Reading to your child is one of the most important things you can do to help foster a life-long love of reading. Studies show that reading to your child is an essential component in providing a future academic advantage. These reading tips will encourage children of all ages to love reading and become lifelong readers!

Research has identified five skills that are essential for learning to read:

1. Phonemic Awareness: Being able to notice, understand, and work with the sounds in words.
2. Phonics: A method of teaching reading, based on sounding out letters to read words.
3. Fluency: Being able to read accurately and quickly.
4. Vocabulary: Knowing what words mean when we hear and read them levitra cijena.
5. Text Comprehension: Truly understanding what is read.

As a parent or caregiver, you play a critical role in helping children not only learn to read but develop a life-long love of reading. You can make reading a part of your child’s life by clicking on the links below and following the tips that are just right for your child’s age.

Hooked on Phonics programs can help. Designed with the assistance of leading educators to reflect the current research on how children learn best, our award-winning reading programs combine systematic instruction with plenty of confidence-building reading practice to ensure mastery of skills. The interactive lessons, fun skill-building activities, and high-interest stories and books appeal to all kinds of learners, helping you meet the diverse needs in your classroom. And they’re fun and easy to implement. Try them in your classroom and see for yourself how they turn the highly complex cognitive task of learning to read into an exciting and motivating endeavor – for you and your students!

Hooked on Phonics in the Classroom

Hooked on Phonics programs are based on authoritative research in the field, providing a balance of systematic instruction and fun activities. We crafted the scope and sequence of our programs with the guidance of specialists, teachers, and parents. The lessons, games, stories, and activities for all of our programs were created not only to reflect newly learned skills but also to engage and motivate students and get them excited about learning. Teachers across the country agree -the formula works!

Our mission in designing curriculum for our programs is for every student to achieve measurable progress during each lesson and to make it easy for them to achieve that goal. These important hints can help ensure success with the program:

Individual Pacing

Part of what makes Hooked on Phonics programs so successful is our commitment to meeting students’ individual needs. This curriculum is adaptable to accommodate students learning at different speeds. Feel free to tailor it to fit the needs and pacing of your students.

Mastery

It’s very important that students master each lesson before moving on. Each new lesson builds on the skills learned in the previous ones. Giving students the time and tools needed to master each lesson is key to achieving the greatest benefit from the program.

Remember these simple guidelines as you teach the Hooked on Phonics reading programs, and you and your students will enjoy measurable success each step of the way!

Developed by leading educators based on research on how children learn to read, each session takes just 20 minutes or less. Discover how more than 3 million children are getting better grades

Learn to read new words
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Put it all together with stories using words just learned.

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Phonics is a method of teaching reading, based on sounding out letters to read words. Let’s say that you learn the letter i makes the /i/ sound, and that the letter t makes the /t/ sound. And when you read these sounds together, /i/ /t/, you have it. You’ve just used phonics to read the word it.

Rag Minibook Activity

Here’s an easy activity you can do with your child using our phonics teaching method. In just 20 minutes, your child will be able to read a book all by himself by playing an easy flash card game and creating our free Learn to Read Minibook.

How to get started:

1. Make one flash card for each of the letters: r, a, g, s, d, c, t, p, n, and w, for a total of 10 cards. You can use index cards or just cut up a piece of plain paper.
2. Lay them on the table.
3. Help your child to put the cards together that form the words rag, sad, cat, pat, can, and wag. Call out the name of each letter and the sound it makes as you push the cards together.
4. Do this a few times until your child can do it all by himself.

Then print out our free mini-book:

Learn to Read Minibook Printable

To Assemble the Minibook:

1. Cut each page in half by cutting on the dotted line.
2. Stack all of the pages together with the cover on the front, followed by page 1, page 2, etc., until all of the pages are in order. Do not include the instructions.
3. Staple along the left side of the pages.
4. Finish the book by tracing all of the words with dotted lines.
5. Have your child color all of the pages.
6. Your child has already learned to read each word by playing the flash card game, so he is ready to read the book he just made all by himself!

Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read is full of activities just like this one, plus story books, workbooks, online games, flashcards, and much, much more. Check it out here.

