Teaching Reading to Young Learners

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Teaching Reading to Young Learners

• Serena Chu
• English Language Fellow
• Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi

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Some problems with reading and young learners

• Read too slowly
• Dont have enough vocabulary
• Get frustrated
• Bored
• Would rather watch TV or play video games

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So

• How do we get children excited about reading?

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Teaching Reading to Young Learners

• Get students involvedmake the reading relevant
  to them!
• Use art, music, drama, and dance
• Connect reading to other skills
• Read to them
• Give them opportunities to love reading

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Getting children involved

• Mini-books
• Sequencing stories
• Reading to children
• Activities

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Making Words
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Form new words ginger read man hand th
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Im the Gingerbread Man

• Im the Gingerbread Man and Im here to say,
• You cant catch me, no not today.
• Ive run away from a big brown horse,
• And I can run from you of course, of course.
• I took a ride on the sly foxs back.
• He ate me up for a tasty snack.
• Yum! Yum!

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Gingerbread Man Recipe

• Ingredients
• ¾ cup Crisco shortening (not oil)
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• ¼ cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 2 ¼ cups sifted flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ginger

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Gingerbread Man Recipe

• Mix all items. Refrigerate overnight. Form
  small balls (about 4 cm. diameter) to give to
  each child, so they can shape it into a man or
  woman. If they dont use it all, they can make
  cookies with it. Add M Ms for facial
  features.
• Spray Pam on individual pieces of foil that
  have been wadded up and then smoothed out.
  Write each students name on the foil with a
  permanent marker.Bake for 10 mins. at 375
  degrees Fahrenheit.
• After the gingerbreads cool, use colored
  frosting to decorate around the edges. Students
  can use plastic sandwich bags with holes cut in
  the corner. They can use cream cheese frosting
  from a can.

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Gingerbread Man Fingerplay and Chant

• Five little gingerbread men lying on a tray,
• One jumped up and ran away.
• Shouting, Catch me, catch me, catch me if you
  can
• I run really fast, Im a gingerbread man!
• (Repeat with four, three, two, one)

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Gingerbread Man Fingerplay and Chant, cont.

• No more gingerbread men lying on a tray,
• They all jumped up and ran away.
• Oh, how I wish they had stayed with me to play.
• Next time Ill eat them before they run away!

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• Sequencing cards
• Video Reading and asking reading aloud questions

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Egg carton caterpillar and caterpillar magnet
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Coffee filter butterflies

• Color the coffee filters with markers
• Place on brown paper and spray with water
• Squish and tie filters together with pipe
  cleaners or use a clothespin and stick on eyes

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The Very Hungry Student

• On Monday, ___________ ate ______________.
• On Tuesday, he/she ate __________________.

(name of student)
(one apple)
(two pancakes)
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Life cycle of a butterfly
paper bag

• You can do this on a paper plate

button
green fuzzy balls
tissue paper
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Song (sung to the tune of Addams family)

• Refrain
• My tummy is fat (snap snap)
• I like it like that (snap snap)
• I wiggle around,
• I jiggle around,
• My tummy is fat (snap snap)

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Song (sung to the tune of Addams family)

• Im a hairy caterpiller
• Im such a chubby feller
• I love to eat and eat,
• Those leaves are such a treat!
• Back to refrain

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The Little Caterpillar (to the tune of Itsy Bitsy
Spider)

• The little caterpillar climbed up into a tree
  (climb fingers)
• Spun his cocoon and slept so quietly (spin hands
  and sleep)
• All through the winter he didnt make a sound
  (shake head no with finger in front of lips)
• He dreamt of his new life when hed be flying
  around (pretend to sleep)

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The Little Caterpillar, cont.

• While he was sleeping the snow did gently fall
  (fingers wiggle down)
• Winter came and went then he heard the robins
  call Come on Mr. Butterfly, out of your cocoon!
  (hand to mouth and shout)
• Spread your wings and fly for me while I sing my
  tune. (spread arms and wave)

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What can parents and teachers do?

• Read to your children
• Take your children to the library
• Give them books as gifts
• Encourage with stickers or other rewards
• Ask them questions when reading to them (read
  aloud)

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What can parents and teachers do?

• Have students retell story after youve read it
  to them
• Integrate reading with other skills art,
  science, math, speaking, and writing

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Other ideas for teaching reading

• Have students act out parts of the book
• Characterization draw characters in groups
• Listen to books on tape
• Reading circles