Kindergarten Readiness Promoting Readiness to Read Noel Reasoner

Kindergarten Readiness Promoting Readiness to Read Noel Reasoner Literacy Coach

Promoting Phonemic Awareness • an ear for the way words sound (hear not see) • identify rhyme (cat/sat) and alliteration (cat, can) • Children who are • blend sounds ready to read develop (c-a-t=cat) these skills. • recognize onset • These skills are and rhyme (c/at) called phonemic • can identify sound awareness. units in words (cat=c-a-t)

Phonemic Awareness Read nursery rhymes, sing songs, and clap along with the rhythm. Play games with words that sound alike as you experience them in everyday life. e Demonstrat how sounds r e h t e g o t d n ble in familiar words.

Phonemic Awareness Play a game where the goal is the find the objects that begin with a certain sound. Play clapping games and clap with each sound or syllable.

Promoting Comprehension • • • High interest books Same favorites over and over Connect title to content Ask questions • Ask for retelling • Communicate feelings Comprehension is KEY Reading is a meaning making, message getting activity

Promoting Print Awareness • • Difference between pictures and print Environmental Print Different medium Different surfaces Words: Left to Right Lines: Top to Bottom Word for word Letters and words

Promoting Book Handling What’s the correct orientation? Where’s the beginning and end of book? ld How do I ho a book?

Reading Readiness Assessment • Letter Identification • Matching Rhyming Picture Cards • Initial Sounds (using pictures) • Blending Words (put word together when given sounds) • Segmenting Words (break words apart by sounds when given word)

SIGN UP TODAY! Sign up sheets are available to pre-testing for readiness so that instruction may begin on DAY 1. Mark your calendars: July 20 -23

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