective early reading instruction are: step-by-step instruction in:

Phonemic or sound awareness

Knowledge of letter-sound relationships known as phonics

Reading accessible texts where words are easy to sound out and are parts of a young child’s vocabulary

The FOCUS is on all three.

I present the reading skills taught in the first three years of formal schooling.

Children develop these skills at their pace. It is best if you work patiently with your child and consolidate their progress step-by-step.

Functional imaging has enabled neuroscientists to look inside the human brain. It is comprised of billions of interconnected brain cells.

Reading and writing build up connections within the brain.

These are called reading circuits

Reading circuits are formed in the left hemisphere of the brain

They also connect with other areas in the brain

It takes time and practise for these circuits to form

Reading is, therefore, a whole-brain activity. All brains are unique because everyone builds their brain connections.

When teaching a young child to read, a multi-sensory approach works best. A multi-sensory approach means using kinesthetic (physical), audio and visual activities to build reading circuits.

Three Reading Behaviour Checklists in the Appendix will enable you to measure your child’s progress.

About the Author

Marilyn trained as a teacher-librarian specializing in children’s literature and developed a career around her love of books and reading.

She also spent some time as an education consultant for two publishers, visiting many schools.

Marilyn has taught English and mathematics to children from the beginning grade to year nine in secondary schools.

She found many opportunities to teach children who had difficulty learning to read. She taught many students in schools and still does as a private tutor.

After sitting with many frustrated students who did not know how to decode (sound out) words, Marilyn devised a series of lessons that gave them the ability to sound out words quickly.

These lessons are the foundation of this book.

Modern reading research has shown the crucial role of phonics in learning to read.

Early, systematic and explicit teaching of how to hear the sounds in words, and how to sound out words is vital in the early stages of learning to read.

Marilyn is eager to share her knowledge and experience.