All About Reading Pre-reading
Help your child master essential pre-reading skills through games, crafts, and storytime read-alouds.
$119.95
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Pre-reading
The All About Reading Pre-reading set is a perfect first step toward learning how to read. Designed for young learners in preschool through kindergarten, All About Reading Pre-reading builds a solid foundation for later reading by teaching five essential skills:
- Print Awareness (understanding how books work)
- Phonological Awareness (understanding how sounds form words)
- Letter Knowledge (learning uppercase and lowercase letters)
- Listening Comprehension (understanding stories)
- Motivation to Read (developing an enthusiasm for reading)
This is accomplished through fun short stories such as "Calico cats crunch cookies and candy," letter-based art projects, and the included simple games. Even such thorough learning feels like play.
All About Reading
All About Reading (AAR) is the multisensory, mastery-based program you’ve heard about. Suitable for all ages and with activities that benefit all learning styles, AAR teaches phonics, decoding, fluency, and comprehension in a fun and engaging way. Moving at a gentler pace than other more intense reading programs, with AAR, only one new concept is taught at a time. Their precept-upon-precept program works with all kids, and AAR’s built-in review system helps the learning stick.
Based on the Orton-Gillingham Approach, 97% of English words can be learned according to phonetic rules, leaving only 3% as sight words. The progressive introduction of letters introduces vowels with consonants in a way that will allow your child to begin reading almost immediately. We particularly like how AAR integrates phonics instruction and phonics readers into a single comprehensive program, so they correlate directly with each other.
And you will be thrilled to know that no prior training is needed. AAR has lightly scripted and illustrated “open and go” lessons that make your job easy and stress-free. Lessons are taught in short, manageable chunks. The author recommends students spend no more than 20 minutes a day learning to read, plus another 20 listening to a read-aloud.
The student activity books add variety to the lessons and provide additional support. The phonetic readers are the best we have ever seen – beautifully illustrated hardcover books with finel
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Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about this product below:
The puppet is not just an "add-on" to our program. Many lessons include a script where it helps children learn important phonological awareness skills. We use a puppet to encourage children to do the hard work needed to learn these skills--he provides motivation to learn! Kids love the addition of the puppet because he learns right along with them, making mistakes that they get to correct. So instead of just "being taught," children help their friend learn the lesson, too, making kids feel empowered, successful, and eager to learn more.
Puppets help children enjoy learning and spark their imagination. When children enjoy learning, they can pay attention longer and make stronger connections to the content they are learning--which creates better long-term retention.
A quick search of Google Scholar shows a lot of research has been done on the benefits of using Puppets as teaching aids. Here are some examples:
Puppet as a Pedagogical tool - "This study examines the potential of puppets in the educational context." Benefits found:
- (1) generating communication,
- (2) supporting a positive classroom climate,
- (3) enhancing creativity,
- (4) fostering co-operation in and integration into a group, and
- (5) changing attitudes.
- "This article presents partial results of a broader study that examined the influence of an intervention program integrating a puppet as a mediation tool on learning motivation, and enhancing literacy achievements in regular and special kindergarten children."
- "Mediation using puppets facilitated learning processes, while using puppets, children's cooperation level increased, as did interest, attention span and their involvement in learning interaction was evident."
Beyond Pinocchio: Puppets as Teaching Tools in inclusive early childhood classrooms: "Puppets, used as a tool in the instructional process, can be effective in enhancing child interest and engagement."
Puppetry activities in early childhood programmes: "This qualitative study was aimed to investigate the benefits of puppetry activities for children who were enrolled in early childhood programs....Based on the thematic analysis, it was found that the inclusion of puppetry activities in an early childhood program can boost intellect and memory; enhance creative thinking and imagination; more manageable of self-control and emotions; ensure social and interaction; allow practice in focusing; language and communication; improve physical and mental health; connected spirituality and moral values.
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