10 Best Books For Kindergarteners 2018

10 Best Books For Kindergarteners 2018

Hey everyone today I'm finally going to be doing 10 Best Books For Kindergarteners 2018 for children  a recommended reads for children now that was a few.

1. The Kindergartener’s Handbook.

This book develops language and reading skills using more than 300 words that every kid should know.
One of my favorite parts of the book is #19 (Get ready for school). The morning always seems like a rush.

Simple words are used to help children read on their own, and more complicated words are presented to help them expand their vocabulary. Vibrant colors and images are designed to keep the attention of children. This book will help your child learn a variety of important concepts before first grade.

Covers a wide variety of subject. 

1) Alphabet - Upper and lower case
2) Vowels - Short and long sounds
3) Numbers - 0 to 20
4) Numbers by ten - 30 to 100
4) Less and More - Identifying which square has more or less objects
5) Patterns - Completing the pattern
6) Shapes - Match a silhouette of each shape with an object
7) Colors - 18 different color names
8) Colors - Identifying colors in objects
9) Rhymes - Matching 2 words that rhyme
10) Rhymes - Matching 3 words that rhyme
11) Habitat - Pictures of animals next to environments they live in
12) The 5 Senses - Match senses with objects
13) Days of the Week - Monday to Sunday
14) Months of the Year - What kids do each month
15) Time of Day - Matches activities with the time of day
16) Seasons - Shows the same tree in different seasons
17) Weather - Outfits to wear in different kinds of weather
18) Chores - 5 big chores that kids can do
19) Get Ready for School - 8 steps to get ready for school
20) Come Home from School - 8 steps to do after school
21) The activity that tests what you learned in the book

2. First Little Readers. 

Simple sentences and pictures.

Jumpstart reading success with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level B. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just one or two lines of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence. Includes a tip-filled parent guide. A great value!
Includes these 25 titles:
1. What Jumps?
2. In My Pocket
3. What do Monsters Eat?
4. Animal Crackers
5. Farm Twins
6. The Missing Monster
7. My Meatball
8. Growing Up
9. I Wish I Were a Bird
10. Tiny Things
11. Gingerbread Boy
12. What Flies?
13. Bigger
14. I Like Socks
15. Meet My Baby Brother
16. Come Over
17. Party Shapes
18. The Wheels on the Bus
19. Cloud Pictures
20. Ice Cream Scoops
21. Draw a Cat
22. What Grows on Trees?
23. Halloween
24. Great Hair
25. Clean Up, Clean Up! For use with Grades PreK-2.

3. Books for Kindergarteners.

4. Learning Workbooks by Homework Helper for Kindergarteners Lot of 4 NEW

5.Simple Dot to Dot for Kindergarteners

6. What I Like

7. May I Please Have a Cookie?

 Very easy for a 4 year old to follow along.

8.Pete the Cat: Scuba-Cat

9. I Like Bugs

10. Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp

  What your favorite children's books?

Japan's independent kids I The Feed

 Japan's independent kids I The Feed. Japanese people are known for their intelligence politeness and Welman. 

why is this nation so unique and different from the rest of the world it seems we found the answer they have an incredibly cool education system and unique teaching methods watch till the end there's a small but brilliant bonus for you.

 let's start with a unique Japanese method in the schools for developing creativity and kids.

1. Nameless Paints.

 we believe that the whole world needs to adopt it's called nameless paints. Japanese designers named you Sookie mi and a Yami Motegi created an unusual set to teach kids colors and painting this fantastic set won the 2012 Tokyo design award let's see how it works nameless paints includes ten tubes that don't have color names such as yellow blue or green instead there are only spots of a particular color or colors on

Each tube are also different sizes the designers aim is to change the way kids think and learn they want children to understand what shady will get if they make certain colors

For instance, a child looks at the tube with two spots pink and blue he doesn't know what color hides inside. He squeezes the tube and gets purple color so as a result the kid learns that the same amounts of pink and blue paints create purple here's another example a tube with a big blue spot and a small pink one it means if  you mix a small amount of the pink color and a large amount of the blue color they  get dark blue color interesting right. 

Each tube hides a particular color inside pink yellow blue purple red dark green dark blue orange light green and black  however to get one of these shades the child should think about which colors created as a result they learn how to create new colors and how to mix them it's an easy and fun way to understand the color theory recent.

