Tips for Reading with your Children Phonic awareness

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The Importance of the Early Years

How early does a child begin to learn language?

—•From the day of birth, a child’s brain is receptive to learning language.

•The size of a toddler’s vocabulary is strongly correlated with how much a mother talks to the child.

•Children learn to speak by being surrounded by speech.

•Your habits of talking and listening will make a difference of in your child’s language development.

—Follow Directions and —Listen Attentively

—Responds to questions

—Names pictures/objects

—Initiates conversations

—Speaks in sentences

—Imitates songs/rhymes/finger plays

—Retells simple stories

—Discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language

—Identify rhyming words

—Recognize common sounds at the beginning of a series of words

—Identify syllables in words

How to help your child with Phonemic Awareness

•Direct teaching of specific sounds

•Clapping games

•Rhyming games

•“What do you hear?” games

•Stretching and shrinking

•“Bumpy” and “smooth” blending

Listening to Sequences of Sounds

What you need

Examples:

Banging on wall/table/lap, Blowing a whistle, Clapping, Rubbing hands together, Drumming with fingers, Eating an apple, Coughing, Slamming a book, ...etc .

What do your do?

•Ask children to cover their eyes and listen to and identify the sound they hear

•Once the children have caught on to the game, make two noises, one after the other.

•Without peeking, the children are to guess the two sounds in sequence saying, “There are two sounds. First we heard a _______, and then we heard a _______.”

•After the children can identify a sequence of two sounds, increase the number of sounds in sequence.

What You Do

—You say a compound word.

—Ask your child to repeat it.

—Then ask your child to say what word remind if you omit one portion.

—You child pronounces the word that is left.

Examples:

Cowboy Say it again without the boy cow

Outside Say it again without the out. side

Grasshopper Say it again without the grass. hopper

Jellyfish Say it again without the fish jelly

Zookeeper Say it again without the zoo. keeper

Rattlesnake Say it again without the snake rattle

Cupcake Say it again without the cake. cup

Dishwasher Say it again without the dish washer

Horsefly Say it again without the horse fly

Baseball Say it again without the base ball

Campground Say it again without the ground camp

•Say each pair or words below and ask your child to repeat them and tell you if the words rhyme. They rhyme if all the sounds are the same except the beginning sound.

•Start down the first column for the easiest pairs, followed by the middle, and then the right column

•Do a few at a time - not all at once.

Whew! Now we finished Phonic awareness skills and next wait for my

Phonics Ladder of Skills!