Are You Curious to Learn More to Help Your Pre-reader Read?

Sue is a confident young mother who grew up in a home where books are cherished. Her mother read many books to her, creating loving memories that fostered her love for books. Now, she is passing on this love to her daughters. Besides reading to her girls, she actively seeks ideas that will prepare her three and five-year-old daughters to learn to read. She eagerly anticipates the day they start school and begin to read independently.

She has started to look for workshops that cater to this age group and provide solid activities to prepare them for reading confidently. A friend suggested our Facebook group, Reading Empowered, where she met us.

Driven by her curiosity to learn more about enabling her children to read, she registered for all the free workshops we were offering at the time. One of our activities sparked her girls' interest in books.

Now, we've captured her interest, and she's particularly intrigued by our phonological awareness reading readiness activities. She's heard about the significant impact these activities can have on preparing children for reading and spelling.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual sounds in words. It's a crucial skill for early readers as it aids in recognizing and decoding words.

A fun and simple activity to help children develop phonemic awareness is to use a rubber band to segment words.  While there are more basic phonological awareness exercises, we've listed one activity here:

1. To start, hold a rubber band with both hands and stretch it slightly as you sound out each sound in the word. For example, to segment the word "fish," stretch the rubber band for each sound: /f/ /i/ /sh/.

2. When you say the complete word, "fish," release the tension in the rubber band.

3. This helps children understand that words are made up of individual sounds, or phonemes.

4. This activity can be adapted for different levels of phonemic awareness. For beginners, start with simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words like "cat" or "dog.

5. Follow the Phonological Awareness Reading Readiness sequence from the beginning by clicking on the link below.

Like Sue, are you interested in engaging and enjoyable, phonological awareness, reading readiness activities that will undoubtedly enhance your children’s reading and spelling abilities?

Register today to receive your manual and the videos that teach you how to implement these activities.  This is the best opportune time for you and your child. (declarative)