I am on a course at the present time, to become a Teaching assistant. I am
woking has a helper one day a week at the school and have been there
five weeks, i would be very grateful if anyone could give me some ideas on reading a child to read.
many thanks
Re: reading assisgnment
Karen,
Teaching kids to read is what I do daily. For most kids that are just missing some steps, the Early Steps program works well. It starts out with letter recognizion and sounds of the letters. We do picture sorts. Flash cards that have alot of pictures that start with the same letter. We also “Read” easy books.
They consist of pages like: a cat (with a picture of a cat), a dog (a picture of a dog). That kind of thing. After a child can do those skills then you move on to words that are done in word families. Example at, cat, bat, rat, an,can, van…
The program is put together by Carol Santa. I am not sure of the publisher.
Also LDonline is a great help.
hope this helps,
Julie
Go to “LD In Depth” (there’s a box with a link to it) and click on “readig” and take your pick.
There isn’t a quick answer. Teaching reading isn’t that easy when a kiddo isn’t one of the lucky natural readers. In general, *teaching* them the secrets to figuring out the words works a whole lot better than sharing the wonderfulness of literature and hoping they figure it out… but on the other hand, if you don’t have the training to teach the skills, then there’s still serious and significant value to sharing language and literature.