2. Free thinking.

Studies have shown that free thinking is an attribute that a person can acquire over time and the schools play the most important part in developing creativity 

Now here's the bonus 10 brilliant features of the Japanese education system the whole world needs to adopt the success of the Japanese culture is very simple they put a lot of effort and time in the education system trying to make it not only useful but also fun.

3. One manner before knowledge.

One manner before knowledge in Japanese schools students don't take any exams until they reach grade four the age of ten  the goal for the first three years of school is not to judge the child's knowledge but to establish good manners and to develop their character children are taught to respect other people and to be gentle with animals and nature 

They also learn how to be generous compassionate and empathetic besides this the kids are taught qualities like grit self-control and justice. 

4. Academic year.

The academic year starts on April 1st while most schools in the world begin their academic year in September or October in Japan it is April that marks the start of the academic and business calendar the first day of school often coincides with one of the most beautiful natural phenomena the time of cherry blossom 

The academic year is divided into three trimesters April 1st till July 20th  September 1st till December 26th and January 7th to March 25th.

Japanese students get six weeks of holidays during the summer they also have two-week breaks in winter and spring. 

5. Students have to clean the classrooms.

Three students clean the school themselves. In Japanese schools, students have to clean the classrooms cafeterias and even toilets all by themselves most Japanese schools do not employ janitors or custodians but cleaning students are divided into small groups and assigned tasks that they rotate throughout the year the Japanese. 

Education system believes that requiring students to clean up after themselves teaches them to work in a team and help each other besides spending their own time and effort sweeping mopping and wiping makes kids respect their work and the work of others.

6. Eat healthily.

For school lunch is provided on a standardized menu the Japanese education system does its best to ensure that the students eat healthy and balanced meals in public elementary and junior high school the lunch for students is cooked according to a standardized menu developed not only by qualified chefs but also by healthcare professionals all classmates eat in their classroom together with the teacher this helps build positive teacher-student.

7. After-school workshops.

Relationship 5 after-school workshops are very popular to get into a good junior high school most Japanese students enter a preparatory school or attend private after-school workshops the classes in these schools are held in the evenings seeing groups of small kids returning from their extracurricular courses late in the evening is common in Japan.

 Japanese students have an 8 hour school day but apart from that they study even during the holidays and on weekends 

It's no wonder that the students in this country almost never repeat grades primary lower secondary or secondary school.

8. Students learn Japanese calligraphy.

Students learn Japanese calligraphy and poetry Japanese calligraphy or Shoto involves dipping a bamboo brush and ink and using it to write hieroglyphs on rice paper for Japanese people Shoto is an art that is no less popular than traditional painting haiku, on the other hand, is a form of poetry that uses simple expressions to convey deep emotions to readers both classes teach children to respect their culture. 

And centuries-old traditions seven students have to wear a school uniform almost all junior high schools require their students to wear school uniforms while some schools have their attire traditional Japanese school 

9. Uniform.

Uniform consists of a military-style four boys and a sailor outfit for girls the uniform policy is intended to remove social barriers among students and get them into a working mood besides wearing school uniforms helps to promote a sense of community among the children eight the school attendance rate is about ninety nine point ninety nine percent probably all of us have played truant at least once in our life however Japanese 

Students don't skip classes nor do they arrive late for school or over around 91 percent of pupils in Japan reported that they never were only in some classes ignored what to teach a lecture how many countries can boast such statistics 9 a single test decides the students futures at the end of high school  Japanese students have to take an exam that determines their future 

10. A student can choose a college.

A student can choose one college they would like to go to and that college has a particular score requirement if a student doesn't reach that score they probably don't go to college the competition is very high only 76 percent of school graduates continue their education after high school it's no wonder that the period of  preparation for entrance to higher education institutions is nicknamed examination hell 10 college years are the  in life having gone through examination hell Japanese students usually take a little break in this Country college is.

Often considered the best years of a person's life sometimes Japanese people call this period a vacation before work now what is the education system like in your country.

 and what would an ideal education system? look like share your thoughts in the comments below. 

