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Hi! My name is Ana.

I teach English as a foreign language for prek-12 kids in South America.

I also teach English to my sweetest student, my niece Catalina.

She is 3 years old and she lOvEs English.

I am also the author and designer of the books and games I sell here.

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Reading

Pre-reading skills are the skills children need BEFORE they can learn to read. Many of these skills are learnt naturally, during the course of a normal childhood and nursery environment. By talking and reading to your child, you will be doing a great deal to develop these essential skills.

The Pre-reading Skills

Matching - When we read, part of what we do involves matching. Children learn to match shapes, patterns, letters and, finally, words.

Rhyming - Research shows that children who can understand about rhyming words have a head start in learning to read and, even more, to spell.

Letter skills - As well as looking at letters, children need to learn what sounds the letters can make.

Direction - Print goes from left to right. We know that but children need to practise it (especially left-handed children).

Motor skills - Since reading and writing are best taught together, pencil control is important.

Concepts of print - This really means 'how we look at books'. Following print the right way, turning the pages, looking at pictures, 'where are the words...?'

Language skills - The more experience children have of language, the more easily they will learn to read. Your child needs to hear and join in conversations (with adults and children), and listen to stories and poetry of all sorts.

Reading & fun resources

reading glasses (party-glasses with colored lenses)
POINTERS:
flyswatters
rhythm sticks
flashlights
large magnifying glasses
pencils
gloves
fancy pencils
magic wands
Clipboards (can be made by using a clothespin to clip paper to a chalkboard or whiteboard)

Children use special pointers or "Word Munchers" to read thematic words, sight words, word walls, then record them on their Recording Sheet

Suggested activities:

Buddy Reading

Children read with a partner/stuffed animal from their bookbags,

and have their buddy "Autograph" their recording sheet. (They must read the book to at least 5 people, including 1 adult

Read the Room

Read the room, using a pointer or eyeglasses. Some ideas: poetry on the wall charts, the lunch line list on the door, the abc charts, the flip chart, the word wall, pocket chart, directions for other centers, student work on bulletin boards....

Attach a list of words to a key ring and the children must find these words around the room

Word Detective

Put a word list inside an easy reader (put on a tab that sticks up from the back cover) and have them use a pipecleaner bent into a magnifying glass shape to locate those words in the book. They can put their initials in a post-it inside the book to show they have done this center.

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