A Reading Experience
When my youngest daughter was about four, she really loved this certain book. Everyday I would read to her and sometimes twice a day. There were also times I would hide the book because I got tired of reading it to her. I would end up giving in and reading it to her again. So one day, I asked her to read to me. To my surprise she read or memorised the book from the beginning to the end. I was very pleased and so I wanted to show her off to one of my aunts. So she read a loud to her and my aunt was very surprised she couldn't believe it. I guess my daughter had memorised the book from being read to so many times. She did not recognised the words when I pointed it out but she remembered the pictures that went with the words from the pages. It was indeed an interesting observation at the time.
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I am always fascinated with children learning language or something new every day. Early readers are able to use several strategies to predict a word, often using pictures to confirm predictions. They can discuss the background of the story to better understand the actions in the story and the message the story carries. It is this time in the reader's development that the cueing systems are called upon significantly, so they must pay close attention to the visual cues and language patterns, and read for meaning.
ReplyDeleteThe link below will take you to reading rocket website and you can read some articles on early literacy.
http://www.readingrockets.org/atoz/1125/all
That is really cool! I think your constant guidance really helped with her language development. Sometimes what we think are already tedious and repetitious are actually very beneficial to our children. :)
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