Reading

Read 15 minutes at least 5 nights per week. This includes your child reading to themselves or to you and you reading aloud to your child.

The importance of phonological awareness

What is phonological awareness?

It is the ability to recognize that words are made up of sounds. Students are expected to develop phonological awareness skills. Phonemic awareness is more specific in that it focuses on just the sound of the phonemes. Phonemic awareness tasks include pictures and auditory tasks, NOT letters.

Why is phonemic awareness important?

Students with good phonemic awareness skills are better at spelling, decoding and writing.

**Handout was sent home in Friday folders for all Kindergarten families to refer to**

Age 5:

Children identifying rhyme
Clapping/Counting Syllables

Age 5 1/2:

Blending onset/rime
Producing a rhyme
Matching initial sounds

Age 6:

Compound word deletion
Beling 2-3 phonemes
Phoneme segmentation of 2-3 phonemes

Age 6 1/2:

Phoneme segmentation of 3-4 phonemes
Phoneme substitution

Age 7: Sound deletion (initial/final)

Tips for Building a Better Reader

How to Read with a Beginning Reader

Complete a picture walk BEFORE reading.
Predict what may happen in the book.
Model and encourage your child to track print with reading finger.
Read a word or sentence and have your child repeat it.
Take turns reading each page.
Talk about the story as you read. "What do you think will happen next? What does this story remind you of?"
Read the story again! Repeated readings build fluency and confidence!

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