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Reading by children is multilevel.
When kinder students read by themselves some of them "picture read",
while others will "pretend" to read, and the children that can
"really read" will have an opportunity to do so too. |
We teach our Kindergarten
students that there are three types of reading:
You can read by reading all the
words.
You can "pretend read"
by telling the story.
You can "picture read"
by looking at the pictures in the book and talking about the things
you see.
Ways to
Encourage your Children to Read
Reading
in Centers can be encouraged all year.
There are two things to remember when setting up a reading center... a
comfortable place to read and a lot of good books from which they can
choose.
Reading
the Room Center can be encouraged
all year too. Here the children use a magic wand or a special pointer
to go around and "read" the words in the room. An extension
of this center can be to
Write
Around the Room. Here they carry a clipboard and
pencil and write words that they know around the room.
Self-Selected Reading should be encouraged later in the year. The
books used earlier in the Reading center can be pulled and placed in book
baskets on the student tables. This cuts down on movement in the
classroom during this time. When you are ready, have the children
read softly to themselves for about 5 minutes to begin with and work up
to 15 minutes by the end of the year. The teacher during this time
roams around the room and listens and coaches a child who might need some
extra help.
Take-Home Reading should be encouraged later in the year when the children can read
independently. The expectation is that parents will read to and
with their children nightly. A take-home reading program provides
books to parents and their children who do not have books in their homes.
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