Kindergarten Cirriculum | Free Letter Tracing Roads

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Kindergarten Cirriculum 

hi everyone  I'm going to be doing a post review of  K for kindergarten curriculum and actually I should probably rename it from K 4 to K 5 because it's a full kindergarten curriculum now and so if you'd like to take a closer look at what's all included in this and what it looks like please stick around we'll take a closer look.

Okay so we're gonna take a little bit closer look inside my K for kindergarten curriculum and as I mentioned when I first started this I called it k4 because it was really kind of it meant to be an intermediate program that was sort of for kids who were four years old who were past preschool level activities.

But not quite ready for kindergarten and so that's kind of how it started out and then as I went I added more and more and more to it and now at this point it's really a full-on I would say k5 kindergarten program but you could use it for four or five-year-olds if they've gone through my letter of the week program first so let's take a closer look at what is all included and how I organized all this because it's a lot of material.

It might be a little difficult for you to read this but this is kind of an overview of all the different skills and whatnot covered in my k4 kindergarten curriculum it covers everything that you need for kindergartens which is basically you're gonna be doing more handwriting this year you're going to be doing more numbers you're gonna do beginning math you're gonna continue working on letter sounds and doing more reading as opposed to just learning the letter and what they say like my letter of the week curriculum there are lots of games and activities in here to reinforce phonics and reading beginning reading there's also because like I said beginning math and counting some addition some beginning subtraction and then lots of word building activities.

In here there's a ton of games and crafts just like my letter of the week and so really really there's a lot of things that are included in this curriculum so what you'll get when you buy it is you're gonna get the day we left some plans which I'll show you in a minute and then you're going to get all of the principles that you need for here's all the math ones they're not the math ones but here's some of the math ones there's beginning adding and subtracting there's number order and this goes from you know number order from zero to100 but then it also goes through all of the different skips counting as well there's skip counting and number cards here as well then there's fun number of mazes on there's calendar activities as well so they're going to be keeping track of the calendars and number writing and such like that there's also a ton of beginning reading and phonics practices where they're finding vowels in words locating. 

You know which picture which vowel sound it starts with or as they get more advanced through the curriculum they'll be doing the beginning blends and identifying those as well there's missing letter games there's letter hunt worksheets sight word worksheets phonics practice and all that kind of stuff and then of course there's all kinds of handwriting practice numbers letters review sheets they're going to be practicing their name and all those kind of things.

So and then last but not least there's also some more sight words spelling they're gonna do it's like  a beginning spelling because you're you know you're in kindergarten here and they're still really learning how to do the phonics of it all and then there's a ton of review games and extra practice and beginning reading books and that kind of thing that are going to be covered in here so there's a lot of stuff that's covered.

This is a full 34-week kindergarten curriculum and just like my preschool curriculum this also comes with an assessment and again I do not share these results with my children I just

simply give them assessments so that I know where they are and what I need to work on with them</font> and all that kind of thing so that they're ready to move on to the next phase there's also sight word assessments in here so that you can kind of know which sight words they've gotten a grasp on and which ones you still need to work on it as well and then, of course, like my other one it also includes daily lesson plans and these are in this binder for the fair that.

I went to so is easy to show people but I actually have this spiral-bound just so that it's easy for me to kind of flip from page to page and this is laid out similar to my letter of the week this one is happens to be on week nine and again it has Monday through Friday across the top here's kind of your activities where you're going to be doing your calendar and your date and any review stuff that you've learned so far we continue to review all year long they're going to be working on their memory verse up here

Aand then doing their daily learning notebook which I'll show you in just a minute and then on Monday it goes through and it show it tells you exactly what to do and there's subjects down the sights you kind of know what you're working on so, for example, it starts off with calendar handwriting sight words math phonics art and then reading and those are going to be pretty much the same throughout the week not the same activities but you'll do them in the same order you can swap around the order if you want to do.

Something else first or whatever it's you know pretty flexible but I do suggest doing at least these activities

listed in here each day if you want todo a four-day week instead of a five-day week you can kind of combine in some of these activities to make it fit your schedule a little bit better as well.

So it's pretty easy to follow it just tells you the name of the file which I'll show you in a second and then what to kind of do with that worksheet so the instructions I think are fairly easy but of course we have any questions you're always welcome to email me and then at the beginning of the notebook it tells you any additional resources that I think you might enjoy these are all optional there none of them are required so they're just some extra things that we had fun with but the curriculum as a whole stand is a standalone you don't need to buy a bunch of extra stuff to go with it all right so they do number practice where they're writing writing.

