8/7/2023 0 Comments Kindergarten reading lessons![]() ![]() And since the books are generally simple, Kindergarten is a GREAT place to introduce and practice these strategies! This pushes kids to use other strategies, such as beginning and ending sounds, inference, and picture clues. For example, in any given book, children may see CVC words along with sight words and some totally unknown words as well. Yet another reason to do guided reading in Kindergarten is to give children a chance to practice integrating the skills they have acquired by the last trimester. It Gives Kids a Chance to Integrate Reading Skills & Strategies Those are exactly the types of children that really need to do guided reading- so that they can practice applying what they have learned- which is reading those words in other places. You may have noticed that sometimes children learn to read the sight words, but can ONLY recognize them on the flash cards that they practiced them on- and can’t recognize them anywhere else! These children have practiced pure memorization and need to apply what they’ve learned. It Gives Kids a Chance to Apply their SkillsĪnother reason to do guided reading in Kindergarten is to give the children a chance to APPLY the skills that they are learning. ![]() These are not just random, isolated skills these are skills that will unlock the fun of reading a book! Guided reading in Kindergarten also helps children see the PURPOSE of learning the alphabet, letter sounds, and those sight words that we spend so long learning! It also gives them a reason to learn how to sound out words. It Shows the Purpose of the Skills We Teach This process builds the children’s confidence, and helps them see themselves as readers. Think about it: did your parents wait to begin reading to you until you knew the alphabet and 50 sight words? Of course not! And what we are doing with guided reading in Kindergarten in the very beginning stages is simply sharing a simple book together, enjoying the pictures, talking about it, and finding some letters or words we might know. They might not even know more than just a few sight words, too! All of that really doesn’t matter. First, let’s talk about WHY it’s important to do guided reading with children that might not even know the entire alphabet yet.
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