Brief Summary
This webinar explains how children learn to read, emphasizing the importance of phonological awareness, letter-sound knowledge (phonics), and consistent practice within a supportive environment. It highlights the sequential and systematic nature of effective phonics instruction, building from basic to advanced concepts.
- Phonological awareness is the foundation of reading.
- Phonics instruction should be systematic, sequential, cumulative, and explicit.
- Regular practice and a positive environment are crucial for developing strong reading skills.
The webinar introduces the topic of how children learn to read, a fundamental skill taught early in education. It acknowledges that while reading seems innate to many adults, teaching it requires understanding the underlying processes. The session aims to explore these processes to aid in teaching or raising children.
Children begin learning to read with phonological awareness, which involves recognizing and manipulating sounds in words. This skill is foundational, enabling children to rhyme, break up syllables, and blend sounds. Activities to develop phonological awareness include rhyming exercises using stories and poems, and syllable identification through clapping.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and separate individual sounds in spoken words. Activities include identifying the first or last sound in a word, removing a sound from a word, and changing a sound to create a new word. Mastering these pre-reading skills is crucial for later reading and spelling success.
Learning letters and their corresponding sounds is essential for reading education. A clear understanding of the alphabet helps children piece words together and pronounce them correctly. Phonics connects letters with sounds, enabling students to decode and spell words. Effective phonics instruction is systematic, sequential, cumulative, and explicit, building from simple to complex concepts like consonant sounds, short vowels, digraphs, blends, long vowels, syllable patterns, and affixes.
Regular practice and encouragement are vital for learning to read. Consistent practice helps children master key concepts and develop a lifelong reading habit. Creating a patient, understanding, and positive environment supports children through the potentially frustrating early stages of learning to read.
The webinar concludes by thanking the audience and providing resources for further learning about how children learn to read, including The Pride Reading Program website and social media channels.
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0:00 hello and welcome to the pride reading program webinar series we are really excited you've joined us today for our topic how children learn to read reading is one of the most valuable skills we teach children which is why it is one of the first core skills we teach in school this particular skill is so common that most adults don't even remember learning to read for many of us it seems as if the skill has always been there of course when it comes to teaching or raising children we have to revisit the process so sit back and enjoy as we explore today's topic how children learn to read when children learn to read they begin with phonological awareness phonological awareness involves being able to hear
0:46 and recognize the different sounds within words it is the foundation of reading without this crucial skill a child cannot learn to read children that have strong phonological awareness are able to do things like rhyming breaking up syllables and blending sounds to form words children need to recognize the sounds Rhythm and rhyme involving spoken words before they can begin to read rhyming children can learn rhyming skills through listening and reading rhyming stories or poems with an instructor for example while reading a rhyming Story the instructor might say did you hear a word that rhymes with dog or the instructor might have the child close their eyes and say I am going to
1:32 say two words if they rhyme raise your hand if they don't shake your head syllables children can learn how to identify syllables by clapping the number of beats in a word for example a child might Clap the number of syllables in their own name like Jason you can also clap out the days of the week Tuesday the months of the year September and fun words like cucumber or Cinderella phonemic awareness phonemic awareness means that your child is able to hear and separate the individual sounds in spoken words for example the instructor may ask to identifying a specific sound in a word what is the first sound you hear in the word mop what is the last sound you hear
2:17 in the word mop or removing a sound from a word say the word bit without the B sound or changing a sound to another sound in a word say pin change the P sound to the W sound phonological awareness is highly related to later success in reading and spelling and children therefore need to master these pre-reading skills before learning to read before a child can learn how to read words they must start their reading education by learning the letters and sounds a clear understanding of the alphabet is essential for helping children learn how to piece words together it also plays a vital role in pronunciation Learners start with letters as an introductory step
3:04 phonics is a method of teaching students how to connect the letters with the sounds and how to use this letter sound relationship to read and spell words phonics is a key component of reading because decoding is the foundation upon which all reading instruction is billed lessons are built on previously taught information from simple to complex with clear concise student objectives that are driven by ongoing assessment for example consonant and short vowel sounds then digraphs and blends followed by long vowels and other vowel patterns syllable patterns affixes and so on the most effective phonics instruction is based on the science of reading meaning it is systematic sequential
3:49 cumulative and explicit each individual skill is taught in isolation beginning with the most basic levels of phonics and developing into the most advanced spelling rules and morphological Concepts step by step the explicit instruction in phonics is carefully built around a scope and sequence this scope and sequence dictate the order in which each concept or skill is taught learning to read requires regular practice and encouragement the more practice children receive the more likely they Master these key concepts with time regular practice can become a lifelong reading habit to support learning and help children develop strong reading skills parents
4:35 and teachers should focus on creating a positive environment for practice for many children learning to read is frustrating before it is rewarding creating a patient understanding and positive environment helps children feel supported while learning to read thank you so much for joining us today we hope you found this webinar on how children learn to read helpful if you'd like to learn more about how children learn to read The Pride reading program and other resources please visit our website at pridereadingprogram.com and don't forget to share and follow the pride reading program on Facebook Instagram and Linkedin to get notified when the next Pride reading program webinar is released