Tthe words and then finding the number down here there's also quite a bit of number writing practice and there's still some speak some beginning just pencil skills practice on there there's also lots of letter writing review and then upper and lower case and then there's also quite a bit of number writing practice and so this is all included in the curriculum of course and then there's some blank pages for you if you want to do that there's also quite a bit of reading practice in here and so they're gonna do things like you know associating just the beginning sound so

And there's instructions on here but you're gonna look at the first row and then circle anything that starts with that same sound as letter you see there and then Ave they progress they'll be 

listening for the middle sounds so for example in the word box the Vala sound as uh-oh so you would stay

with circle oh and I have these in page protectors right now but for the curriculum I actually just print them on regular copy paper and then they can use a pencil or crayon or card pencil or whatever if you want to save these and reuse them you certainly could do that put them in a page protector. 

 I hope you enjoyed this kindergarten cirriculum  and I will see you next time.

How to teach kids to READ - FAST : 5 STEPS

How to teach kids to READ - FAST : 5 STEPS

Hi friends today I will tell you 5 steps to make your child read effortlessly using the phonics rules.

Here are 5 steps to teaching reading techniques:

Step 1- Read, read and read.

Even if your child is only 1 year old and you think she doesn’t understand the books, you should

start reading aloud to her as it’s a wonderful way to start giving stimulation which will help in the coming years.

Step 2-Teach alphabets phonetically

Learning the sound of letters are most important to develop a phonemic awareness That is /a/, /b/, /c/, /d/, /e/ and so on If you want me to make a full video on phonics sound then comment below.

Step 3- Teach CVC words, that is short vowel words following phonics rule.

As cat should be taught like /c/ /a/ /t/, but not like c a t.

So,
 /d/ / e/ /n/    den

/b/ /i/ /g/    big

/t/ /o/ /p/ top

/j/ /u/ /g/ jug

Learning word families are important. So the child can see a pattern while reading If the child can read cat then she an easily decode bat, rat, mat as it rhymes and only one letter is changing

 You can pause this video to get the CVC words list or check Grey Matterzzz facebook page to download this word list.

Tips

1. Try to show words with pictures

2. explain their meaning so kids have a fun time while learning

3. Introduce some activities like fill in the blanks, match the pictures to make the child practice these words

a, e and I CVC words are a little bit confusing for the young brain so patience and persistence is the key.

4. Review regularly, at least 5 days in a week.

5. Please don’t push your child. First few days may seem harder then the child will start decoding the sounds by herself.

Step 4 Now it’s time to start the High-frequency words or Sight Words

It’s a good idea to introduce 5 sight words with 5 related sentences each week. That way it will be easier for kids to memorize.

Tips

1. Make flash cards of sight words and show it often to your kid

2. Try to make charts of sight words and hang it in your kid’s room.

3. Try to point out words in your surrounding.

that is magazines, boxes of foods and drinks, billboards of shops etc to maximize the learning process.

Step5- You can start this step with step 4

Encourage your child to read by her own pointing out each word with a finger.

I find Leapfrog short vowel books, BOB books and Usborne Phonics Readers books very useful. You might consider buying LeapReader as it spells out the words phonetically while reading.

If you are in India and couldn’t get these books then try Ladybird Level 1 books and Usborne Phonics Books.

If you cannot get any of these, don’t worry, just visit your local library and borrow books having small sentences like this with lots of pictures.

Last tip

You can try these apps and websites to make learning fun for your kid

Though researchers now recommend less screen time for kids, but it’s a better option than most of the cartoons kids watch every day. Most of these apps are free and works both on iOS and Android Have a wonderful week.

7 Things Every Dad Should Teach His Daughter

7 Things Every Dad Should Teach His Daughter

Today we will talk about the different points we will cover seven life lessons that every dad can teach his daughter we have a ton of great info for dads with that out of.

I wanted to talk to you about some very important life lessons let's get started.

1. capable of solving problems yourself. 

 You are capable of solving problems yourself you don't need to depend on anyone especially a boy whether it's for emotional financial or any other support you are totally capable of taking care of yourself and being self-sufficient.

