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Teaching With Favorite Read-alouds In Prek
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Teaching Reading And Writing To Your Child – The Benefits To Parents
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Reading and writing with your children can help you to build better relationships with them. Reading involves interacting with your child and allows you to set a time aside that you specifically spend with your child. As you create a relaxed and fun atmosphere reading together, your relationship can become stronger. The more opportunities you get to be with your child alone, the easier it can get for both of you to share, and parents find that other issues affecting their children can be expressed, and once out in the open, are easier to discuss.
Stories in books can be used to explain difficult situations and discuss confusing topics with your children. Whether you’re at home, on the bus, in the shops or at the doctor’s surgery or even hospital, there are countless opportunities to help your child to learn. Teaching your children to read and write gives you the chance to talk with them and read together, plus there are fun ways to develop their writing skills too. As a Parent you will have improved confidence in your ability to provide support for your children. Parents and especially first time parents are buffeted from all directions with information on what they should and should not do. Often parents feel inadequate, and at a loss as to how best to care for and support their children. The simple act of reading and being able to achieve positive results with your child can be a big boost for your confidence and can be a building block for continued support and involvement in the growth and development of your child.
Teaching your child to read and write can provide opportunities to take part in organised activities based in schools or other venues, and form new friendships with other parents through school activities, a neutral place where you can take part in enjoyable, focused activities. This can be particularly useful if you don’t live with your child or your everyday life does not provide opportunities to meet and mix with different people.
Parents with low literacy levels themselves can use this opportunity to learn and develop their own skills. Being able to read and write with your children can provide the motivation and support to join a more formal education class, and create opportunities for voluntary or paid work in schools or the wider community.
So what can you as a parent to help your child read and write better?
As a Parent you need to talk and listen to your children in order to make a good start in teaching them how to read and write. This will give your children an opportunity to hear how language is put together into sentences and prepare them to become readers and writers.
You need to set aside even just 10 minutes a day to read stories with your child as this helps build important skills as well as capturing your child’s interest in books. Books are a rich source of information for your child because they provide certain words which may not be used frequently in everyday conversations. From their earliest days babies enjoy listening to stories and looking at books.
In order to make teaching your child to read and write as easy and enjoyable as possible, choose books that you both enjoy and then spend time reading together and telling stories. You could talk about the pictures and characters in the books and make up your own. You could discuss how your children’s heroes might use books and reading to achieve the things they do.
Teaching your children to read and write does not have to always be formal. You can talk to your children about the world around them and read as you walk down the street and round the shops, pointing out signs and words and talking about them.
Reading together will also help you as a parent to correct your children outside of a disciplining situation which takes the pressure away for both parties. As a parent, you can use examples in the books you are using to teach your child to read and write to help them see things differently. Involve your children in your reading interests, and buy them books as presents. Joining a library and taking them there is another good way of introducing new books.
Teaching With Favorite Dr. Seuss Books
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Product Description
Celebrate the 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss and tap into the learning-rich possibilities of his popular and playful picture books! This wonderful resource uses The Cat in the Hat, Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks and other fun-filled favorites to teach phonics skills, build reading fluency, explore story elements, and more. Includes an author study, graphic organizers, interactive reproducibles, hands-on math and science activities, movement games, and art projects…. More >>
Teaching With Favorite Ezra Jack Keats Books: Engaging, Skill-Building Activities That Help Kids Learn About Families, Friendship, Neighborhood & Community, and More in These Beloved Classics
Friday, April 2nd, 2010- ISBN13: 9780439609722
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Introduce children to the work of this popular author-illustrator with language-building activities like Snowy Day Word Play, Louie’s Puppet Show, and Jenny’s Hat Story Mat. Includes a profile of the author, before- and after-reading discussion ideas, plus hands-on activities and reproducibles that build skills across the curriculum…. More >>
Baby, Children, School Humour; Parenting, Teaching Jokes
Monday, March 29th, 2010BABY AND KIDS JOKES, PARENTING AND TEACHING, SCHOOL CHILDREN AND FAMILY HUMORTeaching is sometimes fun because of boy or girl, kids humor; family and parenting humor are mostly baby or kid, children jokes: funny kids jokes are often humorous parenting, teaching jokes. One of the popular school pupils’ jokes is this: “Oh,” replied the school kid, asked if he found the semester examinations easy, “the questions were easy, all right; but the answers were so difficult!”Kids humour is seen, also, in teaching children grammar: It was nearly the end of the school term, and it was obvious to a teacher that one of his young pupils still could not tell the difference between ‘went’ and ‘gone’ -she kept saying “I have went home.” The teacher asked the girl to stay behind and write fifty times ‘I have gone home’. She did, and added a note: “I have written fifty times ‘I have gone home’ and I have went home.”In teaching and parenting, children interpret and tell! A teacher sent this note to the parents of the children in her class: “If you don’t believe everything that your children say that happened in class, then I won’t believe everything that they say that happened at home.”Babies know little -most baby jokes are parent humour or wit: Remarked, “Isn’t your baby rather small..?” a teenage mother commented, “Well, I have only been married three months…”Boy humour can indicate a schoolboy’s circumstances: “If you had a Dollar in one pocket,” asked the school teacher “and two in the other, of your coat,” “what would that be..?” A boy answered, “Someone else’s coat, Miss….” Never enough pocket money influences girl humour too: “I knew all the time,” said one of the girls to her friends in a science class, “that the Pound