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Pre-K Reading Readiness

In my last article, A Day in the Schoolroom, I pretty much covered our startup routine of pledge, prayer, charts, calendar time, etc.  I also described our Religion program simply and fairly completely.  So it seems the first subject to cover in detail is Reading; what are we doing to get a 4 year old ready to read?

Well, of course, we read!  Poetry by Robert Louis Stephenson, A Child's Garden of Verses is still one of the best.  Mother Goose, and other classic children's poetry.  Stories - fairy tales, Aesop's Fables, Three Bears, Three Pigs, etc.  Books of his choice - Disney Golden Books, Dr. Suess, Children's Bible Stories, The Little Engine That Could.  Books of mom's choice - James Herriot's children's stories like The Market Square Dog, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, The Book of Virtues.

He has become proficient at sewing cards, left-to-right activities ("reading" colors/shapes placed left to right, etc.), letter recognition, and "reading" to mom (telling the story by the pictures).  We rhyme words - what rhymes with vine, cat, book, etc.  We work on sequence, mom says three words and li'l homesteader repeats them back.  We clap  to word patterns, one clap for each syllable we speak - syl-la-ble - 3 claps.

He has begun on his own to write letters, so now he has a new notebook, and every day he copies his name and the date on a new page.  This month we will be starting a phonics program and he will be copying simple words, as we work on them, into his notebook.

So how do we fit all this into one day?  We don't.  It goes kind of like this:  Monday - poetry, short story, copy name and date, review alphabet, manipulative activity (sewing card, letter puzzle, etc.); Tuesday - coloring letter worksheets; Wednesday - poetry, copy name and date, rhyming words, read mom a story; Thursday - short story, word sequences, clapping patterns, storytime. 

And now he makes mom read all the street signs as we're driving along.

Thanks,

Mrs. D

Copyright (c) 2008 by Robyn Dolan

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