2. You are perfect the way you.

are every person is unique and perfect in their own way nobody including your family friends the media or anyone else gets to dictate what perfection is you are perfect the way you are. 

3. Mystery and the unknown.

That the girls have to show everything to everyone all the time but of course that's not true. 

And you need to teach her that you need to teach her to respect who she is she's enough as she is and teach her that there's power in mystery and the unknown.

4. your views are just as valuable as anyone else.

Stand your ground you have a right to believe whatever you want to protect and defend yourself as well as those you love and your views are just as valuable as anyone else.

5.  helping people.

 Be empathetic learn to put yourself in somebody else's shoes this might mean helping people or simply

understanding somebody else's perspective empathy is powerful.

6. learn how to say no for others.

Respect yourself and others know your Worth and learn how to say no for others you may not always agree with someone but allow them to express their views. 

7. She's beautiful 

She needs to hear you let her know that she's beautiful now when she's younger this might be a little bit easier because at that point it's mostly external beauty that we're discussing her hair is beautiful the dresses.

Maybe she has a tiara she's beautiful as a as a young little girl in your life maybe you do nails together may together all those fun things you can do and then as she gets older you teach her and let her know that she's beautiful inside as well it's not all about the external it's about the internal.

You need to tell her about the beauty of becoming an incredible confident amazing young woman who's growing into a good person.

 We want to hear from you what are some life lessons that you think are valuable leave your feedback in the comment section below.

Magic | learn to read english

 

learn to read english

Today I'm going to talk to you about topics in learning to read English. Almost every school from at least first grade on, requires students to read about 20 -30 minutes each night. learn to read english .

Now getting your child to actually sit down and read the book can often be a challenge and I hear from parents all the time that it usually culminates in a battle involving bribery, threats, pleading, and all kinds of drama. There are some things you can do to avoid getting to this point.

1. The first one is to model your own reading.

 If your child sees you reading and enjoying a book, he's going to be much more likely to sit down and do it. It's a great way to avoid a do as a say and not as I do scenario.

And children who grow up in a household where reading is the desired activity are much more likely to be independent readers on their own.

2. The next suggestion is to make sure your child

has a designated reading place. That could be in bed, or a special chair, or on the sofa, or just anywhere in your home where he feels comfortable reading.

You can even have a discussion around that, discussing where you enjoy reading. You might have a special chair, and you can talk about how that feels comfortable to you and its a place where you can really concentrate and create a quiet bubble for reading for yourself.

3. Another important tip for enforcing reading

time at home and making it a pleasant thing to do is to eliminate possible distractions. That means turning off the TV, and turning off the computer, and also making sure that noisy siblings are out of the way and quiet, which I know is easier said than done.

It's also completely acceptable to provide a small bribe or gimmick to your child if you think that will motivate them to start reading.

I recently gave my son a book light and he actually thought it was fantastic and he looks forward every night to getting into bed at bedtime and pulling the covers up over his head, turning on his book light, and reading for about a half an hour.

So that's actually worked out really nicely, and it felt like a treat for him and it made it something fun to do, and he's also told me that it just creates silence around him where its just him and his book.

One gimmick that I would advise against, and I've seen a few of these, are these bookmarks that have a digital clock on them and you can actually set the clock for the 20 or 30 minutes that is required for reading.

The problem with this is that its the only thing your child's going to pay attention to and they will watch the minutes tick down until the required time is up.

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So there's never going to be an opportunity for that child to really dig into the book and have the pleasure of losing himself in learn to read english a story.

The Importance of Early Childhood Development

The Importance of Early Childhood Development 

Early childhood development (ECD) is a critical phase in a child's life that spans from birth to around the age of eight. During this time, a child undergoes significant physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth. The importance of early childhood development cannot be overstated, as it lays the foundation for a child's future well-being and success. Here are some key reasons why ECD is so vital:

1. Brain Development: 

The early years are a period of rapid brain development. A child's brain forms critical neural connections and pathways during this time, which serve as the basis for all future learning and development. Stimulation and enrichment during this phase are crucial for cognitive development.

2. Social and Emotional Development: 

Early childhood is when children learn to form relationships, express emotions, and develop social skills. Positive interactions and nurturing environments contribute to healthy emotional and social development.

