ABSTRACT
Concepts about print: young children’s early ideas about books, reading and print
The 3 elements of reading:
• reading to understand • high frequency words • phonics/blending letter sounds
Early reading: one to one matching and pointing
Fashions in teaching reading:
• phonics • look and say • Initial Teaching Alphabet • language experience • real books
How to make reading easier:
• introducing a new book • using and cross-checking cues: meaning, letters, phonemes, sentence structure • developing self-help strategies: self-monitoring, re-reading, using pictures and
phonemes • missing out a word
Three things to remember:
• praise • patience • prompting
Reading non-fiction:
• brainstorming first • pictures and real objects • KWL grids
Ways to support children’s reading:
• shared, guided and supported reading in the Literacy Hour • paired, turn-taking, language experience • talking (taped) books, interactive (computer) books
Developing comprehension: reading punctuation marks and asking questions.
