Give Your Child the Gift of Reading!
By Cheryl Hill
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Give Your Child the Gift of Reading is a tool kit, "How-To", book for teaching English reading that is explained in exact details in a simplistic manner so that homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, reading specialists, English as Second Language/Bilingual Teacher Specialists, other literacy professionals, tutors, and anyone engaging with children to impact their lives for the better will hold the key to English literacy in this one book!
Considering the decline of the United States of America's children's reading scores and its extended effect in impacting all other subject area learning’s scores comparative with children of other countries, the time has come that all hands are needed on deck to know how to empower children's reading.
This is the book that will enable those who seek to better children’s lives to thus, produce competent literacy learners in “really teaching children to read” through a gradual progression of practice activities fundamental to a basic scratch recipe to get children reading effectively in an efficient, practical manner.
Reading practice activities in this book are as follows: practice learning English alphabet- letter sounds matched to English picture words; practice blending English letter sounds into words; practice reading sentences; practice reading stories; and practice writing about what has been read in the format of letters to book characters which solidifies reading fluency and comprehension.
Inclusion of the opportunity to infuse both the practice of reading and writing through letter writing to book characters gives a simultaneously nudge for children to internalize a combination of literacy skills benefiting from authentic learning flowing from reading and providing a perfect interlink to literacy learning in all genres and/or subject areas.
As a result, children are nudged to think critically about what is read and learned. Also, enhanced thinking and reading comprehension and increased, detailed elaborative writing skills are gleaned from writings modeled in great books that children are expected to read by great authors.
Lastly, in this book, is included a listing of Children’s Literature of Suggested Book Titles based upon interest; age appropriateness; reading range of reading competence of the Reader; and, inclusion are variety of genres for reading widely in fiction and nonfiction because all learning flows from reading!
Cheryl Hill
After having retired with forty years of experience as an educator, Cheryl E. Hill is a retired teacher-librarian. Reading literacy has always been first and foremost in whatever educational role the author served; whether as classroom teacher, reading specialist, English as a Second Language Specialist, or school librarian. The time has come for bringing the author's eclectic, explicit phonics method of successfully teaching reading to numerous children to the forefront to be shared with others so the precious gift of reading can continue to be gifted to children wherever they may be found! Cheryl Hill's fellow teachers through their informal observations over time and through authentic experiences of having inherited or shared Mrs. Hill's students noted her success with teaching children of all kind; no matter their academic abilities, no matter their ethnic backgrounds, rich or poor, native English speakers or non-native English speakers, one certainty, after having been taught by Mrs. Hill, all the children learned to read!
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Give Your Child the Gift of Reading! - Cheryl Hill
Give Your Child the Gift of Reading!
The Gift of Reading is Forever!
Cheryl E. Hill
Copyright © 2011, 2012 by Cheryl E. Hill
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Dedication
Dedicated to parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers of children anywhere everywhere so that they can become empowered to give the gift of reading forevermore!
TABLE of CONTENTS
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part One:
Reading is a skill that must be practiced to be perfected by, first, learning the letters sounds of the English language alphabet
English Short Vowels
English Long Vowels
English Vowel Aa’s
Third Sound known as, broad sound:
/ah/ as in father;
Neither short nor long
English Consonant letters
English Consonant Letter Teams: known also Consonant Digraphs:
Part Two:
Practice for Blending-Reading English letter sounds into word
Blending to Reading Short Vowel a
Words
Blending to Reading Short Vowel a
Words; Short Vowel e
Words
Blending to Reading short vowel I
words
Blending to Reading Short vowel o
Words
Blending to Reading short vowel u
words
Blending to Reading Short Vowel Words
Blending to Reading Short Vowels Words
More Blending to Reading Short vowel o
Words
Part Three:
Blending English letter sounds to reading words
Blending to Reading Short and long Vowel Words
Blending to Reading Short and long Vowel Words
Blending to Reading Short and long Vowel Words
Learning the 5 Jobs of Silent
e" at the end of a word
Reading Final Silent e
words in short rebus sentences
Part Four:
Word and Story Practice Readings
Practice Reading Selection
Practice Reading Selection
Practice Reading Two-Letters ai/ay:
known as a vowel team says long ā sound
Practice Reading Selection
Practice Reading Vowel letter teams representing a single long vowel sound
Practice Reading Vowel letter
Practice Reading Selection
Practice Reading Selection
Practice Reading Selection
Part Five:
Broad a
Practice Readings (Broad is the third sound of a which is neither short or long
Broad a
words as in vowel team: ar
Broad a
Practice Reading Selection as