coin would not dissolve in that chemical solution…” Asked how she knew, the school girl explained: “Well, if it was going to, the teacher would have used a penny coin, wouldn’t he..!?”Parenting humour has a humorous reality for all mothers: A loved mother becomes a fallen woman when she returns home from shopping without any toys.Children jokes and family humour often involve mothers: Asked if she said her prayers before she ate, a child replied: “No; my mother’s cooking isn’t that bad.”Family jokes on kids humour involve fathers on teaching: When asked by his father if he liked his first day at school, a child exclaimed, “You mean I have got to go again, tomorrow!?”Teaching is often fun with children’s funny assumptions: A school kid thought Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.Teaching and school kids jokes use nouns versus pronouns too: A school kid, when asked by the class teacher who invented the radio, replied: “Macaroni.”Many baby jokes and parenting humour are based on names: A couple’s friend, upon being told that the expecting parents were considering naming their baby ‘Pat’, remarked “Pooh.. every ‘Tom, Dick, and Harry’ (John and Jane Doe) is called that.”School humour and children jokes use kids’ innocence: Asked by his teacher why he was late, a child said that he saw a road sign on the way which read: ‘Go Slow!’Kids are clever, the anecdotes of a hailed teacher (the late Orhan Seyfi Ari) tells of his: He forbade his youngest son, then a child, from going out without asking him for a period of time ~the child cleverly picked his time, whenever his father had a siesta, always with an excuse to justify it, woke him up to ask if he could pop out!This is so in family humour also, as seen in family jokes: A teacher having asked the class to say a few words about someone who they had made happy, one of the children told about his aunt who he spent the weekend with and when he left was happy.Parenting humour does not, always, include kids humour: In a university parenting research project to get academic data on how many parents knew where their children were, many of the telephone calls were answered by children who did not know where their parents were.In kid jokes children’s vocabulary adds to kids humour: After teaching about the dark ages, and having told children of the many knights they had then, a teacher tested the class by asking why the dark ages were called so -a child answered: “Because they had many nights.”Word meanings can be used, as in this university humour: “I am taking medicine at university,” said the student; his friend asked, “Is it doing you any good?” Wordplay can be less direct, as in this college humour: Student humour defines ‘college’ with wit, as a fountain of knowledge where one quenches one’s thirst.College jokes can be rather harsh also on teaching staff: The difference between good and bad lecturers is a nap.Unlike college jokes, school jokes treat teachers gently: When a member of the teaching staff announced that she was going to marry the school caretaker, the head teacher remarked to other teachers: “He swept her off her feet…”School jokes sometimes are about schools themselves: A humorous traffic sign put up by a school was this: ‘Use your eyes! Save the pupils!’In parenting humour and kid jokes children are innocent: A school kid proudly showed his parents a gold star his teacher gave him -asked what it was for he explained that they all had to rest, and he rested best.University humour allows ridicule as do high school and college humor: In a law school mock trial the student asked: “When you walked into the bar, did you clearly see Mr. A and Mr. B, together?”; and, answered affirmatively, continued: “And, where were you, at the time?”In kids jokes, be it boy humour or girl humour, children are never stupid; in parenting, are cute: A bad report of a kid from his teacher upset his parents; “Why am I so?” asked the kid, “Is it my environment or is it hereditary?”A webste with Wit, Humor & Satire of the Extraordinar Teacher Ari orhanseyfiari.com
Fluency Lessons for the Overhead: Grades 4-6: 15 Passages and Lessons for Teaching Phrasing, Rate, and Expression to Build Fluency for Better Comprehension
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010- ISBN13: 9780439588539
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This resource provides 15 lessons for modeling fluency using fun passages that kids will love to read and reread. Includes excerpts from the work of J.K. Rowling, Seymour Simon, Karen Hesse, and more! Each passage is provided on an overhead and a reproducible; each lesson is complete with independent practice and comprehension activities. For use with Grades 4-6…. More >>
The New Kindergarten: Teaching Reading, Writing, & More
Monday, March 22nd, 2010- ISBN13: 9780439288361
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Filled with creative and effective ideas for teaching kindergaten. Includes: start-the-year community builders, stratagies for classroom routines, mini-lessons on shared reading and writing, activities that build phonemic awareness and phonics skills, samples of student work, and much more…. More >>
Activities for Teaching Vocabulary
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Engaging young minds is most effective when learning is fun. Introducing new concepts through new methods draws and keeps attention. Activities for teaching vocabulary can be just as enjoyable. As the key partner to comprehensive in a child’s learning journey, vocabulary requires retention. And retention is fueled by activities that build memory and cognitive skills.
For example, rhyming is a powerful tool in building retention. Exercises with rhyming words is just one of the activities for building vocabulary used in this accessible and fun e-book program. The activities will support your child’s learning of parts of the body, manners, what baby animals are called, and much more. In addition, the activities relate to practical matters, such as what objects are used for particular tasks, in what order things occur, what individual does what jobs, and what various places are called. Word Gymnastics will stretch the possibilities for a stronger vocabulary, encouraging your child to explore new words, their meanings, and how to use them in writing and speaking.
Building vocabulary encourages the learning of more words through reading. Increasing vocabulary supports reading comprehension as genuine understanding of new and increasingly complex words is achieved. A child equipped with a great capacity through vocabulary will be less intimidated about choosing a more challenging book on library, in having conversations with older children and adults, and in growing her writing skills. Vocabulary supports confidence and is one of the keys for success in life and work. Starting your child on the right foot in the vocabulary journey is just the beginning, but setting the stage for him to find the right word for the future school and work projects that lie ahead is invaluable.
Convenient printable worksheets provide parents and teachers with easy tools for reinforcing learning through Word Gymnastics. The worksheets provide parents with a traceable means to teach and build vocabulary. You will find the principles shared in our e-book can be applied in your continuing work with your child as new capacity for language and the words that comprise it grows.









