Beginning Reading and Writing

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Beginning Reading and Writing

• For Elementary and Beginner
• English as a Foreign Language Students

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Components of Reading

• Phonics
• Zoo Phonics
• Onsets and Rimes
• Sight Words
• Dolch Words
• Word Walls
• Comprehension
• Graphic Organizers
• Realia and Visuals

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Remembering Letters and Letter Sounds

• Remember Brain Based Learning
• We need to make this visual, auditory,
• and kinesthetic.
• We need to connect new knowledge to background
  knowledge.

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Zoo Phonics and Tailor It

• You can start with a program like Zoo Phonics
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vI190o_z0HCI
• But remember to tailor it for your country and
  words your students already know.
• A for alligator
• E for elephant

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Letter Sounds

• Dont forget the hand signs!
• You can have contests to see who can do the
  vowels fastest.
• Later your students will spell with hand signs!
  Its more fun!
• Another good phonics program from England
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?veCjJYB07aSU

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On Sets and Rimes

• Everyone knows what rhyming words are!
• The first letter or letters are called the onset
• While the part that repeats is called the rime.

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Onsets and Rimes

• Using onsets and rimes is one of the fastest
  approaches to teaching reading.
• Start with easy words like at and an.
• Then add words that rhyme with it like bat, etc.
• Students will understand that if they can
  recognize at, they can say and recognize bat,
  etc.

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Online books for Onsets and Rimes

• Website with lots of activities
• http//www.wordway.us.com/FamilySets/Toonsat.pdf
• Little Readers
• http//www.littlebooklane.com/ArRdr.pdf

Website with lots of activities http//www.wordwa
y.us.com/FamilySets/Toonsat.pdf Little
Readers http//www.littlebooklane.com/ArRdr.pdf
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Dolch Words

• This list of words is the 230 words most often
  used in English
• http//www.dolchsightwords.org/dolch_word_list_pre
  -primer.php
• ..\Desktop\Dolch Sight Words.doc

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Word Walls

• Now you are ready to build a Word Wall
• Word Walls can be used in many ways
• Set them up to teach Sight Words
• Set them up to teach onsets and rimes
• Put different items together such as colors or
  numbers

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Examples of Word Walls
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Computer Word Wall
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Using Adjectives Pick a better word!
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Little Books for Comprehension and Graphic
Organizers

• Make little books with your students.
• Show them how to make a graphic organizer
  Bubble Map
• Make organizers for colors, seasons, clothes,
  holidays, family, etc. on each page

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Graphic Organizerfor Henry and Mudge
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Little Books and Graphic Organizers

• While you are reading, have your students fill in
  their graphic organizers.
• Next have the students work in pairs or groups
  and make large posters of the organizers and
  place them on the wall.

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Comprehension

• Now you are ready to read to your students using
  these skills
• Pick a book that has good pictures
• Pick a book that you or your students can act
  out.
• Find one that teaches something in your
  curriculum like seasons, colors, holidays.

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Comprehension

• While reading your book, point out pictures and
  act out the story.
• Have your students play characters
• Do a picture walk
• What do you see in the picture on each page?
• What season do you think it is - predict

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WritingSentences

• After you have finished reading and completing
  your graphic organizers, you can introduce
  sentences.
• Use sentence starters
• I like Christmas because__________
• The colors I see at Christmas are____
• Christmas is in the season of________

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Flip Books to Make
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Writing Sentences

• Have your students use the Word Wall and Graphic
  Organizers to complete their sentence starters
• For older and more advanced students
• Ask for a sentence and write it on the board.

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Writing Sentences

• Have students help you to write five sentences on
  the board using the Word Wall and the graphic
  organizers.
• Then have them write five sentences of their own.

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Writing

• Have your students use the Word Wall to remember
  words
• To help with spelling
• To put sentences together
• To learn pronunciation.
• To learn how to rhyme words

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Beginning Reading and Writing

• Barbara Williams Dusterhoff
• English Language Specialist/Fellow
• United States Department of State
• bdusterhoff_at_hotmail.com