Reading
Reading Skills and Strategies
Useful reading skills and strategies that will help you enhance your reading process...
Teacher's Reading Program Receives National Recognition
While working out the bugs in a traditional reading program, a Christian educator develops a new—and successful—reading instruction initiative.
Dr. Seuss Hits the Road to Promote Reading Across America
The NEA’s Read Across America tour is a nationwide initiative that promotes reading every day by touring the country in "Cat-a-Van" buses that carry books to children, and the Cat in the Hat leads the way.
The Reading Habit
Despite being educated and brought up in a rational society, there are times when we fail to understand the difference between intelligence and wisdom! Perhaps it’s only when you observe and understand the world around you, do you realize that difference can be altered for increasing your pace of the learning curve.
Getting Children to Comment and Question During Read Aloud
Dads should welcome children's comments and ideas at any time during a read aloud session, not only at the end of a book. Being active can increase children's understanding, enjoyment and learning.
Ask Questions, but Don't Make Reading Aloud Into a Test
Dads should ask lots of questions, but stay away from too many teacher-type questions that make read aloud time into a test.
Children Reading Aloud With Us
As children's reading ability improves, they may want to read aloud with us, starting off with just saying a word or two that they recognize. Read aloud time can be a special time in dad's relationship with their kids.
Encourage Children to Select Variety of Books to Read Aloud
You can start to read to your kids at ANY age. It's fun for the kids and dad. It really is a dad duty!
Everyday Phonics for Successful Reading
Preschoolers learn more each day as they have fun with you. The fourth of my five secrets of child literacy.
Beginning a Read Aloud Session
Read aloud time can be a special time in dad's relationship with their kids. This time spent together can build an enduring bond.
Give Children a Choice for Read-Aloud Books
One phrase to keep in mind is "Follow in order to lead." In other words, dads need to observe and listen to children in order to better lead them to enjoy reading. One way to follow children in order to lead them is to involve them in choosing the books that you read to them.
Teaching Reading - 3 Simple Ways To Teach Your Child To Read
If you follow these three simple steps you can teach your child to read. Teaching reading is as simple as exposing them to the world of literacy, reading to them, and giving them the tools they need to become literate.
Reading Games Teach Fun Phonics
Preschoolers learn reading skills as they play games with you. The third of my five secrets of child literacy.
Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 2
Teachers in a wide range of subject areas at secondary schools, colleges, and universities are discovering what their colleagues in the teaching of literature have long known about the power of reading aloud to capture their students’ attention and to stimulate their thirst for learning.
Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 1
Not everyone stops reading to children after they have learned to read for themselves. We know several secondary school teachers who regularly read aloud to students.
Guide for Dads: Never too Late to Start Reading Aloud
What if we did not read to children before they went to elementary school? Is it too late to start? No, it is never too late to start, even if the children are in secondary school.
Guide for Dads: Reading Aloud to Older Kids
Experts on language teaching recommend reading aloud for all ages of students. Everyone – we adults included – enjoys being read to. However, some older children may feel that we are treating them like little kids if we read aloud to them.
Fast Phonics and Where to Begin
Having fun with phonics. The second of my five secrets of child literacy
Social and Emotional Reasons for Dads to Read Aloud to their Children
Reading is important for dads to do for many reasons: for enjoyment, for knowledge, for participation in society, for helping the next generation and for economic well-being. For instance, researchers in the U.S. found that people who read better and more often normally have higher income levels. The two need to go together: the ability to read and a love for reading.
Importance of Reading to be Successful
If you’re like most people, you think sub-prime is dead. You think you can’t make any money nowadays in sub-prime, and you’re 100% wrong!
Career Development: Improve Reading Skills for Career Success
Your long term career development will be the sum of your reading over the next five years, and the five years after that. Who knows after ten years someone may develop an implanted chip that will substitute for reading. But for now, reading is the name of the game. After five years don’t be the person who is known as the one who ate 2114 Krispy Kreme donuts and read two books, and one had a lot of pictures.
Learning To Read: Reading Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
Reading is a wonderful way to bond with your children and provides memories they will carry with them all their lives. Proficiency in reading, more than any other skill, increases their potential for success in school and as an adult.
Learning To Read: Why Is Rhyme Important?
While learning to read is difficult and challenging for most children, rhyme can help make the task both easier and more fun, teach important language skills, and teach language patterns and structure. These three benefits are important reasons to make rhyme a part of your child's early childhood.
