A Simple Idea To Teach Number Sense and Ten Frames To Young Learners
Teaching number sense to young children needs to be intentional and hands on if we are to reach all types of learners. In my Kindergarten class, I start teaching number sense and ten frames in the first few weeks of school which is the beginning of Fall.
5 Simple Ideas for Teaching Numbers in Preschool
Teaching number sense to early learners is one of the most important foundations you can give a preschooler or kindergartener in math. Number sense is more than just recognizing numbers. Number sense includes, knowledge of quantities, number order, sequencing and counting with a one to one correspondence and many others. It is not only important to teach young ones to count but to teach them what those numbers mean. Here are some definitions and ideas to teach these important skills.
What Is Visual Discrimination and Why Is It Important in PreK and Kindergarten?
My defining moment as an educator was in one of my first graduate courses. My professor gave us a decodable book she had created with symbols. As we started reading, we had to continue to look back to the first page to remember what letter of the alphabet was represented by which symbol. MY HEAD HURT and my stomach churned a little! This is what it must have been like for my then second graders who were trying to learn how to read! WOW !
Teaching Sight Words- Using Multisensory Sight Word Activities
I absolutely love the Orton Gillingham approach to sight words, my kindergartners do too ! If you are familiar with the program, you know that it includes crossing hemispheres with arm tapping, finger sliding, finger tracing and writing. This approach to “red words”, those that you have to STOP and think about , uses a multi sensory approach to learn these words that cannot always be decoded easily. In the rest of this post, I will give you some effective and fun ways to get the kids moving and memorizing those sight words.
How To Teach Phonemic Awareness 9 Simple Definitions and Examples
Phonemic awareness comes under the umbrella of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in a word. It is very important for students to have this skills in order to do well later with phonics and higher level reading skills. Phonemic awareness teaches us to listen for and hear the individual sounds or phonemes in a word. PA helps students with spelling and writing later on.
Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – Why Is Teaching Syllables Important and 7 Ways to Practice With Your Students
When readers understand how to break up a word in syllables, it makes it easier to read unknown words. When readers can read or “sound out” chunks , those chunks are easier to remember in our short term memory rather than remembering all the single phonemes in a word. Dividing words into chunks and blending the chunks together, speeds up the process of decoding which creates more fluent readers.
Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – 7 Ways to Teach Sound and Word Discrimination
I always believed that teaching phonological awareness skills was important, but I do not think I understood how important teaching the individual skills explicitly was to the growth and development of the new reader. …….. In this post, I will give you seven hands on ways to teach sound and word discrimination.
Why Is Teaching Phonological Awareness So Important? Skill #2 – Alliteration
. These skills are so important for all children but especially important for children with dyslexia. Maryanne gives the example of climbing a ladder, you want to start on the bottom rung and climb higher, not skip the lower rungs and try to reach the higher rungs first.
What Is Phonological Awareness and Why Is It Important? Skill 1- Rhyme
When I was about six or seven years old, my parents decided that as a family, we would learn how to ski. Of course, we did not jump on a pair of skis and head for the black diamond trails, instead, we all took lessons on the “bunny trail”. We learned how to get in […]
Is “The Science of Reading” Something New?
The best training, I ever had as a reading teacher, was my Orton Gillingham training. After I completed my master’s degree and became a reading specialist, I still felt like something was missing. I was teaching and tutoring and working with so many students who were still struggling with their reading. I fell in love with the approach because Orton Gillingham was already using direct, explicit phonics instruction.