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TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ



Error report or correction By Estella De Los Santos and Barba Patton Originally published January 4, 2014 at midnight, updated January 4, 2014 at midnight Once a child can count from one to 100 and read numbers, learning about place value should follow to help ensure future success in mathematics. A fun way of teaching children about place value is using items that represent units or ones, such as beans.


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USING COMICS TO TEACH CHILDREN TO READ



Nadja Spiegelman Hilary Knight Knight had another reason for wanting to illustrate for Toon Books . He was a fan of Toon Books Editorial Director Francoise Mouly, who is also the art director at The New Yorker, and her husband, Art Spiegelman. I couldnt be more thrilled, and it got me into her office, Knight said.

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TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ-WITH HELP FROM SOME DOGS



Kids gradually learn different letters and their sounds, and then combine them to sound out words as they go. Along the way, they earn prizes (such as cakes, jello, hats and even underwear for their monsters to wear) and work towards fixing their monsters' space ships to send them home at the end of the game.

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HOW TO TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ ONLINE FOR FREE



Use the Meet the Sight Words DVD program levels 1 through 3. View the DVDs with your child consistently until your child can recognize all the sight words. Use Meet the Sight Words books or other books based on the series for reading practice with your child. If your child has learned all the sight words in the Meet the Sight Words DVD set, he or she will be able to successfully read the books that accompany the series.

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TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ TEACHES KIDS TO READ FOR FREE



there were no signs of fear after the first few minutes. Also on that day, two granddaughters visiting from Arizona had come with their grandmother who lived in the area. They had begged their grandparents to delay that day's trip to Disneyland. Their priority had been getting to the library to read to the dogs.

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MEET THE SIGHT WORDS: HOW TO TEACH A CHILD TO READ



Those kids who played the 'action' game improved their reading time by 0.39 syllables per secondPhoto: Rex Features By Nick Collins , Science Correspondent 5:00PM GMT 28 Feb 2013 Comments After just 12 hours of gameplay, dyslexic children were able to read an additional 0.39 syllables per second than they could previously an improvement that would take them more a year to develop naturally. The games were found to produce slightly faster improvements than traditional sound and spelling-based teaching methods and were equally as effective as "letter-to-speech integration" courses, another form of training for dyslexic pupils. Playing games which require children to follow fast-moving events, track moving objects and pay attention to all areas of the screen teaches them to draw meaning from written words, researchers explained. Dr Andrea Facoetti of the University of Padua in Italy, who led the study, said: "Action video games enhance many aspects of visual attention, mainly improving the extraction of information from the environment.

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VIDEO GAMES 'TEACH DYSLEXIC CHILDREN TO READ'



Visual representation of sound letter correspondence is also beneficial. Elkonin boxes are an easy way to show this relationship. The adult draws connected boxes to represent each sound in a word and then fills each box with the letters that produce the sound. For the word show, the adult draws two boxes, placing the letters sh in the first box and the letter o in the second box.

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READ WITH YOUR CHILD



It is one of the most hotly debated areas in education, dubbed by some as The Reading Wars. At issue are two dramatically different teaching methods.

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If your child loves to play games online anyway, use that interest to help her learn to read or to strengthen her reading skills. Step 1 Read together online.

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