I thought we would start out slow and gradually introduce more learning into the day, but Little One just wants to get to it! She flicks through my plans in no time, and leaves me scrambling trying to get more for her to do. It's so exciting!
One of the things we did today was work on one of the readers. What's the Weather Like?, that comes with the Weather themed unit at Kinderplans. We printed off the pages, colored them together, made them into a book, and then read the book together. Later, when we had reading time, she asked me to read it to her again along with the library books that she had chosen to read. When Dad came home she read the book to him all by herself!
Tonight before she went to bed I suggested that she read a book to me and then I would read a book to her. One of the books that we got out of the library this week was All Fall Down by Helen Oxenbury. It is a book of few words and I thought it would be a great one to work on her being able to read all by herself. I read it to her the day we brought it home and the next day I typed up with words and printed off two copies, one to cut into strips and one to keep whole. Yesterday I helped her match the word strips to the book and we read them together. Then I showed her how they matched the words on the copy I printed and left whole and we read it again. I put the book, along with what I had printed off into a ziplock bag. She discovered that bag this afternoon and took it out and read the book to me with very little help, but she wasn't interested in matching the strips. Tonight this was the book she decided to read to me and she read it with no help at all!
I know that at this point some of it is simple memorization of what is on the pages based on the pictures. I also know, however, that some of it is actual reading because she is pointing out the words and correcting what she says based on the letters she sees. I just love watching her learn!
That's what on my mind today.
Showing posts with label Learning to Read. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Starting to Read
Little one read her very first sentence totally on her own today! She is 4 years old and I haven't really worried much about teaching her anything yet. I take advantage of opportunities that come up in the day but I have not been following any kind of structured plan. She has always loved books and being read to and pretending to read herself but today she actually read a sentence all by herself.
A while back a friend introduced me to the Learn to Read with phonics Starfall.com site and little one has been having fun with it for quite some time now. She's spent hours on the ABC alphabet Phonemic Awareness page. She often asked me to let her play on it and I'd set her up to play on my laptop at the kitchen table while I was busy doing kitchen chores. When I'd finish my chores I'd have to drive her away from the site because she wanted to stay on it. She really loved it, and I knew she was learning so I loved it too.
Today I decided to give the next level a try and introduced her to the Learn to Read section of the site. Instead of setting her up to go to it on her own I stayed by her to guide her a bit. She played the "an" and "at" parts in section 1. She loved it and did really well! I got her to read the words herself after she had completed it and she printed of the sheets that went with it and did those too. Then we decided to give the Zac the Rat book a try. I love how it is set up! Each page has a short sentence and you can click on each word to have it sounded out and then read. I guided her to ensure that she did them in the right order and after hearing each word read I got her to read it herself. After doing this for the first few pages she was noticing that some of the words were the same and she was starting to just read the words instead of clicking on them to hear them sounded out and read first! First it was just with a word or two but then she finally came to a page where she didn't bother to click on any of the words at all but just simply read the whole sentence! Of course we had to have a little high five celebration at that. I was so proud of her, and she was pretty proud of herself. She wanted to keep going on the site and try out some more but I didn't want to overload her so I just let her play on it on her own for a bit before finally talking her into leaving it for the day. We did print the Zac the Rat book and she wanted to read it tonight before bed. She couldn't remember a lot of it but that's okay. We'll probably play on the site again this week to refresh her memory. I will be following her lead and using this site as she shows an interest in it. I am certain it won't be long before she'll be zipping right along in her reading.
A while back a friend introduced me to the Learn to Read with phonics Starfall.com site and little one has been having fun with it for quite some time now. She's spent hours on the ABC alphabet Phonemic Awareness page. She often asked me to let her play on it and I'd set her up to play on my laptop at the kitchen table while I was busy doing kitchen chores. When I'd finish my chores I'd have to drive her away from the site because she wanted to stay on it. She really loved it, and I knew she was learning so I loved it too.
Today I decided to give the next level a try and introduced her to the Learn to Read section of the site. Instead of setting her up to go to it on her own I stayed by her to guide her a bit. She played the "an" and "at" parts in section 1. She loved it and did really well! I got her to read the words herself after she had completed it and she printed of the sheets that went with it and did those too. Then we decided to give the Zac the Rat book a try. I love how it is set up! Each page has a short sentence and you can click on each word to have it sounded out and then read. I guided her to ensure that she did them in the right order and after hearing each word read I got her to read it herself. After doing this for the first few pages she was noticing that some of the words were the same and she was starting to just read the words instead of clicking on them to hear them sounded out and read first! First it was just with a word or two but then she finally came to a page where she didn't bother to click on any of the words at all but just simply read the whole sentence! Of course we had to have a little high five celebration at that. I was so proud of her, and she was pretty proud of herself. She wanted to keep going on the site and try out some more but I didn't want to overload her so I just let her play on it on her own for a bit before finally talking her into leaving it for the day. We did print the Zac the Rat book and she wanted to read it tonight before bed. She couldn't remember a lot of it but that's okay. We'll probably play on the site again this week to refresh her memory. I will be following her lead and using this site as she shows an interest in it. I am certain it won't be long before she'll be zipping right along in her reading.
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