Pre-Readers
About Learning
to Read
How Natural Reading Happens
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Why did Matt learn to read all by himself? We hadn't taught him,
had we? It just sort of happened. By Susan Viator.
Learning
through play an "easy option" - says Labour
By Tania Kent. Socialists in UK oppose the restrictive National
Curriculum for under fives that is proposed by the Labour government.
Raising
Readers At Home
To a homeschooling parent, there are few academic issues more
unsettling than a ten-year-old non-reader. By Paula Harper-Christensen.
Reading:
Slow and Gentle
To all of you with late readers, hang in there. You are doing
the best thing you possibly can by homeschooling them. Stay gentle
and keep the naysayers at large. You too will get to share your
own successful late reader story some day. And when you do, you'll
wonder what all the fuss was about. By Annette MacKay
Will
They Ever Read?
I promise you this: If your daughter lives in a house where other
people read frequently to her and to themselves, and reading
materials such as books and magazines are available to her, she
will learn to read and enjoy it. By Carol Narigon, HEM N/D01.
Teaching Tips
ABC Club: For PreK and Early Elementary Homeschoolers
Our homeschool group had a great time with a year-long ABC Club. Kids from age 3 to age 6, 7, and even 8 were able to have fun on equal footing whether they had already begun reading or didn't know the alphabet yet. By Carma Paden.
By Jove,
I Think He's Got It!
Taylor turns twelve this year and I can finally say without any
reservations, without a moment's hesitation, without any words
of explanation - he is reading. He is reading! Robin Ohlgren-Evans,
HEM.
Dads
in Homeschooling: Reading Aloud and Bedtime Stories
One significant thing Dad can do for his family and homeschool
is reading aloud and telling stories to his children at their
bedtime. A Christian perspective, but this advice holds true
for all homeschool dads.
Difficulties
with Reading
What mystifies many parents is where and why the reading process
breaks down. Although, problems may occur in any area, decoding,
comprehension, or retention, the root of most reading problems,
in the view of many experts, is decoding. Misunderstood Minds,
PBS.
The
Effectiveness of Synthetic Phonics
How to use magnetic letters to teach young children to read at
the phoneme level, that is, to read the word "cat"
in two parts: "cuh" "at."
Great Read Alouds
Marty Layne spent a lot of time reading to her children when they were young. Our children learned at home. The books to them and that they read on their own formed a large part of their curriculum.
Helping
Your Child Learn to Read
Teaching and learning are not mysteries that can only happen
in school. They also happen when parents and children do simple
things together. By Bernice Cullinan and Brod Bagert.
How
Children Learn to Read
A three-part article excerpted from the Home School Source Book,
Third Edition, by Jean and Donn Reed.
Learning
to Read and Spell
This column will focus on a little recognized, but absolutely
necessary skill for both reading and writing: the ability to
retain letters and numbers in your mind. This skill is called
image symbols, or "symbol imagery." By Barbara Phillips.
Linking
Literature With Learning
Young people are thoughtful human beings who can, and will, study,
question, think about, and discuss the broadest possible range
of perspectives on various topics.
Reading
For Information
While your child may be highly motivated to read about a unit
topic, it can help to give them these clues to interpreting what
the author is writing.
Taking
a Look At Vision Skills
I've met many other parents, however, whose children suffered
greatly, but who were eventually fortunate to discover that they
simply had vision skill difficulties that could be easily remedied.
By Lillian Jones.
About Writing,
too
Making
and Writing Words Using Letter Patterns
One of the more innovative and popular approaches to word-recognition
instruction is Making Words, an activity developed by Pat and
Jim Cunningham.
Activities
Born Thinker
Animated Shockwave games for learning to print letters and numbers,
telling time, and early arithmetic skills.
Bry-Back Manor
Pre-reading activity sheets for non-readers, to print out directly
from the web.
Kid Sparkz Preschool Themes
Collection of worksheets on multiple topics. Some games, some coloring pages. Story starters. Educational skills.
Kindersite
Games
Games for children ages 2-7. Most can be enjoyed by those who
can't read or are in the early stages.
Letter of the
Week
Brightly Beaming Resources was created by me, Katrina Lybbert,
as an online resource for parents and educators of young children.
I have homeschooled all of my children from birth, and have created
this site from my experiences teaching my children at home.
Stairway
to Reading
One of the "right tools" that you can use with your
child. The Society for Quality Education is pleased to provide
this valuable resource to you at no charge. This is a one-on-one
remedial reading program for students of any age who have already
received some reading instruction but who are struggling with
reading. Lessons in pdf format.
Stepping
Stones to Learning
Simple activities (no purchase or download required!) that will
allow you to help your young child prepare for structured learning
later on. From Innova.
Phonics vs Whole
Language
Reading
Instruction: Finding a Balance
By Mark B. Thogmartin, HEM, on the origins of the phonics vs.
literature-based reading instruction debate, which shows no signs
of ending.
Reading
Instruction Series
Karl Bunday has some real useful advice for parents helping their
children to read: use a combination of phonics and real-life
"whole language," not the type of one-or-the-other
programs used in schools.
Research on
Learning to Read and Spell
Ehri provides a glimpse of her experiences conducting research
on word reading processes in beginning readers for over 20 years.
Resources
Books
on Reading Instruction
Karl Bunday's extensive list of "How to teach reading at
home" and "Theory and Practice of Reading Instruction"
books, with commentary.
Grow
A Reader
Strategies and sets of booklists for encouraging young readers,
infancy through age twelve. From KidBibs.
International Reading
Association
Their online bookstore offers scores of the best, yet inexpensive,
resources for preparing you, the parent/teacher, on reading strategies.
ReadWriteThink
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality
practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Starfall
A learn-to-read website offered free as a public service. We
also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that
can be used with the website or separately.
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