Welcome to Phonological Awareness Friday. I recently discovered The Reading Genie. I found a phoneme awareness test from the Reading Genie to find out if a child is aware of sounds in words and is ready to begin spelling and reading. Click on the highlighted link to check it out.Is your child ready to read?
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Yes? Try out some flashcard learning from this blog, look in the label section, or check out my best teaching advice.
I'd like to share this resource also to let you know what to expect from a beginning reader.Ready, Set, Read just posted a fun sound matching idea this week to develop phonological awareness in young children you should check out.
by Dr. Suess to allow a child to practice the words WE, ME, HE, and NO. You will read the book to a child. Pause and point under WE, HE, ME, and NO at the beginning of sentences and when they are written in bold type at the top of the page. Make sure your child knows which words he or she is expected to read. Some children want to take over all the reading in a shared reading and get frustrated.
The story was based on some true historical events in the early 1600's. There's a small section in the back with true historical facts. The children in the story had to overcome some hardships, deal with death, run into people who were not nice, and make some hard decisions. We figured out unknown vocabulary words and made pictures in our heads. This book allowed for some good discussions. How would that make you feel? What would you have done? Can you believe someone would act like that? 
