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How to teach-reading
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Here is a great way to show you how to
teach-reading and Language Arts.
They are fun for the kids, which helps them retain the information
longer and easier.
There are numerous ways to integrate educational
technology while you teach-reading. There is no obligation
to purchase, the links are here to give you some great ideas...enjoy! |
  
You can teach reading the easy way
Simple-yet successful ways to teach children
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In these days, more and
more families have decided that home-schooling is the best choice for
their children. Many do not Home School, yet know their child needs additional help.
Many more are frightened at teaching and do not know where to start when it comes to how to teach reading.
We have compiled the properties of the main core of the education and
learning process and the appropriate solutions to teach-reading.
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Where do you start?
Every young child first needs to learn
the individual and unique shapes and names of each letter of the
alphabet. This phase is termed Alphabet
Recognition. The ability to recognize and name each letter is an
important precursor to reading. Here are some best selling titles to
help your children.
Alphabet Express, a set with the 26 letters of
the alphabet to explore, listens, and learns by. It has a handful of
added-on games, imaginative short films, and freeform activities, and
this CD-ROM has both appeal and staying power. |
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If your child prefers Blues Clues
try
Blue's Clue's ABC Activities, where your child
can explore the world of letters, sounds, and words plus identify
letters, build vocabulary, practice phonics, and create rhymes with Blue
and friends. It is an activity pack filled with multilevel learning
games to teach-reading. |
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Teaching in a fun environment
leads to many different
individual tastes in our children, you can also look to different
companies for this curriculum.
School Zone has many more titles in this age
category to learn with too.
Part of the School Zone On-Track software series,
this outstanding program lets children practice their first phonics and
reading skills in a structured yet entertaining setting. Features
include bold graphics, a straightforward sequential presentation of
skills and activities, emphasis on mastery and entertaining games.
Knowledge Adventure's Multi Pack,
Curious George,
Disney,
Harry Potter, and many more.
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Phonics comes once your child has learned
the above. It is the time to teach-reading by teaching them the letter sounds and small
beginner words, or Phonics. This process could
be quite tedious and frustrating, as it involves great amounts of
repetition. This is to reinforce learning combinations of sight
and sound patterns. With the available resources today, it has evolved
into easy work. Let us call it, 'child’s play’; after all, play is
their 'work' right?
School Zone again has our highest rating for this
step, with their
Phonics Interactive Learning Center which
combines the
Big Activity CD-ROM, 160 workbook pages, flash cards, game cards, and a
writing/drawing tablet to create high-value, fun-packed activities that
will entertain as well as educate young children. Each Learning Center,
designed to help children master skills for a specified grade level are
structured kits used as an introduction prior to each grade or during
the year to reinforce classroom lessons.
You may also look to
JumpStart Phonics where your child can
join Casey Cat, Pierre Polar Bear, Frankie the Dog, and the rest of the
JumpStart pals on a fun-filled phonics trip to Camp Readalot. Explore
the campsite, play games that reinforce phonics and reading skills, and
collect special merit badges. Exclusive Read 'n' Respond feature lets
you practice phonics by interacting with the computer, using
speech-recognition technology. Perhaps try the
Reader Rabbit
or
Blues Clues titles.
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Reading Readiness is the next order for
children to make in the transition from phonics levels to reading. They
must first learn that the world around them is made of words. It
involves the important step of becoming aware that words are relevance
and have power. You cannot teach-reading until after this point. SchoolZones,
Beginning Sounds is an
excellent
program that lets children practice their reading readiness skills in a
structured yet entertaining setting. It features include bold graphics,
a straightforward sequential presentation of skills and activities,
emphasis on mastery and fun study breaks with arcade games. With all
pages completed correctly, children can print out a certificate and play
more games. They can also print out many of the activity pages for
completion away from the computer. Skills covered include opposites,
sequencing, matching, and identifying items that belong together. The CD
comes with a workbook, too.
Parents can help children make sense of the world of words by pointing
to words in books as they read, writing words their child dictates to
them, and providing simple and repetitive early readers.
Alphabet Express also has wonderful programs
in this stage.
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We are almost ready to start reading. Little ones
are now able to hear, and distinguish between, individual letter sounds,
as well as a strong awareness of text in a story. They are now showing
an interest in text and stringing together sounds to create words. They
now understand that the word cat, correctly spelled is "cat" and bat is
not cat, etcetera.
Parents turning to software for early reading
training with consistent results should look for a title that uses a
systematic approach-one that incorporates a variety of exercises and one
that features lessons that build upon previous ones. These programs will
be most effective when parents are willing to support and reinforce
learning, and help pace their learning.
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Repetition is an essential element in any
early reading system, but keeping their interest at the same time poses
some difficulties. This is where software comes in. We do not want to
overwhelm them, yet need to stimulate them into learning.
Reader Rabbit, I Can Read With Phonics
incorporates both letter sounds and sight words. It provides meaningful
context to newly learned words through its carefully sequenced
storybooks. The repetitions provided but not too much of it to bore
children.
Does your child love Clifford?
Clifford The Big Red Dog Reading Readiness Program
is for kids
who cannot get enough of stories, songs, and the alphabet. It is sure
to please your child's appetite for learning and fun. It is a simple
yet smartly designed program, which teaches the fundamentals of reading
using a strict phonetic approach.
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Accelerated children will take a noticeable
turn at this stage. If you feel that your child is accelerated, and
ready for this stage, you can look into the Preschool-Excelerator,
a package of four CD-ROMs featuring more than 25 individual lessons and
200 activities that are both entertaining and educational. These titles
designed to engage your child's attention and help his or her confidence
grow as their new skills are mastered.
Even more help comes to the rescue with the
Phonics, Reading and Writing Program. This
four-disc set of software titles combines fun with educational
principles to provide children access to a world of knowledge. Phonics,
Reading & Writing Excelerator will teach children the fundamentals
needed to excel at these critical subjects. Packed with more than 30
individual lessons and more than 200 activities, this educational suite
delivers hours of exciting learning adventures. Each program designed
to help first-time readers with basic skill sets, while reinforcing key
concepts and providing more advanced creative-writing lessons for
intermediate students. Including activities that adjust to your child's
current skill level, these lessons will continue to challenge children
as they improve. Concepts taught include uppercase and lowercase
letters, phonics, word formation, sentence structure, and creative
composition.
As with any teaching method to teach-reading to young children,
pacing a child is crucial. Keep each learning sessions brief and to the
point.
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Tactile Presence is
mandatory for children in their learning process in order to teach-reading. They need to
hold books in their hands in order to thrive in their skills and love
for reading. As important as interactive software storybooks are invaluable to teach-reading, but they
can never completely replace the value of hard copies.
The Runaway Rabbit : Clifford the Big Red Dog (Big Red Reader Series)
is based on
the PBS Clifford series. Emily Elizabeth has asked Clifford to watch her
classroom pet. The bunny escapes and Clifford canąt catch him!
There are dozens of books in this series, so it is sure to keep their
interest alive!
Research has proven that children taught by this
method, outperform their peers who receive instruction from other
programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for
parent and child to use at home. It is a complete, step-by-step program
that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to
read. It is a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your
child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here
-no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions - just
you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully
illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and
more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.
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