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'How to Teach ALL Children to Read, Write and Spell with Confidence' Instructional DVD for sale- $79
- please note that this is not a professionally created DVD. Due to the high number of requests for an instructional DVD (with focus on phonics, and especially for parents of young children) the Read Australia™ Director has videoed this herself, to offer our site visitors something before our
'official' video is released.

This DVD is suitable for parents and teachers and includes
footage of children aged 5 and 7 who are learning to read and spell.
One is having some difficulties and Emma discusses what her parents
and teacher could now focus on, to fill the gaps in her learning.

You wil also see activities using a made up alphabet that show why it is
so important that children are taught the code- and specifically 'sounds'
rather than letter names.

You will see the ways in which sounds can be represented on paper- and
which parts of the written code are used more than others.

Learn what skills children need to learn in order to be confident readers-
and to be good at spelling even nonsense words and words
never heard of before.

A few popular programs such as Jolly Phonics and
Superphonics are mentioned as well as recommended de-codable readers.

A percentage of procedes will go into our free services and resources for
parents- including the Parents Aboard program. Thank you for your support.

 

Empowering parents and teachers - sharing research and useful information
relating to the teaching of reading worldwide, with a focus on Australia

When is a good time to start teaching children to read?

A child begins learning at birth.
Early experiences with spoken and written language set the stage for a child to
become a successful reader. The more you talk, read and interact with your child, the better chance he has to become a good reader. A good time to
start teaching your child about letters and sounds is when he begins to talk.

When a child learns about print and books and how they are used, this is called
print awareness. He becomes familiar with the idea that the words he sees in
print are related to the words he speaks. For example, words can be
seen in books or on billboards.

What is alphabetic knowledge?

When a child begins knowing the names and shapes of letters this is called
alphabetic knowledge.

What is phonological awareness?

When a child begins to understand that sentences are made up of words, and words have parts called syllables, he is beginning to develop phonological awareness which is the ability to learn about sounds of spoken language.

What is phonemic awareness?

When a child also understands that spoken words are made up of separate small sounds, he is developing phonemic awareness. These individual sounds in spoken language are called phonemes. For example, there are three phonemes (or sounds) in the word big, /b/, /i/, and /g/. (A letter between slash marks shows the sound that the letter represents, not the name of the letter).

Phonics is when a reader learns to use letter/sound relationships to form
words and is able to recognize words when he sees them.

Blending is when the reader puts together sounds to make words.

When the child takes spoken words apart sound by sound.

Phonics instruction is when the instructor helps the beginning reader see the relationship between sounds of spoken language and letters of written language. Understanding these relationships gives the child a tool that he can use to recognize familiar words and figure out words he hasn't seen before.

At Read Australia we target parents- and especially parents of pre-school aged children- as YOU (the parent) are the best person to teach them before they start school!
We have found that not all QLD schools are offering 'readers' that are
created using phonics- so the children are guessing or memorising
rather than de-coding.

If your child is coming home with 'sight words' ie whole words (flash cards) - please consider this a red flag. Check your child is being taught in ways that are in line with the officail government report- the AU Inquiriy intho the Teaching of Literacy (2005)

Instead, children should be learning that the sounds we use within words can be represented by sound pictures or sound symbols (a, b, c etc - sounds not letter names) and that put together we can create words. This is a very basic explanation, however the message here is that if they learn
how to de-code words- both real and nonsense-ad how to create words because thy know what sound pictures/ symbols(or combinations) represent these sounds they can de-code- and spell- any word!
There are very few words that cant be de-coded- so why teach whole words- the
brain can only memorise so many. Keep it simple!


Ph Emma for more info 07 5510 9960

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