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    Helping children make sense of words and sentences | Comprehension

    Children learning how to read | Comprehension

      The main goal of teaching your kids reading is to ultimately help them understand the text. Good readers are better at making sense of what they read. According to Sadoski (2004), there are different levels of comprehension: Literal– direct meaning (e.g. the first little pig built a house of…

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    How to help your child decode words when reading? | Phonics

    How to decode words when reading | Phonics| High-Frequency words | Sight Words

    Phonics is where real reading begins. This is the stage where your child will begin to decode the spellings of printed words and sound it out. Decoding words require your child to be able to have good: Alphabet Knowledge Phonological Awareness So, if you wonder why your child finds it…

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    Why your child can’t blend words yet | Phonemic Awareness

    Blending words | Teaching kids how to read| Phonemic awareness

      “B-u-s. What word is that?” *Your child stares at you cluelessly.* Does this sound familiar? So your child knows most of the sounds in the alphabet and you’re ready to teach him to blend those sounds. But when you tried sounding out each letter for him to blend, he…

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  • Literacy

    8 Strategies for teaching children the alphabet| Alphabet Knowledge

    Strategies to teach the alphabet

    Have you ever wondered whether you should follow the advice of introducing your kids with letter sounds before letter names? Or why some reading programs don’t start teaching letters from the normal sequence of A to Z, instead they start with “s, a, t, p..”? Or whether you should introduce…

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  • Literacy

    Guide to teaching children reading

    how to teach children reading

    I’m sure by now you realize that there are a ton of information and so many reading programs to choose from. They all seem to be using various approach to teaching reading. This overwhelming amount of info can leave you a little clueless on where to start or which program…

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  • Literacy

    What your child needs to know before learning to read | Print Awareness

    Print awareness | help children learn how to read

    “The cat is on the mat” What seems like a no-brainer to us adults, is not quite so for children. Reading is no easy task for them. It involves working together with a set of complex skills from visual to auditory processing. Reading this simple sentence, for example, requires your…

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  • Literacy

    All about teaching early years literacy

    early years literacy, reading, writing for children

    Reading The complete guide to teaching reading Intro: Guide to teaching children reading Part 1: What your child needs to know before learning to read | Print Awareness Part 2: 8 Strategies for teaching children the alphabet |Alphabet knowledge Part 3: Why your child can’t blend words | Phonemic Awareness Part 4: How to…

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