Learning To Read: How do you raise a reader?
You can help your child learn to read by modeling reading, reading to your child, exploiting your child's interests, having fun with words, and showing that books contain answers.
Learning To Read: Why You Should Give Your Child Reading Lessons
You should give your child reading lessons because you should be a part of this important step in your child's development, you are the best equipped person to teach your child, and you do not have to do it alone. Teaching your child to read can be fun and rewarding for you both.
Reading Programs: Does your child need one to learn to read?
If you employ these five simple steps then you can teach your child to read without purchasing an expensive reading program. You can make your own materials at home, glean materials to use from the internet, or borrow materials from your local public library. You do not need to spend one dime on these free reading lessons except whatever you choose to purchase to build your child's personal library of books.
5 Tips to Passing the RICA for California Teachers
One of the keys to your teaching career is the successful passing of the California State required Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination. Preparation for the RICA must be taken seriously. Here are some tips on how to study for this rite of passage.
Reading bit by bit
Technology and gadgets seem to be taking away our leisure time instead of giving us more. Catching up on reading for pleasure seems to have taken a back seat. Here's a novel way of getting some reading done. Reading Classics that you did not manage to do in college or since.
Teach Your Child To Love Reading
Providing positive, enjoyable literacy experiences give young children opportunities to gain the knowledge, awareness, skills, and love of learning that they need to later learn to read independently. Here are 8 ways you can provide those experiences...
Teach your child phonological awareness
Phonological awareness skills are key to reading success...
Teach Your Child The Alphabet
One of the first steps in becoming a successful reader is to learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet.
Expose your child to the written word
Immerse your child in literacy by talking, reading, singing, pretending, and playing and you will have done a great deal to prepare your child to become a reader.
Why You Should Read To Your Child
There are a number of reasons why you should read to your child.
'Reading along' is a simple way to promote literacy
Get to know how BookZap.com is going to staunch the flow of illiteracy.
Let's Read! The Benefits of Reading to Your Children
Parents, when you help your children learn to read, you help them open the door to a big, exciting world. As a parent, you can begin an endless learning chain like this: You read to your children, they develop a love of stories and poems, they want to read on their own, they practice reading, and finally, they read for their own information or pleasure. When children become readers, their world is forever wider and richer.
How Do You Read to a Child When You Can't Always Be There?
Being the parent or grandparent of a young child is an important and special time in one's life. It's your opportunity to forge the loving bonds that will always connect families, no matter the distance that separates them. And for today's families, separation is a big issue.
Dads should welcome children's comments and ideas at any time during a read aloud session, not only at the end of a book. Being active can increase children's understanding, enjoyment and learning.
Ask Questions, but Don't Make Reading Aloud Into a Test
Dads should ask lots of questions, but stay away from too many teacher-type questions that make read aloud time into a test.
Children Reading Aloud With Us
As children's reading ability improves, they may want to read aloud with us, starting off with just saying a word or two that they recognize. Read aloud time can be a special time in dad's relationship with their kids.
Encourage Children to Select Variety of Books to Read Aloud
You can start to read to your kids at ANY age. It's fun for the kids and dad. It really is a dad duty!
Everyday Phonics for Successful Reading
Preschoolers learn more each day as they have fun with you. The fourth of my five secrets of child literacy.
Beginning a Read Aloud Session
Read aloud time can be a special time in dad's relationship with their kids. This time spent together can build an enduring bond.
Give Children a Choice for Read-Aloud Books
One phrase to keep in mind is "Follow in order to lead." In other words, dads need to observe and listen to children in order to better lead them to enjoy reading. One way to follow children in order to lead them is to involve them in choosing the books that you read to them.
Teaching Reading - 3 Simple Ways To Teach Your Child To Read
If you follow these three simple steps you can teach your child to read. Teaching reading is as simple as exposing them to the world of literacy, reading to them, and giving them the tools they need to become literate.
Reading Games Teach Fun Phonics
Preschoolers learn reading skills as they play games with you. The third of my five secrets of child literacy.
Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 2
Teachers in a wide range of subject areas at secondary schools, colleges, and universities are discovering what their colleagues in the teaching of literature have long known about the power of reading aloud to capture their students’ attention and to stimulate their thirst for learning.
Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 1
Not everyone stops reading to children after they have learned to read for themselves. We know several secondary school teachers who regularly read aloud to students.
