Tips for ur lil 1

Literacy

Reading to Your Child:

1. Start reading to your child as soon as he or she is born
2. Make reading a fun and bonding experience shared with you and your child
3. Pick a comfortable setting
4. Let your child choose and be close to the book
5. Let your child have control of the book (ie. turn the pages and point to the words)
6. Talk about the title and cover and make predictions
7. Discuss the pictures before you read the book
8. Talk about the vocabulary
9. Point to the words as you read
10. Allow time for questions and comments as you read
11. Stop the book at any point and ask questions in order to check for understanding
12. Allow time for discussion at the end of book

10 Features of Book Sharing

1. Closeness between the family and the child
2. Letting the child take control
3. Making sure the child can see the book
4. Asking questions (labeling, recounting)
5. Answering questions
6. Relating the book to the child's life
7. Tracking the print as you read
8. Talking about the title and the cover
9. Making predictions
10. Going on a picture walk (talking about the pictures)

Assessment for Reading to Your Child

1. Book Familiarity:
   Able to point out: front and back of the book, where the title and author's name is, where the first and last page is
2. Book Handling:
   Able to take care of the book when looking at it
3. Tracking (text to text):
   Able to track the text as you read
4. Relating Text to Self:
   Able to make connections to own life
5. Relating Text to Others:
   Able to make connections to the real world
6. Making Predictions:
   Able to make good predictions of where the story is going
7. Information from Pictures:
   Able to gather information from pictures

Reading Responses to Stories:

1. I noticed...
   What did you notice about the story?
2. I felt...
   How did the book make you feel and why?
3. It reminded me of...
   What did the story remind you of?

Types of Books to Read to Your Child:

1. Repetitive
2. Rhythmic
3. Echo
4. Basic Sentence Pattern
5. Rhyming Books
6. Information Books

Providing a Home Literacy Environment

1. Literacy does not begin with formal reading and writing
2. Infants, toddlers and young children learn a lot of skills through interactions between adults and themselves
3. The parent is the teacher and the child is the learner
4. Books should be everywhere
5. Children should have access to paper, and other writing materials
6. Parents and children should be engaged in conversations during work and play
7. Parents should be modeling reading (ie. reading themselves)
8. Children need to learn daily through their interactions with their parents through play, teaching and routine situations
9. Interactions need to be supportive, warm and engaging
10. Parent responsiveness, positive emotional tone and parental guidance are related to language and cognitive development

What Parents Need to Do At Home:

1. Parents must read themselves
2. Parents must encourage their children to read
3. Parents must read to their child
4. Parents must listen to and help their children read when they are reading
5. Parents need to provide lots of opportunities for verbal interactions between their child and themselves through conversation and play

Tips for ur lil 1

Teaching the Alphabet to Your Child

What Your Child Needs to Know:

1. Recognize upper and lower case letters
2. Recognize alphabet sounds
3. Able to list items that begin with the letter sound

Using Different Types of Intelligences to Introduce the Alphabet

1. Linguistic Intelligence
   Reading alphabet books
   Playing "I Spy": I spy with my little eyes something that starts with an 'a' sound.
   Making an alphabet book: cutting out items that start with a particular letter
2. Mathematical Intelligence
   Counting how many lines each letter has
   Discussing the different shapes the letter makes
   Alphabet Hunt: finding letters in sign
   Playing Alphabet BINGO
   Playing alphabet puzzles
3. Kinesthetic Intelligence
   Using the body to make each letter
   Drawing letters in sand
   Using Playdough to make letters
   Using alphabet stamps
4. Musical Intelligence
   Alphabet Chant: B says 'b', B says 'b', bouncing ball, bouncing ball, 'b', 'b', 'b'.
   Singing alphabet songs
5. Interpersonal Intelligence
   Learning letters in the names of friends and family
6. Intrapersonal Intelligence
   Learning letters in own name
   Finding favourite items that begin with each letter

Tips for ur lil 1

Phonemic Awareness

What Is It?
It is one of the strongest predictors of reading success.
It is the ability to segment and recognize sounds within words.

The Skills

1. Rhyming
   Able to tell if two words rhyme (Do bear and chair rhyme?)
   Able to generate rhyme (What rhymes with cat?)
2. Segmenting & Blending Syllables
   Able to segment words into syllables (Break apple into syllables? a-pple)
   Able to blend syllables into words (What word is di-no-saur? dinosaur)
3. Segmenting Sounds
   Able to segment the first sound in a word (What sound does apple start with? 'a' sound)
   Able to segment the last sound in a word (What sound does man end with? a 'n' sound)
   Able to segment words with two sounds (What is the first sound and last sound in the word at? starts with an 'a' sounds and ends with a 't' sound)
4. Blending sounds
   Able to blend the first sound with the rest of the word (What word is 'r' pause abbit? rabbit)