Tonight I’m delighted to introduce you to Brooke Vitale, an creator, editor, and mother, who not too long ago based Cost Mommy Books to function playful books for brand new readers! She is sharing info right here for us about studying to learn! (You’ll be able to scroll to the tip to study extra about her in her bio!)
Brooke, take it away!
Studying to Learn
Studying to learn is not any straightforward job, and as of late our youngsters are being taught at a youthful age than ever earlier than. So how can we get our youngsters able to learn and assist them alongside the way in which? By understanding the science behind studying.
The science of studying is a research-based strategy to literacy that focuses on 5 parts: phonemic consciousness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. For the youngest readers, two of those parts are key: phonemic consciousness and phonics.
What Is Phonemic Consciousness?
The English language encompass 44 distinctive sounds, or phonemes. Phonemic consciousness is the flexibility to determine these letter sounds and mix them collectively to type phrases.
Phonemic consciousness doesn’t require that youngsters acknowledge letters in written type. Somewhat, it requires youngsters to acknowledge the sounds letters make. For instance, a baby who shows phonemic consciousness won’t know that the phrase CAT begins with the letter C. As an alternative, they’d acknowledge that it begins with the phoneme /ok/.
Phonemes don’t all the time have a direct visible correlation to the letters that signify the sound. The letters PH, for instance, use the phoneme /f/, whereas the phoneme /s/ might be represented by both a C or an S. The grid under exhibits all 44 phonemes, with examples.
Letter Recognition
Letter recognition is the flexibility to determine a letter that’s being proven or to pick a selected letter from amongst a bunch of different letters. As dad and mom, it may be tempting to start by instructing capital letters. This is smart as a result of they’re simpler to put in writing. The difficulty is, we write in a mixture of capital and lowercase letters. Which implies that instructing solely capital letters leaves youngsters at an obstacle.
As an alternative, deal with studying capital and lowercase letters collectively. Train your little ones not solely to acknowledge the letters, however {that a} letter makes the identical sound, no matter how it’s printed.
Phonics and early studying
Phonics is the connection between letters and sounds.
As dad and mom, we could also be tempted to toss all of the sounds a letter could make at a child directly: “That is an A and it might probably say ah or ay. We are able to spell it a, ay, ai, a-e, ei, eigh, or ey.”
However that a lot info will simply confuse children. Studying is a cumulative course of. It should be taken one step at a time, with every step constructing on the subsequent.
Beneath are the ten phases of phonics:
Stage 1: Consonant and brief vowel sounds
Start by instructing consonants and brief vowel sounds within the context of CVC phrases. CVC stands for consonant-vowel-consonant. These are phrases like rag, hen, fib, however, and cub. Through the use of CVC phrases, children don’t have to fret about mixing a number of consonants. As an alternative, they’ll deal with particular person phonemes and the brief vowel sound in every phrase. And since brief vowel sounds are constant, children can extra simply study to acknowledge and grasp them.
When specializing in brief vowel sounds, encourage your reader to sound out a number of phrases in a row utilizing the identical vowel. This repetition is essential to studying a sound. As soon as your reader has mastered one brief vowel sound, then it’s time to maneuver on to the subsequent.
Stage 2: Consonant blends
As soon as your little one has mastered brief vowel sounds, it’s time to begin mixing consonants. This can be a bit more durable as children want to listen to extra sounds collectively. Some consonant blends embrace gr, bl, and tr.
Stage 3: Double letters and digraphs
Digraphs are two letters collectively that make one sound, equivalent to ck, ph, and ng. Double letters seem in phrases equivalent to off, buzz, and pull.
Stage 4: CVCe phrases
Lengthy vowel sounds might be tough. Keep in mind that record of sounds for A above? Seven of these eight spellings make the identical lengthy A sound. Which implies that instructing lengthy vowels is a course of.
Begin with CVCe phrases equivalent to cake, rice, and dice.
Stage 5: Phrase ending spelling patterns
Some phrases finish oddly, and studying to acknowledge these spelling patterns will help children advance their studying. Fashionable spelling patterns to show embrace -tch, -dge, -all, -oll, -ull, -le and -y.
Stage 6: R-controlled vowels
Phrases like for and automobile look like they need to use brief vowels, however they don’t. The R controls the sounds, altering it to one thing else. R-controlled vowels embrace: ar, or, ore, er, ir, and ur.
Stage 7: Vowel groups (lengthy vowels)
Vowel groups are two vowels that work collectively to type a brand new sound. They embrace ai, ay, ee, ea (as in bead), oa, ow (as in row), ie, and igh.
Stage 8: Different vowel groups
These embrace oo (as in quickly), oo (as in e book), ew, ui, ue, au, aw, augh, ea (as in head), and ea (as in break).
Stage 9: Dipthongs
A dipthong is a sound fashioned when two vowel sounds seem in a single syllable, as within the letters oi, oy, ou, and ow (as in cow).
Stage 10: Silent letters
Generally letters don’t make any sound in any respect. These embrace: kn, wr, gn, gh, mb, and silent t (as in pay attention).
In regards to the creator
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