Guide for Dads: Never too Late to Start Reading Aloud
What if we did not read to children before they went to elementary school? Is it too late to start? No, it is never too late to start, even if the children are in secondary school.
Guide for Dads: Reading Aloud to Older Kids
Experts on language teaching recommend reading aloud for all ages of students. Everyone – we adults included – enjoys being read to. However, some older children may feel that we are treating them like little kids if we read aloud to them.
Fast Phonics and Where to Begin
Having fun with phonics. The second of my five secrets of child literacy
Social and Emotional Reasons for Dads to Read Aloud to their Children
Reading is important for dads to do for many reasons: for enjoyment, for knowledge, for participation in society, for helping the next generation and for economic well-being. For instance, researchers in the U.S. found that people who read better and more often normally have higher income levels. The two need to go together: the ability to read and a love for reading.
Importance of Reading to be Successful
If you’re like most people, you think sub-prime is dead. You think you can’t make any money nowadays in sub-prime, and you’re 100% wrong!
Career Development: Improve Reading Skills for Career Success
Your long term career development will be the sum of your reading over the next five years, and the five years after that. Who knows after ten years someone may develop an implanted chip that will substitute for reading. But for now, reading is the name of the game. After five years don’t be the person who is known as the one who ate 2114 Krispy Kreme donuts and read two books, and one had a lot of pictures.
Learning To Read: Reading Tips for Parents of Preschoolers
Reading is a wonderful way to bond with your children and provides memories they will carry with them all their lives. Proficiency in reading, more than any other skill, increases their potential for success in school and as an adult.
Learning To Read: Why Is Rhyme Important?
While learning to read is difficult and challenging for most children, rhyme can help make the task both easier and more fun, teach important language skills, and teach language patterns and structure. These three benefits are important reasons to make rhyme a part of your child's early childhood.
Learning To Read: How do you raise a reader?
You can help your child learn to read by modeling reading, reading to your child, exploiting your child's interests, having fun with words, and showing that books contain answers.
Learning To Read: Why You Should Give Your Child Reading Lessons
You should give your child reading lessons because you should be a part of this important step in your child's development, you are the best equipped person to teach your child, and you do not have to do it alone. Teaching your child to read can be fun and rewarding for you both.
Reading Programs: Does your child need one to learn to read?
If you employ these five simple steps then you can teach your child to read without purchasing an expensive reading program. You can make your own materials at home, glean materials to use from the internet, or borrow materials from your local public library. You do not need to spend one dime on these free reading lessons except whatever you choose to purchase to build your child's personal library of books.
5 Tips to Passing the RICA for California Teachers
One of the keys to your teaching career is the successful passing of the California State required Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination. Preparation for the RICA must be taken seriously. Here are some tips on how to study for this rite of passage.
Reading bit by bit
Technology and gadgets seem to be taking away our leisure time instead of giving us more. Catching up on reading for pleasure seems to have taken a back seat. Here's a novel way of getting some reading done. Reading Classics that you did not manage to do in college or since.
Teach Your Child To Love Reading
Providing positive, enjoyable literacy experiences give young children opportunities to gain the knowledge, awareness, skills, and love of learning that they need to later learn to read independently. Here are 8 ways you can provide those experiences...
Teach your child phonological awareness
Phonological awareness skills are key to reading success...
Teach Your Child The Alphabet
One of the first steps in becoming a successful reader is to learn to recognize the letters of the alphabet.
Expose your child to the written word
Immerse your child in literacy by talking, reading, singing, pretending, and playing and you will have done a great deal to prepare your child to become a reader.
Why You Should Read To Your Child
There are a number of reasons why you should read to your child.
'Reading along' is a simple way to promote literacy
Get to know how BookZap.com is going to staunch the flow of illiteracy.
Let's Read! The Benefits of Reading to Your Children
Parents, when you help your children learn to read, you help them open the door to a big, exciting world. As a parent, you can begin an endless learning chain like this: You read to your children, they develop a love of stories and poems, they want to read on their own, they practice reading, and finally, they read for their own information or pleasure. When children become readers, their world is forever wider and richer.
How Do You Read to a Child When You Can't Always Be There?
Being the parent or grandparent of a young child is an important and special time in one's life. It's your opportunity to forge the loving bonds that will always connect families, no matter the distance that separates them. And for today's families, separation is a big issue.