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Reading |
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Reading To Your Baby and Preschool Child: The First Step! |
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Language development starts right after birth. The child is immersed in a world of language. Infants, toddler, and preschooler are primed for language development. Parents are the major teachers of language during this time. Your talk forms your child's speech. Speaking with children and modeling language for them goes a long way towards reading development. At four, five, and six oral language and reading dove tail with each other. Talking in a conversation way and reading to your child will greatly facilitate the language skills needed for reading and thinking. The give and take of language builds language success. Passive listening to language from television does not build language success. Babies Need Books: Sharing the Joy of Books With Your Child from Birth to Six by Dorothy Butler, Amazon.Com: $15.95 |
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Children Never Out Grow The Reading-Aloud Adventure:
The Second Step! This is the single most important book for parent that I've ever read! If you buy one book, buy this one. |
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This is perhaps the number one thing a parent can do to improve your child's reading. Whether your child is an excellent reader or has dyslexia, reading to them as they follow along will develop their reading ability. Even after children learn to read by themselves, it's still important for you to read aloud together. By reading stories that are on their interest level, but beyond their reading level, you stretch young readers' understanding and motivate them to improve their skills. |
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If you want some very solid advice on placing your child's feet on the road to literacy and a good education, read The Read-Aloud Handbook (4th Ed) by Jim Trelease List Price: $11.16 from Amazon.com. As a father and journalist he reviews the state of literacy in the U.S. He talks honestly to parents about the struggles of setting up a reading-aloud time for your family. The book has reviews of many children's books that can be read-aloud. |
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Help and and Advice for Parents |
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Straight Talk About Reading. Although I have not had a chance to read this book through first hand, I've read the comments at amazon.com. Most of the comments both by professional "reading" tuitors and by parents helping their children, rate this book highly. I advise checking it out. Straight phonics can be confusing and not that rewarding. For some children they associate the sounds with letters in this phono-graphic method. Also check out a good web site resource Reading by Grade 3. |
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Looking for Phonics: A Positive Approach: The Third Step! |
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Solves the puzzle of reading by focusing on the sounds of the alphabet.
Uses simple words to form easy sentences that tell fun stories.
Systematically introduces main phonetic patterns.
Presents vocabulary lists for preview and review.
Contains sentence completion activities for comprehension
Includes the geography of all 50 United States of America.
Features the seven continents and children from around the world (Book 19)
Uses only positive themes |
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www.FunPhonics.com |
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Learning in Freedom by Karl Bunday
This is good discussion of the issues around teaching your child to read. Mr.Bunday has done a great deal of reading and worked as a parent to promote reading among children. |
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Otherand References: |
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The bookstore a closed book for me. Growing up with dyslexia.
Helping your child learn to read. A public domain book. Written by Bernice Cullinan and Brod Bagert. This book is filled with great advice on how to approach reading and keep reading going.
Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic is the only national nonprofit organization that provides educational free materials in recorded and computerized formats at every academic level. 60% of all users are students with learning disables (K-12 ; College).
Bridges to Reading: Determining whether your child has a reading problem and deciding on the best ways to help. Written by reading specialists and education experts.
National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Disabled: Offers free recorded books for blind and physically handicapped individuals.
Phonics: If you are interested in phonics check out the phonics series published by Saxon Publishing |
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