Teaching preschool, kindergarten and younger!

Teaching preschool, kindergarten and younger!

You don’t have to buy a curriculum to teach your preschool-kindergartners, use what you have at home
There’s letter of the week, and there’s starfall.com

You can read to them, teach them songs, dance with them, play, read poems to them, teach and show them that learning is fun!! enjoyable!

Do arts and crafts with them (I did this with my kids at 4 and 5 they learned so much, and that’s all we did! Read and arts and crafts!)

I buy this at ikea

Handwriting- let the kids paint on large paper, paint pictures, color, draw large letters of theirs names and let them paint them! Let them use a stick and write in the dirt, in the sand, etc
Phonics- (if they are ready, don’t force them!) do the sites above, refrig magnets letter on a metal cookie sheet, teach her the sounds of her name if it’s easy! Using index cards start with simple letters, write d on one card a on another and d on another one, m, o, same way! Just simple stuff at first, put ABC's on the wall, when the kids learn a sound look for items in the house that start with it,etc but make sure they want to learn to read and don’t force it. When they read their first word make a big deal out of it! Be encouraging!

1,2,3,4

math- count bugs, buttons, silverware, socks, rocks, let them see that each item has a number(that will help the kids later in math)  Show subtraction  by gathering 2 rocks and take 1 away and now there’s 1 left! simple things, put numbers on the wall, colors,  as they start to learn counting, gather items together found in house or outside and let them count them.

Science- nature walks(even if you don’t have a yard, take a walk on the sidewalk)!! bring a drawing pad, and crayons, look for bugs, animals leaves, rocks to draw and talk about , and when you get home look them up on Internet and check out some library books, let the kids dig holes, teach them to feed your animal, look for birds, watch the clouds, look at the stars at night,

Map of the hood!

History- talk about your family with the kids, draw them a simple map of where you live, then follow it by walking!

well those are some ideas that I did with my kids, and it didn’t cost hardly anything, so you don’t need a curriculum to teach your kids!

All the above only takes about an hour or 2 a day and that’s all they need, since its                                                                        one on one!

Some Free education sites!

Phonics for free

http://www.thephonicspage.org/index.html
is a free service offered . It has information about improving reading and spelling with phonics. Free phonics lessons and spelling lessons for adults and children in the 2nd grade and older

http://www.oldfashionededucation.com/reading.htm

http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/index.php/stairwaytoreading
This is a one-on-one remedial reading program for students of any age who have already re-ceived some reading instruction but who are struggling with reading. It was not originally designed for beginning readers, although it can be used for this purpose

http://www.starfall.com/
online games

http://www.phondot.com/
Phondot is a revolutionary system for teaching reading to beginning English readers. The system indicates pronunciation in English text without requiring that the text be respelled. The goal of the system is to make English as easy to learn to read as languages like Italian, Spanish, or Finnish.

http://www.catphonics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/contents.htm
A day-by-day programmeof systematic, synthetic phonicsfor all ages
Also by same author: Myths of reading http://www.catphonics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mythspt1.htm

http://call.canil.ca/english/index.html
In this site thousands of English words have been painstakingly grouped according to their sounds and their spellings making the patterns obvious. This is the most logical and systematic method to learn English. It doesn't rely on rules to teach reading and spelling; instead, repeated exposure to a sound/letter pattern allows your brain to recognize the pattern intuitively and internalize it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ny0aCYqeQFcC
A Complete Manual: Synthetic Method of Reading and Spelling. This is perhaps the best phonics method ever published in the history of reading in America. It is certainly the most beautiful. The stories, poems and maxims are of the highest caliber. I highly recommend downloading the Googlebook.com PDF.
Also:
Here is Pollard's First Book for Little Folk
And Pollard's 1895 First Synthetic Reader, Second Synthetic Reader, Third Synthetic Reader Here is the 1897 Primer. Free spelling is also available.

Elizabeth Burnz' 1892 The Step-by-Step Primer in Burnz' pronouncing print. Correct pronounciation shown without new letters or change of spelling.This looks like a good way to teach phonics. Also read: Pure Phonics for Home and Kindergarten,

This is more of a hands on way to teach phonics sounds! Illustrated Phonics: A Text-book for Schools (1909).

