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Creating Readers: Over 1000 Games, Activities, Tongue Twisters, Fingerplays, Songs, and Stories to Get Children Excited About Reading
By: Pamela Byrne Schiller
The basic blocks of reading are addressed in this resource that provides teachers and parents with the tools to teach pre-reading skills with over 1,000 activities, games, fingerplays, songs, poems, and more.
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Reading Rockets
Long before young children learn to read, they are practicing critical pre-reading skills: discovering the world of print, holding a book and turning its pages, recognition of letters and the sounds of speech, rhyming, word play, and "scribble" writing. To learn more about how to help emergent readers master these skills, visit Reading Rockets' comprehensive collection of preschool resources, for parents, preschool teachers, and caregivers.
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SOUNDS: PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Being able to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.
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Say nursery rhymes so that your child hears words that rhyme. Emphasize the rhyming words.
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Add actions as you sing a song or recite a poem. This helps your child break down language into separate words.
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Singing songs is a good way to help your child hear syllables in words. In most songs, each syllable in a word gets a different note.
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Make up your own silly, nonsense rhymes.
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Say rhymes and sing songs in the language that is most comfortable for you.
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Being able to hear the sounds that make up words helps children sound out written words as they begin to read.
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