Is there anything like education unboxed for teaching reading?

[highspirits]

Or would the equivalent just be reading to them? I love the discovery based, learning through play aspect, as well as knowing I'm building a solid base of number sense. It doesn't have to be video based and/or free. Though free is always a bonus :) thoughts?

 

 

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[cabritadorada]

I'm pretty fanatical about these books by Toni S. Gould for play-based discovery of how language, letters and words work:  

 

Get Ready to Read: https://www.amazon.com/Get-Ready-Read-Practical-Teaching/dp/0802773613/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470159000&sr=1-3&keywords=Toni+Gould

 

30+ Games to Get Ready to Read: https://www.amazon.com/30-Games-Get-Ready-Read/dp/0802774326/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

 

There may be websites out there with similar ideas--I haven't really looked because I've been relying on these books!

[HomeAgain]

I think the closest you'd come is Montessori based reading lessons.  Shiller math now has a kit out for them, and there's also Brilliant Minds' reading kit- though Shiller goes further, I believe, than Brilliant Minds.

 

 

 

[ElizabethB]

You could use my one page charts and a few copies of the cards, cut them out, and have the student try to build some words that you say.

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf

 

Once they know some spelling rules, a fun challenge is to spell in reverse as a puzzle, I have an example video a bit along those lines for spelling the sounds of K. You would show a list of words with different sound spellings of K and have the student try to figure out any rules or patterns.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLMIA-zrnVQ

 

I would make sure you teach all the phonics with a complete phonics program and supplement with some of these ideas, reading is too important a skill to leave to chance. I have been tutoring phonics for 22 years and still use a variety of well designed programs with my students to make sure I cover all the skills they need to be able to sound out everything.

 

My phonics concentration game builds blending skill in a fun way. It is not discovery based but is a fun way to get in some of the repetition needed and builds basic sounding out skills.

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html

Edited August 6, 2016 by ElizabethB