Rhyming Words with Older Readers

 

Rhyming Words with Older Readers ~ What’s the Benefit?

We all know that helping young readers to learn to recognize and produce rhyming words is an important building block to reading. But did you know that those same rhyming words can help older readers to decode words faster and more efficiently than if they just memorized random rules and words? Older readers can use rhyming words to help them read similar rimes (ending patterns in words). Understanding how to use spelling patterns to read and spell new words benefits beginning readers AND older readers, too.
How so? If a child knows how to read night, he can use the pattern of -ight to help him read flight. When a reader comes a word he doesn’t know ask him, “Is there a pattern in that word that you already know?” Locate the pattern together and help the child read the new word based off the pattern from the known word. Struggling readers, especially, need this process to be modeled for them over and over so they can understand how word patterns relate and how to apply this strategy.

http://thisreadingmama.com/2014/02/13/rhyming-words-with-older-readers/

Reading at home

Each night, I send home a book with your child to read to you. Your child has read this book four times with me, so the reading of the book should be very smooth with very few errors. The purpose of this book is for your child to celebrate what a great reader they have become! The reading of this book should only take about 5 minutes.  However, I urge you to take any extra minutes you have during your night (as a parent, I know how hard this can sometimes be to find!) to read TO your child.  Hearing you read to them will help them to hear what fluent readers sound like. It will also help your child to see that reading is a lifelong habit that is enjoyable.  Please see the research below that displays how important just reading 20 minutes per night is for your child's reading success.

Ideas for February Literacy fun!

With the cold month of February upon us, you are anything like my family, you are feeling cooped up in your homes and running out of ideas to keep your kids engaged in learning.  I found some great tips at the library of how to help your little readers continue to improve their reading and writing skills at home.
Read
-Read a book about groundhogs and go outside to see if you can see your shadow.
-Check out an I Spy book from the library and spy all of the objects in the book.
-Match pictures with the letters that they start with.
-Glue dried lentil beans onto the letters of your name that have been traced on a piece of paper.
Writing
-Make a list of friends you would like to make a Valentine for.
-Make valentine cards and write your name on each of them.
-Write the letter "O" and draw a picture inside it.