. What methods (s) have you used to teach reading?

Question

Please include the grade level you teach.

Answer 1

For small children, I give them books with more pictures than words and ask them to tell me a story and turn the pages. This gets them comfortable with the mechanics of reading. Then, I teach them to put letters together to make simple words, and read the same book to them over and over. Then I have them read the book to me, several days in a row.

This works well.

Answer 2

I teach Kindergarten/grade one. I've been using Systematic Phonics as another tool for teaching. It's by Patricia Cunningham. It's a game of sorts that leads children through word building activities and is a cooperative way of working so that the higher level children can help others. I also have used Words Their Way which has a variety of activities such as word and letter sorts, hidden word games and patterning. Many teachers in our district use this resource. Plus they can take their sorts home and do them with parents. Both these resources are series that go up to Grade 5 and possibly further... I use pocket charts to do choral reading of small photocopiable books that can be sent home as well which I feel are good at reinforcing and teaching sight words. One set of readers which I have really enjoyed working with are the Oxford Reading Tree books. They're levelled really well and the kids really enjoy reading them as they're almost always pretty funny.

Answer 3

I currently teach high school ELD, and I use the High Point program to teach both English and reading.

Last year I taught a class called Literacy Workshop, which developed skills through novels and short nonfiction text selections from Jamestown Publishers.

I've not taught the lower classes of reading at my school - Language! or Linda Mood Bell, but I hear that Language is seriously phonics based and a bit repetive and basic for some students. Linda Mood Bell is for students who are seriously illiterate and have a problem especially with visualizing. I've heard it is pretty effective, but must be done in small groups... which is public school is not very cost effective.

Too bad most of the effective strategies don't seem to be cost effective.

Answer 4

Ehm..
There are numerous documented benefits and advantages of teaching children to read early on, and teaching them to reading using phonics and phonemic awareness instructions. It is clear that early language and reading ability development passes great benefits to the child as they progress through school at all grades, and that early language and reading problems can lead to learning problems later on in school.

For a simple, step-by-step program that can help your child learn to read visit this web site: http://readingprogram.toptips.org