3. Language and Communication: 

The ability to communicate effectively is a foundational skill for learning. Early childhood is when children start to acquire language and communication skills. Exposure to language-rich environments is essential for language development.

4. School Readiness: 

ECD programs help children become ready for formal schooling. Children who have participated in high-quality ECD programs tend to perform better in school, have higher graduation rates, and are more likely to pursue higher education.

5. Cognitive Skills:

 Early childhood education fosters cognitive skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity. These skills are essential for academic success and lifelong learning.

6. Physical Health:

 Proper nutrition, health care, and physical activity during early childhood are vital for physical health and development. Healthy habits established early in life can lead to better long-term health outcomes.

7. Socialization:

 ECD programs provide opportunities for children to interact with their peers. This socialization helps children develop important social skills, empathy, and a sense of belonging.

8. Early Identification and Intervention:

 Early childhood education and development programs can identify developmental delays or issues early on, allowing for timely intervention and support.

9. Reducing Inequality: 

Access to quality early childhood development programs can help reduce inequalities and disparities in education and life outcomes. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds often benefit the most from high-quality ECD programs.

10. Parental Involvement:

 ECD programs often encourage and educate parents on how to support their child's development. This involvement enhances the child's development and strengthens the parent-child relationship.

11. Economic and Societal Benefits:

 Investing in early childhood development has long-term economic and societal benefits. It can lead to increased productivity, reduced crime rates, and improved overall well-being in society.

12. Preventing Future Issues:

 Positive early childhood experiences can mitigate the risk of future behavioral, emotional, and developmental problems.

In recognition of the significance of early childhood development, many countries have implemented policies and programs to support young children and their families, including preschool education, parental support, and healthcare initiatives. High-quality early childhood development can have a profound and lasting impact on a child's life, setting the stage for a bright and successful future.

In the brain of newborn child neurons rapidly begin connecting and while this continues forever most if it is complete by age 2. this is the basis of early childhood development.

ECD spans from the moment of conception until the beginning a primary school and encompasses four areas:

1. Physical well-being,

2. Health and nourishment cognitive development,

3. Memory and IQ, linguistic development, a child's vocabulary. 

4. Ability to read and write socio-emotional development, a child's perseverance and ability to work with others.

This is the ECD, we already know four things that work. In Argentina, improving maternal health reduced low birth weight by 23 percent. In Guatemala, better childhood nutrition improved adult test scores by nine percent.

Twenty years later, parental stimulation increased earnings by 25 percent in Jamaica and it reduced crime by 30 percent and in Mozambique, a pre-school education improved cognitive development by 87 percent. 

These ECD investments build strong bodies and minds. ECD also reduces inequality. In the United States if all low-income children went to good preschools disparities in readiness for primary school would drop,24 percent between white and black children and 35 percent between white and Hispanic children.

ECD levels the playing field and it makes economic sense too by cutting off problems early and preventing higher costs down the road.

Yet sadly not enough ECD investments are being made. In developing countries ten to twenty percent of pregnant women are malnourished, one in four kids suffer from stunted growth that's 165 million kids and throughout the world access to preschool education is dramatically dependent upon wealth.

In high-income countries, eighty-four percent of children have access to preschool; In middle-income countries, only 53 percent do; and in low-income countries only seventeen percent do. So why haven't we used what works to make children happy and healthy around the world? Four reasons:

1. Lack of financing, simply put, not enough money, low capacity.

2. Quality, schools, and governments can't always manage things the way they need to or don't always view ECD as their responsibility.

3. Gaps in knowledge, we know that some things work, but we don't always know exactly how.

4. insufficient political support it takes a long time to see a return on investment when focusing on the youngest among us.

So what will it take? 

Leveraging the private sector using things like social impact bonds to help the private sector support children, make profits and develop a skilled workforce for the future;

1. Measuring quality, developing widely used indicators for young children so we can learn more about what works.

2. Conducting more research and establishing learning networks.

3. sharing what we know through study tours, conferences and more.

4. advocacy taking the message to business and others who can help.

By taking these actions and scaling up interventions that we know work we can make ECD work resulting in happy healthy children, more productive societies and a better world for everyone.

