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1. RAISING
A READER
PHONICS IS NOT ENOUGH

2. A+ F
PROS OF PHONICS CONS OF PHONICS
A Developmental Reading Books have been written to
Assessment test proved that an compliment phonics, but they
average preschool graduate who did not help children read words
had received phonics training had that were outside of phonics.
90 percent proficiency.
Bigger words need to be
Phonics improves reader memorized and complicated
fluency and comprehension. rules make it hard for children
to follow.
Phonics helps children to
comprehend and decode a text About half the words in the English
which allows them to language cannot be pronounced
understand each word. correctly using commonly taught
phonetic rules.

3. THE NATIONAL READING PANEL
ISSUED A REPORT STATING:
PHONICS DRASTICALLY HELPED CHILDREN TO
START READING IN KINDERGARTEN TO FIRST GRADE
IMPROVEMENT
KINDERGARTEN FIRST GRADE SECOND GRADE AND ON....
AND FAILED TO HELP IMPROVE READING SKILLS
OF CHILDREN IN SECOND GRADE AND ON

4. BUT
WHEN COMBINED
WITH OTHER READING TECHNIQUES
one technique other techniques combined techniques
effective!
PHONICS BECOMES MORE BENEFICIAL

5. 5 KEY POINTS & TIPS
FOR A COMPLETE SET OF READING SKILLS

6. PHONEMIC AWARENESS
SAY WORDS SLOWLY and stretch them out so your child
can hear the individual sounds it takes to put the word
together. SHOW THEM HOW CHANGING SOUNDS CAN
FORM NEW WORDS. For example, changing the “s” in sing
to “r” creates the word ring.

7. PHONICS
When reading a word, USE A SIMPLE MOVEMENT OR
VISUAL CUE to help your child move from one sound to the
next. SHOW YOUR CHILD THE RELATIONSHIP between the
letters and sounds by starting with simple CVC (consonant-
vowel-consonant) words like cat, rat, hot, etc.

8. FLUENCY
READ ALOUD TO YOUR CHILD REGULARLY with lots of
expression. Before they will be able to read fluently, they
need to have it modeled and will eventually use it in their
own reading.

9. VOCABULARY
Having children read ALOUD FORCES THEM TO GO SLOWER,
which provides more TIME FOR PROCESSING what is read.
After reading the material, you should have a focused
DISCUSSION WITH CHILDREN about the meaning of the text.

10. PHONEMIC COMPREHENSION
USE VISUALIZATION TO HELP BUILD VOCABULARY SKILLS.
Put labels on things around the house. Find ways to describe
colors, textures and other things to build vocabulary.

11. BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
FOR PHONETICS

12. LESS DIFFICULT
BOB BOOKS JACK AND JILL AND BIG DOG BILL GO. DOG. GO!
BOBBY LYNN MASLEN MARTHA WESTON P.D. EASTMAN
MORE DIFFICULT

13. LESS DIFFICULT
DANNY & THE DINOSAUR MR. PUTTER & TABBY FRANKLIN
SYD HOFF CYNTHIA RYLANT PAULETTE BOURGEOIS
MORE DIFFICULT

14. LESS DIFFICULT
CLIFFORD IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE AMELIA BEDELIA
NORMAN BRIDWELL LAURA JOFFE NUMEROFF PEGGY PARISH
MORE DIFFICULT

15. SIX STEPS
TO PREVENT READING PROBLEMS
BEGIN DIRECTLY TEACHING SHOW CHILDREN EXACTLY
PHONEMIC AWARENESS AT HOW TO SOUND OUT WORDS
AN EARLY AGE
USE CONNECTED DECODABLE
TEACH EACH LETTER-SOUND TEXT FOR CHILDREN TO PRACTICE
CORRESPONDENCE EXPLICITLY THE LETTER-SOUND RELATIONSHIPS
THEY LEARN
TEACH FREQUENT, HIGHLY REGULAR READ INTERESTING STORIES TO
LETTER-SOUND RELATIONSHIPS CHILDREN TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE
SYSTEMATICALLY COMPREHENSION

16. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON COMBINING READING TECHNIQUES
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