Pack Four
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Counting Sounds and Puppet Talk
Research indicates that phonemic awareness is the most important skill needed for literacy.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to process individual speech sounds. Your child needs to hear the
individual sounds that blend together to make words.
Phonemic segmenting is the ability to break words down into the individual sounds, for example
c-a-t. Your child needs to learn that we use speech sounds when reading and writing.
Remember that some children may find this difficult to start but continued exposure will increase their success. You can incorporate talking in sounds when giving instructions, reading stories, driving in the car.
Modeling segmenting and blending words for your child will increase their confidence and success.
Magnetic Memory Grid
The ability to recall or remember the visual details of what you have seen is called visual memory.
Visual memory is a vital skill for school and everyday life. It assists with recognition of letters and numbers, spelling, recalling faces and remembering the location of everyday items.
Don’t forget to always make the task achievable and successful for your child. Start with simple patterns and build up to more complex ones.
Most importantly, have fun playing and learning together!
Verbalising & Visualising
Visualising and verbalising is a strategy created by Nanci Bell, an expert in the treatment of language and literacy disorders. It teaches children comprehension and language processing to build pictures in their minds as they listen, and later, as they read. Creating mental images when reading can greatly assist comprehension. Proficient readers create visual images while they read.
Visualisation also helps with remembering things. Once children have seen an image, it makes it a lot easier for them to recall it later. Further, when they draw it, it becomes ingrained in their minds.
There are three steps to visualising:
- Imagining. Close your eyes and think about what I am saying. Think about colours, shapes, sizes, characters, where it is happening, and what the characters are doing.
- Visualising. Draw what you saw in your head when you imagined the words.
- Verbalising. Explain (or answer questions about) what you imagined and visualised from the words I said.
You will find a Verbalising & Visualising PDF available to download at the bottom of each pack.
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Books
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