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How To Read With Your Child

The importance of reading aloud: Tips for reading to children

mommy, please read me a book in a moment;

We'll learn why reading is so important hi this is tips for reading to children parent one of the most important skills a parent can teach a child is how to communicate how to speak listen and read by reading aloud to your child you are teaching them all of these skills reading to young.

Children also expand our vocabulary improves memory and allows them to practice listening skills read to your child from a variety of sources such as cereal boxes magazines road signs and books by doing this you are teaching them the importance of the written word try making books from cardboard and pasting pictures from magazines in them.

And encourage your child to tell a story about the pictures kids love these remember as a parent you are your child's first and best teacher for more information on parenting your young child.

Reading aloud with your child is an important part of their education. It teaches them how to speak fluently...listen carefully...and eventually...the ability to read by themselves. 

Here are 5 tips to make the time you spend reading with your child more effectively.

Number 1.

Show them the cover Before reading to your child show them the cover of the book and ask them questions about it. This is a great way to engage their interest and work their imagination.

Number 2.

Test your child’s interest and progress. Children can be easily distracted. To keep them focused on ask questions such as how they think the characters are feeling? 

What do they think will happen next? 

This helps to keep them interested and tests their predictive skills.

Number 3.

Check newly acquired skills. Stories contain diversified vocabulary. Whenever new words pop up make them guess the meaning by using picture clues. Break down sentences they do not understand and constantly ask a simple question.

Number 4.

Make it engaging. Children tend to be more attentive when the story comes to life. They need to differentiate between characters to follow the plot. So using separate voices and nuancing lines is a good trick. 

Number 5.

Get feedback from your child. At the end of the book ask your child what they enjoyed or disliked about the story and explain why. Asking these types of questions improves their oral fluency.

It also encourages them to form opinions and gives them the confidence to express their preferences more. Anyone of these 5 tips should engage your child with reading and hopefully, start them on a journey. 

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• 10 Things Every Dad Should Teach His Son
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Magic 13 Steps To Teaching Your Child To Read | Spelling And Phonics Easily

 13 Steps To Teaching Your Child To Read | Spelling And Phonics  Easily

it's a chance to carve out a time when we're not on our phones, but we're entirely focused on our kids. Or we pull up alongside them and read and talk together.

Even when they're not three or four, but they're eight, ten, twelve, a teenager and they might not be as inclined to share so much with us anymore.

1. Start Early 

Start Early Research has show that it is the early childhood years where a child begins to develop the neurological pathways that they will use for reading for the rest of their life.

Hence I encourage parents to start thinking about ways to engage their children in looking at and listening to books as early as possible.

2. Read to your child 

What better way to teach a child to love reading than to read to them. This will teach a child that reading is an enjoyable skill.

It is much more than memorising letters and words, but it is about discovering a new world if interesting things that are contained in the pages of their books!

3. Be a good example by reading in front of your child.

If there is one thing I have noticed about having children it is, if you want your child to do something you have to model it to them. It is amazing how much kids love to copy what their parents do.

 If you want your children to value reading, show them that you value reading and they will follow.

4. Make books accessible

Pre-schoolers love to explore just about ANYTHING they can get their hands on!

Why not let them explore their books. Have board books on hand so your child can

play with their books without worrying about tearing pages.

And put the books low on the bookshelf so they can get to them easily.

5. Develop Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes--in spoken words. Before children learn to read print, they need to become more aware of how the sounds in words work.

Parents can actually begin teaching phonemic awareness at anywhere between 1 and 2 years old.

6. As they say, Learning to hear is the secret

to learning to read! Teach Synthetic Phonics Synthetic phonics (UK) or blended phonics (US), also known as inductive phonics, is a method of teaching reading which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.

- Wiki definition Phonetics is especially important because it builds neurological pathways that promote fluent reading now and into the future.

7. Practice Decoding

Decoding is the process of sounding out new words. When decoding your child uses the skills developed through phonemic awareness and synthetic phonics to break down words into the individual letters and sounds that make up the word.

Teaching your child to read by developing Phonemic Awareness, then Synthetic Phonics followed by practice decoding has been shown by research repeatedly to produce the best long term results.

8. Avoid Using Flash Cards

Flash card can be very tempting for many parents and may even seem like a logical starting point.

However, research has shown that a flashcards approach (also known as sight words) can actually cause reading difficulties in the future.

