It is important to start reading aloud to young children at
a young age in order to prepare them for reading and comprehension fluency. Fluency
can be practiced even in the grocery store by finding opportunities to point
out print and how it is used. As kids start to play read, they are showing knowledge
of how books work. Parents demonstrated how they put time aside at night with
no phones or TV and have reading time with their kids. It is important to transmit
that reading is a pleasure and that books matter. There are 150 different
speech words and English contains only 40 of them. It is important to start
children young even before they can understand. Reading aloud is the best
preparer for children. Educators of young children can play word games like rhyming
patters, in order to build phonemic awareness. One teacher sat at front of class
circle with a box that contained multiple items of different begging letters
and children had to pick the items that started with V. this needed a lot of student
participation and the teacher was able to see student understanding. If students
were falling behind, they were then to be given one to one help. One school
district issued an after-school program called RAVO where students practiced
rapid decoding and comprehension. This one program focused on word webs where
they focused on one core word a week. This program produced big gains and
fluency. The more rapid you are as a reader, the more time you can actually
allocate to understanding what you read.
I agree that reading aloud to young children can help develop fluency and comprehension. This highlights the significance of parental involvement in a child's early years and how important it is for educators to work with parents while their children attend school.
ReplyDeleteMichael and Ginny,
ReplyDeleteYou both make great points about the importance of reading to children even long before a child can read or even before he/she knows their letters. Reading to children, even infants, demonstrates a love and appreciation for the indescribable world of books. Also, even small, simple literacy skills, such as learning to start at the front of the book and reading left to right, are the beginning fundamentals are creating great, lifetime readers.