Friday Feature Week #5 – Little Reader Blocks Help Kids Learn to Read
Phonics – How Important is This Method in Teaching Kids to Read?
It has been said that learning to read is not a natural process. As Mitford Mathews said, “Words are not like tadpoles or flowers or horses. Words are man-made…” Many numbers of changes have been made throughout the years regarding the systems for teaching reading in an attempt to make learning to read easier.
In the one room school era spelling was considered very important and spelling bees were quite popular. When I was in grade school in the early 1950’s I remember participating in spelling bees; and I was quite good too.
Blocks help kids learn 100 basic sight words
5 blue verb blocks (30 verbs)
5 red pronoun blocks (30 pronouns)
3 yellow adjective blocks (18 adjectives)
2 white preposition blocks (12 prepositions)
Recognizing letters of the alphabet is the beginning of reading. Many children’s TV shows have fun ways to introduce young children to their ABC’s and their sounds.
Phonics skills are one valuable asset of learning to read and are fun for young children. Learning the letter sounds with fun pictures also helps children learn the names of animals and other objects.
Little Reader Blocks by Smart Monkey Toys are important preschool learning toys for children and belong in all homes and schools. These blocks are especially useful for English as a second language or a school that has non-English speaking children enrolled.
Because all children love playing with blocks, having blocks with the 100 basic sight words on colored blocks will make learning simple words and forming short sentences easy and will prepare them for reading books. They can also learn that some words are verbs, nouns and so forth.
When you want to teach nouns you can have the children pull out all the green blocks or blue for the verbs. The white blocks are prepositions and the yellow blocks are your adjectives and red blocks provide you with 30 pronouns. As your children learn the different words they can help point them out in the books you read to them.
It is a good idea for your school and the preschool you have your children enrolled in to have many large print books that can be read to them. Stories that have a lot of rhymes and repetition will help children learn and remember their letters, words and sounds.
After the books are read to your children leave them out where they can pick them up and look at them during fee play time. Children learning the phonics method of reading will get the idea that reading involves thinking, looking, sounding out and saying their words.
Phonemic awareness is important for both young children and English as a second language (ESL) lessons. When learning to read, students who understand the basic sounds of our language will have an easier time learning to read.
Making reading fun is important so that everyone can enjoy reading an exciting story and not get discouraged because it is too difficult. Little Reader building blocks toys will be one of your children’s favorite kids learning toys and will help them to learn over 100 basic sight words as well as different colors.
Because kids love the bright colors and any toy they can stack you will be able to make up many games to teach new words as well as colors using these blocks toys. Have your child stack all the blocks of one color – then let them knock them down. Roll the cubes like dice and have a child read the word that comes up on top.
It is essential for kindergarten children to begin writing and using the Little Reader blocks can help here also. You could put several of the blocks with the words you are teaching, such as all the green cubes (nouns) in a larger container. Have each child reach in the container and select a block. Then have them write each word on the block on his paper. You can then discuss the type of word.