The New Beacon Primer 1921. This was a very famous and successful phonics method. Here is the 1912 edition which has the phonics charts in the front of the book, they were moved to the back in the 1921 edition. Here is the Second Beacon Reader: Folk Tales. Hazel Loring's Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade was influenced heavily by the Beacon method.

Readers for free

15. First Steps to Reading by J. S. Lauria (1862).

http://www.bartleby.com/
great site for free book classics Online

http://www.mainlesson.com/main/displayarticle.php?article=feature
Old Children's books

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
e-books


http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00acy5488m;view=toc;c=nietz
McGuffey primer

New National First Readerby Charles J. Barnes and Various

Verse and Prose for Beginners in Readingby Horace Elisha Scudder

http://www.oldfashionededucation.com/reading.htm
scroll down till it says readers!
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spelling for free

http://www.dwcummings.com/
is an inductive spelling program for elementary and middle school students, consisting of eight books of 48 short lessons each

Here is the 1896 edition of Rebecca Pollard Pollard's Synthetic Speller. Here is the 1887 edition of Pollard's Advanced Speller

The National Pronouncing Speller by Richard G. Parker and J. Madison Watson. A masterpiece! I have not seen their National First Reader: Primer of Word-Building

And Ear and Eye Spelling Book: A Book on Word Study for the Primary Grades by Albert R. Sabin (1904). This is for 1st-4th grade. Here is The Progressive Speller (1994) by F. P Sever. Very good speller!

http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/guidespell.asp
help learning how to spell! Very good idea!

Other ways to teach phonics!
(Some free and some not free!)

whole-word dyslexia- Phonics Pathways by Dolores Hiskes
http://www.dorbooks.com/readingpathways.html

dyslexia- http://www.toe-by-toe.co.uk/
A Highly Structured Multi-Sensory Reading Manual for Teachers & Parents

Edu-Steps by Pat Doran
. The program was developed by professor Pat Doran of Gilbert, Arizona. Her program is called Phonics Steps to Reading Success. It is a fast-paced word attack system for developing and improving reading skills. Pat has over 30 years experience working with students with reading problems. Dramatic results have also been reported by other teachers using the program. It is appropriate for ages 10 to 100. Here is a short essay by Pat: Steps to Reading Success. The Teacher's Manual is included right on the transparancies!

http://donpotter.net/PDF/How%20to%20Cure%20Dyslexia.pdf
Samuel Blumenfield article!

Dyslexia competency test-
http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm
http://www.dyslexia.com/dyslexiatest.htm
http://www.dys-add.com/testing.html


Misc. phonics ideas and helps for free!

http://donpotter.net/PDF/Mary%20Johnson%27s%202%20Sentence%20Test.pdf
Mary Johnson’s Two Sentence Reading Test is a cleverly devised assessment for determining if
students can read by the analogy from memorized sight-words (phony-phonics).

http://www.nrrf.org/readtest.html - Reading Competency Test
How well is your child reading? Print out The National Right to Read Foundation's Reading Competency Test and find out today- here it is in pdf form http://donpotter.net/PDF/Reading%20Competency%20Test%20-%20Groff.pdf

http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/phonics.html - Practice Quiz on Phonics
a list of phonics rules to print- http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/phonics.rules.html

http://www.illinoisloop.org/anon_thankyouwl.html
a funny article on whole language learning , not the best way to teach children to read!

http://www.resourceroom.net/homeschool/index.asp
Good resource for spelling, phonics and a few other subjects!

http://www.geocities.com/yamataro670/readinglab.htm
information articles with self-grading comprehension tests. Great for reading practice!


http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
phonics flashcards to print plus many more flashcards for other things!

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/historyofreading.html
History of reading, very interesting! Makes you consider how you teach your children to read!

Handwriting Learning for Free!!

http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/Publications/ReviewAccess.html
Handwriting, A Complete Guide To Instruction

http://www.iampeth.com/lessons.php#ornamental
Here you will find a wealth of material for learning calligraphy and penmanship. Cursive handwriting, Ornamental Penmanship, Copperplate, Spencerian script - we have lessons on these and much more.

http://donpotter.net/PDF/Cursive%20First.pdf
How Should We Teach Our Children to Write?
Cursive First, Print Later!
By Samuel L, Blumenfeld

Manual of Free-hand Penmanship

Where I found lots of this stuff!!
http://donpotter.net/ed.htm
http://oldfashionededucation.com/

debbie