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Reading to an infant and toddler is very important for early development. However, reading to an infant is different than reading to a young child. In terms of an infant, you frequently do not get through the entire book. An infant won’t be able to fully comprehend what is being read. Infants may want to hold the book and chew on it or try turning pages themselves. All of these actions are appropriate and help your child become well-known with books and how to handle them. Reading out loud to your baby is an ac activity that can enhance their vocabulary among other skills.

Shared book reading focuses on developing comprehension, alphabetics, and general reading achievement to enhance student literacy achievement. The teacher selects a text and reads it aloud to a student and/or group of students. The shared book reading program allows the teacher to model reading strategies, increase alphabetic skills, and activate and increase comprehension skills through targeted questions, prompts, and strategies. During the reading the teacher prompts students with strategic prompts and/or questions to engage the students in the text. Moreover, the teacher directs the students to key elements within the pictures, words, and/or text features. The teacher tailors the shared reading experience to meet the needs of the participants (International Reading Association Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Committee, 2012). Hence, educators are able to alter prompts, questions, and strategies to enhance the learning needs of

Books like chicka chicka boom boom By: Bill Martin Jr This is a great book for beginner readers who are learning to read. It show’s the letters of the Alphabet in a way that is fun for kids. My daughter truly loved this book. We read this book all the time. There is also a little cartoon that goes along with this book. Which is pretty cute to watch.

For an example I give a child a book to look at, sit with her and read the words with her. I let her say the word first and if she doesn’t know it I will discuss it, let her say it, talk about it and then move onto the next. Then maybe a few days later sit with the same book and again encourage her to say the words, if she get stuck on the same words again then remind her how we discussed it before.

In duet reading, a stronger reader is paired with a less-fluent reader. The stronger reader sets the pace and provides visual tracking by moving his or her finger below each word as it is read in unison. In audio-recorded books, the student reads aloud with an audio-recorded version of a book. The purpose is to encourage the weaker reader to read along with the tape. In echo reading, the adult reads a short passage and then invites the child to “Say what I say” or “Copy me,” encouraging the child to repeat what the adult has read (Robertson & Davig, 2002). In this way, the adult models fluent reading and then provides the child with an opportunity for immediate practice. In paired reading, children who are struggling with reading fluency are paired up with a more capable reader. In this strategy, the fluent reader and reader take turns reading by lines or pages (Mathes, Fuchs, Fuchs, Henley, & Sanders, 1994).

The book that I chose for this discussion is ABC”s by Dr.Seuss. I used to read it all the times to my kids when they were a lot smaller. This is a classic Dr. Seuss book that introduces the alphabet to its readers. And it also shows its readers the differences in capitalization and lowercase and encourages a strong sense of imagination. The book creates a detailed lesson of going through the alphabet. It starts off with the letter A and finishes with the letter Z.

Overall, the read aloud lesson was a great experience in which I learned many aspects about myself. I believe that conducting more read aloud lessons would help me improve in tone and fluency for reading. Also, in my opinion, an interactive read aloud is a great way to assess students’ knowledge of the central message of a book. I will use the interactive read aloud lesson in my future classroom ever change I get to help my students be

I believe that reading is an important way for children to learn. However, there has to be a combination of everything. The primary goal of language and literacy during the infant and toddler years is to help children hear and distinguish the sounds of language in their environment (p.44). I believe that children need to play in order to develop their fine, gross, and other skills. The need to explore and the experience will help them to self-regulate their emotions. According to the article, the most effective ways to prepare your baby for reading involve playing games and sharing book, and repeating words.

Reading was so important in our house, in 1979 my parents scraped the money together to purchase a copy of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. It came with a couple of extra volumes that included books about nursery rhymes, arts and crafts, and games kids could enjoy.

A doctor once said ‘the more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go’. That doctor was, of course, Dr Suess in his book 1978 book, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!. Reading is the orchestration of many skills. It is much more than simply decoding words. The National Reading Panel Report (A Closer Look, 2004, p. 1) summarised a child’s reading process and teachers’ effective reading instruction into five essential components. These five critical elements are phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Each element is individually important; however, each cannot occur independently of one an other. The most effective way to teach these elements is through a balanced

Beginning with phonics is an important factor when learning to read. Having the alphabet around the room with examples are ways that helped me connect letters and sounds. Other ways to teach student’s to find connections with letters and sounds are rhyme books, poem books, and songs. Showing my student’s the passion and enthusiasm for reading will encourage students to be passionate readers. I would model this by reading aloud to my student’s daily for a short period of time. After reading we will discuss what we read and our feelings on the subject. Learning vocabulary and expanding student’s word knowledge is something I want my students to explore. I want to introduce students to multiple genres and to be able to find meanings and structure to the words and sounds. I believe by enhancing student’s vocabulary it helps them to become better communicators in the future. I can promote vocabulary my displaying word walls and having a library and dictionaries available around the

Learning to read is a valuable and important skill that children acquire from a very early age. Children gain an understanding of the different sounds in our spoken language from a wide range of different experiences and social interaction with their environment. For example, singing and saying rhymes, sharing books, making and listening to music, pretend play, listening to adults and joining in conversations etc ect. as mentioned by Vygotsky (1978)

Research has consistently shown that that reading books to children has a positive effect on literacy outcomes in the following ways:

Reading to a child has a tremendous impact on their language development. The more a child is read to the more connections are made in the brain. Rereading the same book helps the child make connections between the way the words look and sound.

Swanson et al. (2011) conducted a meta-analysis, A Synthesis of Read-Aloud Interventions on Early Reading Outcomes Among Preschool Through Third Graders at Risk for Reading Difficulties, to determine which interventions were the most useful for preschoolers to third graders who were at risk for reading difficulties. Their research examined the effects of five read-aloud interventions, which included: dialogic reading, repeated reading, limited questioning, computer assisted, and extended vocabulary (pg. 261).