Early Childhood Reading Strategies

This short video shows an example of some of the reading strategies young readers (early childhood and/or Kindergarten) can be using as they learn to read.

Some of the strategies include, sounding out words, getting your mouth ready to sound out a word, using picture clues, talking about what the book will be about, thinking what makes sense, re-reading a page, using multiple strategies at once, asking for help....

I put this short video together one night when my daughter was looking at an easy reader. Partly to try out a new camera, partly to share reading strategies, and partly to show off our three year old.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• education
• reading
• kindergarten
• early childhood

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

Mainefolk is exactly right. This child isn't learning to read. This child is learning to identify objects in pictures, a completely different skill.

[miazagora]

Let's see how well the kid can read in a few years. Let's look at the literacy rate in schools and how many of the kids that are great readers had parents who gave them extra help by teaching the phonetic sounds of the letters and blends, and how many had parents that read to them as small children. If a kid learns the word "food" merely by sight, it can easily be confused with many other words with similar shapes (tall-short-short-tall). It's a load of nonsense. No wonder illiteracy is up.

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

@tinytech1013 Recent NAEP scores show that kids are mostly below proficient--that is, they are illiterate! Why? Because all these bad ideas continue to be used.

Samuel Blumenfeld said he thought there shouldn't be a picture used anywhere. They take kids down a false road.

HIs and is do illustrate a pattern--that sometimes s is pronounced z. Kids should memorize this interesting pattern, not the visual shapes.

Bruce Deitrick Price

Improve-Education org

[tinytech1013]

@BruceDeitrickPrice Picture clues help beginner readers to make sense of what the letters are saying and can help beginner readers know if they sounded the word out right. Which is why beginner reader books have pictures and simple sentences. Identifying objects is a skill students need to match words with pictures. And many words have to be memorized by sight because they don't follow simple phonetic patters (like "is" where the "s" makes a "z" sound).

[angiemanzano]

@wowitzkate Actually the 3 cueing systems does not hold up to research. Google 3 cueing systems and you will see it has been proven that only poor readers use multiple cues to figure out words, and only because they can't decode well.

[miazagora]

@wowitzkate Oh, whatever. "DAP" strategies smategies. Who cares?  People learned to read LONG before "DAP strategies" - and they read much more complicated texts at earlier ages. (Ever gone on Google books and perused the readers children used back in the 1800's and early 1900's?) As for learning "how to teach novices" - I HAVE taught all three of my children to read early and above grade level. I suggest you take your "environmental print" and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.

[miazagora]

Reading curriculum is available for free at Progressive Phonics (dot) com. Progressive phonics uses phonics as well as some sight words (words that can't be sounded out). It teaches the "rules" along the way as well (such as, when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking). It's also scripted. And it's free to everyone who wants their child to read. I taught two of my children to read with it.

[gegebird]

@miazagora Well said.

[gegebird]

@gegebird Children enjoy playing with phonemes so this should be easy to teach. Show children how to break words up into manageable chucks and sound them out

[gegebird]

@wowitzkateSo whole language teaching is goo but limited because not all children will learn to read in this passive way. Some just keep on guessing what the word is based on the first letter and picture. Avoiding explicit phonemic instruction is an out dated teaching practice. If you make it seam hard by keeping the code (phoneme/sound grapheme/letters relationship) secret children will become to scared to try.

[ARBIH87]

@BruceDeitrickPrice logographic stage:P

[immunetocommonsense]

@jengagnon78 When I started to look for ways teaching my now 3 year old (it is her birthday today)to read stumbled over Dolch. I was immediately skeptic. Phonics is using logic (sometimes not) and skills vs. to memorize. Memorization is in the most cases not the best learning approach.