Although there are no quick ways to teach children to read…

…it doesn’t have to be a difficult task. We’ll outline the basic skills children must master in order to learn to read and reading activities that provide meaningful practice.

The National Reading Panel’s (NPR) 2000 report identified five areas of reading instruction that must be addressed in order to teach children to read:

1. Phonemic Awareness: Being able to notice, understand, and work with the sounds in words.
2. Phonics: A method of teaching reading, based on sounding out letters to read words.
3. Fluency: Being able to read accurately and quickly.
4. Vocabulary: Knowing what words mean when we hear and read them.
5. Text Comprehension: Truly understanding what is read.

Today, let’s focus first on reading activities to build phonemic awareness.

How can I help my child gain phonemic awareness?

There are many activities that can help parents accomplish this task. Here are two simple ones that you can do with your child without having to buy, make, or read anything (other than this post!).

NOTE: When you see a letter between slashes, /a/, it represents the sound of the letter. When you see a letter in bold, a, it represents the name of the letter.

Activity 1:

Parent: Listen to this word: cat. One more time: cat. /k/ /a/ /t/. Can you say the word?
Child: cat.
Parent: Good job! Now can you say the sounds? /k/ /a/ /t/.
(If your child makes an error, be positive–“Good try! That was pretty close! You almost got it!”–and ask him to try again.)
Child: /k/ /a/ /t/.
Parent: That was great! Now write each letter for the word cat. Write the letter that makes this sound /k/ (allow your child to write the letter c); /a/ (allow your child to write the letter a); /t/ (allow your child to write the letter t).
Child: /k/ (child writes letter c); /a/ (child writes letter a); /t/ (child writes letter t); cat.
Parent: You said AND wrote the word cat. You are so smart! (Now try more words like fan, sad, bat, pig, pen, and box.)

Activity 2:

Watch this video with your child. Listen to the narrator and follow the prompts:

Hooked on Phonics was developed by literacy experts and has continually evolved through the years using current research on the most effective methods for teaching children how to read.

Becoming a Nation of Readers

In response to the National Institute of Education’s landmark report, Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the National Commission on Reading, Hooked on Phonics took to heart the committee’s conclusions in creating its reading programs. Specifically, that:

1. 1. Parents play an important role in laying the foundations of learning to read.
   2. Parents have an obligation to support their children’s continued growth as readers.
   3. Kindergarten programs should stress oral language and writing as well as the beginning steps of reading.
   4. Phonics instruction improves children’s ability to identify words.
   5. Reading primers should be both interesting, comprehensible, and instructive.
   6. Both oral and silent reading are important for the beginner.

The Hooked on Phonics White Paper outlines the specific ways in which the Commissions’ recommendations were used to develop and refine Hooked on Phonics’ reading programs.

COMMON CORE

The reading programs from Hooked on Phonics also provide systematic instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness, aligning it with Common Core Reading Foundational Skills in use across the United States.

The specific Common Core Reading Skills Hooked on Phonics addresses are:

Print Concepts

Understanding the organization and basic features of print.

Phonological Awareness

Demonstrating an understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

Phonics and Word Recognition

• The basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
• Being able to associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
• Reading common high-frequency words by sight.
• Being able to distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

National Institute of Education (1985), Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the National Commission on Reading. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education

1. It doesn’t discriminate.

   Research shows that phonics instruction produces significant benefits for children of all ages, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

2. It builds phonemic awareness.

   This is the #1 predictor of a child’s early reading ability-understanding how words are made up of sounds. For example, the letter c says “c,” and the word cat is made up of the sounds /c/, /a/, and /t/, blended together make the word cat.

3. It helps with word recognition.

   Exposing children to words both in isolation and in context helps achieve effortless word recognition, also called automaticity.

4. It helps with print exposure.

   Simply put, children who have more opportunities to read (and be read to) are more likely to acquire the building blocks of reading-fast, automatic word recognition and decoding skills.

5. Every child is different.

   While some kids can read a word once and then recognize it later on, most kids need to read a word 4-8 times in a short period of time before it becomes automatic. Others may need 15-20 exposures. The phonics method offers those opportunities.

