成人快播

As a mom, I know how hard it can be to juggle work, errands, dinner, and my children’s educational needs. Most days, it just feels there isn’t enough time, and sadly literacy practice was often one of the things that would get marked off of the schedule.聽

After becoming a 成人快播 site coordinator, I witnessed firsthand that using a few evidence-based practices can make it easy to fit literacy skill-building into a daily routine. Now that I鈥檓 equipped with the right strategies, I find it鈥檚 more beneficial to incorporate literacy practice into normal daily activities with my child.

With a few simple tricks, you can ensure the time spent practicing literacy skills will have optimal impacts on your kids鈥� development.

How to practice 5 key literacy skills with kids and when to start

Print Awareness聽 (From birth)

Print awareness involves making your children aware of different texts. For example, teaching them that we read from left to right or that there are spaces between the words. This can easily be done by counting the words on a highway billboard, or sliding your finger across the words on a page as you read to them.聽

By talking about whether the purpose of text is to teach us something, to show us where to go, or to slip into a fun story, you are opening up the door so your kids can find out what types of things they like to read and for what purpose.

Visualization (Ages 1+)

Have you ever read a recipe and could almost taste the food? Or looked at a travel website and pictured yourself on the beach with the tiny umbrella drink? Children need that same connection while they read. The more physical senses we can ignite, the more excitement your young reader will have for the text they’re reading.聽

We can help children develop the skill of visualizing by asking questions like, 鈥淐an you imagine how silly that looks?鈥� or, 鈥淗ow do you think the sun felt on her skin?鈥� By asking questions every so often, you give that child a chance to imagine what they are reading.

Phonological Awareness/Phonics (Ages 2+)

Words are made up of sounds, and if we have trouble hearing the individual sounds, it makes it hard to put the word together. A common activity you are probably familiar with is rhyming games. Not only can rhyming be done anywhere, at any time, but it is a great way to expand your young readers’ vocabulary.聽

Other great things to focus on are blends (two or more letters coming together, i.e S–p–l-a-t) and digraphs (when two letters make one sound, i.e C–h-补-颈-谤).听

I find myself teaching blends more in everyday conversation with my toddler after I hear her mispronounce a word. Instruct your reader to look at your lips and repeat each sound as you break the word up. For instance, try it with the word 鈥渟nap.”聽Break it up and say the sounds of the first two letters individually 鈥渟-n鈥� then blend 鈥渟n鈥� together in the full word, “snap.”聽

Digraphs are a little more tricky. You鈥檒l want to practice the sound that both letters make together and then practice using them in the word. Digraphs include sounds for; 鈥渟h鈥�, 鈥渃h鈥�, 鈥渢h鈥�, 鈥渨h鈥�. In words like; 鈥渇ish鈥�, 鈥渨hen鈥�, 鈥減ath鈥�, 鈥渃heer鈥�.聽

Spelling (Kindergarten/1st grade+)

I am a firm believer that increasing word recognition will improve young readers鈥� abilities. As a kid, I remember working on weekly spelling lists鈥攚riting each word five times, developing sentences, and looking up definitions. That practice of writing it, saying it, and seeing it made challenging words easier to decode because I had experience with similar word groups.聽

Not only did I notice the impacts of this practice in my own literacy development, but I learned later that the threefold practice of seeing, saying, and writing is scientifically proven to help our brains recognize spelling patterns that strengthen our reading skills.

When you practice spelling with your child, you can incorporate digraphs and blends by creating spelling lists focused on each skill.

But we are way too busy, right? Think about it this way. You spend up to five minutes writing a list of age-appropriate words once a week. That will give you up to 20 minutes, or five nights a week of undisturbed silence as your kid learns. Sounds like a win in my book!

Fluency (First grade+)

Hearing a child stumble over sentences can be so hard and bring feelings of frustration. Now, if I feel that as the listener, think of how the reader may feel. It鈥檚 okay though. Practice and patience make perfect.聽

Sometimes it isn’t always about getting through the entire book as much as it is reading it at a good pace, reading with accuracy, and expressing emotion as if you are reading through the eyes of the character.聽

One of students鈥� favorite tasks in the 成人快播 program is what I like to call “beating their high score.”聽

Get excited while doing this! It will flow into your kiddo鈥檚 effort. We set a one-minute timer and the student reads as many words as they can from a passage or book. If they mess up a word, you can restate the word correctly, ask them to repeat the word, and then have them start the sentence again. Then, count the words read and do it again to see if they can beat their high score. Reading the same text or passage several times helps kids read faster and more accurately the next time鈥攂uilding fluency and confidence along the way!

When we take everyday life moments, we have the opportunity to teach reading in the moment. Finding time will take practice and knowing where to start can help you find the time.