Teaching With Basal Readers Basal readers (or primers) are short “textbooks” with an organized series of illustrated short stories used to teach a set of phonemes or sight words. You can find basal readers for both the phonics approach and the sight word approach. The most well known phonics-based reader is the McGuffey Reader series, which dates back to the 1860’s and is still widely used today. The most famous …
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Approaches to Teaching Reading : 10 Days of How to Teach Your Child to Read
The different approaches to teaching reading: Your pre-reader is showing the signs and the interest in learning to read, so it’s time to start, right? There are two main approaches to reading: phonics and sight word. There is also a third approach which combines the two. I tend toward the third approach, with a little more emphasis on the phonics. First, let’s take a brief look at each. What is …
Reading Readiness & Pre-Reading : 10 Days of How to Teach Your Child to Read
Ten Days of How to Teach Your Child to Read The one and only education class I took in college (before switching to a different major, which I also never finished) was a class about the fundamentals of reading. I remember thinking, “what’s the big deal? Is it really that hard to teach reading?” Fast forward a dozen years or so and I find myself teaching my own children to …