All About Teaching and Learning Phonics

[tamarind]

I just found this very good article about why kids in upper primary should still read picture books :


http://www.squidoo.com/teachingwithpicturebooks

6. Picture Books Build Reading Comprehension Painlessly!
Since fiction picture books so successfully employ story elements (plot, character, setting, conflict), a steady diet of picture books will increase a child's reading comprehension, no matter what their present stage.

Nonfiction picture books, such as They Called Her Molly Pitcher, tie complex ideas and vocabulary to illustrations. Defining unknown words through context clues becomes much easier when a picture provides the reader with clues. And consider this: are the reading passages on standardized tests in chapter form, or are they shorter passages? (From an insider: many selections on standardized tests are actually picture books with the illustrations removed).

[Celyw]

tks alot tamarind

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Hi,


Anyone can share which books you use to teach phonic at home? Anyone used Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers before? Are they good and where can I get them? Thanks.

[laughingcat]

nz:

Hi,


Anyone can share which books you use to teach phonic at home? Anyone used Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers before? Are they good and where can I get them? Thanks.

You can buy \"Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers\" from popular and other bookstore as well such as Borders, Kino, MPH etc

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laughingcat:

nz:

Hi,


Anyone can share which books you use to teach phonic at home? Anyone used Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers before? Are they good and where can I get them? Thanks.

You can buy \"Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers\" from popular and other bookstore as well such as Borders, Kino, MPH etc

Ok. Thanks.

[buds]

Heyya, nz! I like these. Comes in a pack with readers, activity books and enrichment books.... some packs with VCD to help parents & children with the letter sounds pronounciations and there are packs that come without the VCD as well... 1 pack about $24.90... or can buy one at a time also... ala carte off the shelves.

This range easily available @ Popular.

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=TsCyK39

For more fun activity books, these are great too! Value for money as well.

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=391489#391489

[tamarind]

nz:

Hi,


Anyone can share which books you use to teach phonic at home? Anyone used Ladybird Superhero Phonic Readers before? Are they good and where can I get them? Thanks.

I bought this set of books from Popular about 2 years ago :

PHONICS READING PROGRAM (MAGIC SCHOOL BUS)
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Both my kids were very keen to read them. But then they were already very good in phonics at that time, and they completed reading all the books very quickly.

The resources given by buds and laughingcat look good !

[buds]

Tam! I had the same set above too!

And like you... because my girls were already fluent
readers by then, i sold it off to another friend of mine
who was just starting out her son with phonics.

[tamarind]

buds,

I also sold off my set

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Tamarind & buds,

Thanks for info. Will check it out.