The reason is simple. It teaches children to memorise words as a whole picture. And does not teach them how to read a word based on the letters that are in it.

9. Strategies for Reading Aloud to Young Children

reading aloud gives kids a special kind of access to the transformative power of story, and the experience of what real reading is all about, which is to deeply understand, to think, to learn and discuss big ideas about the world, about the lives of others and about ourselves.

When teachers and parents read aloud, we do the decoding work. We deal with the print and the tricky vocabulary and words, and we free kids to think.

So they can use all their brain energy to imagine the story and learn new information. So all children listening have access to the amazing reading party happening inside the building.

And we want kids to get in the building and get to the party and stay there. Even while they're still strengthening their decoding or comprehension or vocabulary muscles in books, they can read on their own.

Because even when kids are reading on their own, reading aloud to them has a tremendous impact on their independent reading lives.

10. Rhyming

Rhyming is a great way to develop phonemic awareness as well as a general enjoyment of reading.

The emphasis of word similarities can help teach a child that words need to be read based on the letters that are in it and not based on words shapes (sight words). It is also just FUN!

11. Ask questions about the story

If your child is either reading to you or you are reading to your child make sure you ask questions during and after the story to encourage good comprehension.

This will encourage your child to both read the individual words and also comprehend the wider sentence that they are reading.

This is important for developing a better enjoyment of reading. It is one thing to read a letter and a word but another thing to enjoy a whole story.

12. Find a good reading program!

Often the hardest part of teaching a child to read is just knowing where to start! Finding a reading program that provides you with all the tools and resources you need will give you a great head start.

But be careful because there are some very ordinary programs out there! Check out my “how to choose the right program” resource on my website to make sure you find the right one.

13.HAVE FUN

Finally has fun. We want our children to be able to read as well as value reading now and into their future. 

I hope this has been helpful to you. Happy Reading!
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How to teach a reading skills lesson

How to teach a reading skills lesson 

We often divide reading into three stages:

pre-reading, 

while reading,

and post-reading.

In this article, we're going to look at some tips for each stage and how you might use them with a typical reading lesson. For any subject, we all have different levels of background knowledge and experience.

And when we read a new text on this subject, we use this knowledge and experience to help us understand the new text.

This text is about collections. Almost all of your students will be aware of this hobby. Some may have relatives or friends who collect things.

Steps To Teaching Your Child To Read 

Some may have collections themselves. Before we read a new text, it's useful to activate this

knowledge and experience.

1. Use pictures and some simple questions

Use pictures and some simple questions. For example, what objects can you see in the pictures?

Where do you think the people are from?

Do you, or does anyone you know, collect anything?

2. write key vocabulary on the board

As students share this information, write key vocabulary on the board.

We read a variety of things in our first language and always with a purpose.

For example, we read a recipe for information, or a magazine article for pleasure.

And for each purpose, the way we read can be different. Before you start reading a text, be clear about students' purpose for reading. For example, in this task, the purpose is to quickly identify the type of text; students don't need to read every word of the text.

In contrast, the purpose of the final activity is to find detailed information; students now need to read the text carefully to find specific words or phrases.

3. Reading while listening to a text is useful at all levels.

First, the audio of a text is an opportunity for students to hear the pronunciation features of a naturally connected text.

Second, listening while reading helps to develop students' fluency skills. It forces students to

read without hesitating - even if they don't understand every word.

4. Stop after each paragraph or section

It can be challenging to understand texts in one reading. So, instead of reading the whole text, ask students to stop after each paragraph or section.

Then, in pairs or small groups, ask them to recall what they have read so far. At lower levels, students can use their first language if necessary.

Needing to explain something aloud in this way is a useful way of encouraging comprehension.

What's more, students will often voluntarily re-read sections to each other during this exercise - to justify their explanations.

5. At the end of a reading lesson

At the end of a reading lesson, ask students for one thing that they found interesting in the text. Give them time to think of ideas and share an example of something you found interesting.

6.Homework

 For optional homework, suggest the students find out more about this, online -purely for their own interest.

7.Before the next lesson

Before the next lesson, look up something that you found interesting in the text. And in class, briefly

share what you learned. Ask if anyone else found out anything.

Don't be surprised if you get a 'no' at first; you may need to repeat this activity a few times before you get students to participate.