6. It provides opportunities for “just-right” reading.

   Kids need the chance to read books that are tied to their independent reading level, meaning the books can be read with 90-95% accuracy. This allows kids to be able to focus on the specific skill being taught.

7. It helps build confidence.

   With the phonics method, even young kids can fairly quickly learn to “read” a “just-right” book on their own—often for the first time. This success makes kids feel proud and gets them to start to think of themselves as readers.

8. It boosts self-esteem.

   Don’t kid yourself. Learning to read is hard. It doesn’t come naturally for everyone. Phonics gives children a tool that breaks down the process of learning to read into bite-sized, doable chunks. Kids who can feel successful through their own efforts are more likely to have higher self-esteem.

9. It helps with spelling.

   Studies show that kids who are able to break down the sounds that make up words (called decoding) are better at spelling.

10. It allows children to read for meaning.

    Research shows that giving kids to opportunities read books with a high percentage of familiar patterns (phonics) allows kids to focus on comprehending and understanding the story, instead of decoding words.

Read more about the Research Behind Hooked on Phonics.

]]> https://www.hookedonphonics.com/word-games-in-the-news/ https://www.hookedonphonics.com/word-games-in-the-news/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:10:20 +0000 http://blog.earlymoments.com/?p=154 I was sitting on a train last week with my new boss talking for a good 2 hours about Hooked on Phonics. It has been my experience that anytime I mention where I work, people always want to share stories about teaching their children to read, which of course, I love. That day was no exception. When we finally got to our stop, the gentleman sitting next to my boss told us about a great word game his sons play. I thought it was clever and easy so I thought I’d pass it on.

The boys names are Matthew and Andrew. They are 5 and 6 and all about learning sight words levitra cijena. It just so happens that Matthew has the sight word “the” in his name and Andrew has “and” So the boys make a competition by taking newspaper articles and counting how many times their sight word appears in it. As it turns out, “the”almost always wins. But I still think it’s a great game!

What words can you make from your child’s name? If there isn’t one as obvious as Andrew or Matthew, take the child’s name and mix the letters up to make a word. Then choose an article or book and count the times the word appears.

Happy reading!

What exactly is Fluency?
Fluency is the ability to read accurately and quickly. A fluent reader can look at words, know how to read them, and comprehend the meaning, all at the same time. Fluency is important because it allows children to focus on the meaning of a word instead of trying to decode it.

How can I help my child become a fluent reader?
In order to become fluent readers, children must first learn what a good reader sounds like. When children hear good models reading fluently, they learn by example. Children should also read and reread a book or a story several times until they can do so fluently using correct expression, pronunciation, tone, and pauses. This usually occurs after the third or fourth reading.

Instructions:
In just 20 minutes, your child can practice reading fluently by watching our Itsy Bitsy Spider video and reading along with the companion minibook. Just click on the link and print it out, it’s free!

1. Print out the Itsy Bitsy Spider book by clicking on this link: Itsy Bitsy Spider Minibook. You can print the pages in full color or black and white.
2. Cut on the dotted lines.
3 köpa priligy. Stack the pages in order, from page 1 to page 6.
4. Staple the pages on the left-hand side.
5. Now, watch the Itsy Bitsy Spider video with your child and read along with the book.
6. Have your child read the book out loud a few times. Make sure he’s reading with correct pauses, expression, pronunciation, tone, etc.
At the end of this activity, your child’s level of fluency will have increased, and he’ll be one step closer to becoming a great reader.

Working with tactile materials to learn letter shapes is a big part of Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Pre-K. There are endless fun ways to explore letter shapes with your child, like:
Decorate an apple with As.
Glue buttons on a board to make Bs.
Create a C out of clay.
Dish out a D with dish soap.
Erase an E from an envelope.
You get the idea. In addition, to Learn to Read Pre-K, another great resource for letter activities and ways to have fun with your preschooler is the wonderful blog No Time For Flash Cards. Be sure to check out the Letter of the Week activities.

Oh, and one important safety note: always wear your superhero goggles when doing any alphabetic work with pipe cleaners.