Preschool question????

Question

In what way could I teach phonics to preschoolers so that it's easy to remember and fun to do? I've tried shaving cream but it gets too messy...please help!

Answer 1

In my preschool we use the yellow level of hooked on phonics, with the song that teaches letters and their sounds.  To review and reteach we play alphabet bingo using the letter sounds as the clues.  The program is clear and step-by-step, which helps the children progress on their own levels.  The song is fun and is easily memorizable.  My program has a very good success level and most of my preschoolers are reading simple sentences before they begin kindergarten.

Answer 2

flash cards with pictures on them, like pictionary, it works like magic.

Answer 3

That's a tough one since it really depends how ready your child is to learn letters.  I have a seven-year-old who wasn't ready until she was six, and I have a five-year-old who isn't yet ready.  

I have created flash cards and we play a memory game where my daughter has to find two matching letters AND be able to tell me what sound the letter makes in order to keep the cards.  

The best thing is to not push young children.  You will know when your child is ready as it will be what he/she wants to do.

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Answer 4

alphabethics

numbers

Answer 5

um you could try making a song out of some of the stuff you want to teach them.

or you could make a game

i guess anything, that will allow for them to have fun while learning

Answer 6

preschoolers dont you think they are a little young try rymes

Answer 7

count pennies or count something

Answer 8

Make an alphabet lotto game. This way the children think they are just playing a game. In my experience they learn to recognise the letters very quickly. The children concentrate on looking at the letters and listening to the letter sounds as they are all so keen to complete their board first to be the winner!

Answer 9

try playing a game with them that has to do with it

Answer 10

color time and alphabet

Answer 11

If Piaget is right, and I think he is, preschoolers can concentrate on only one variable at a time.

Apply this to phonics, and you get either alliterating words (bad, bag, bat) or rhyming words (bat, cat, fat, hat).

I've tried both and had better luck with rhyming words.

Here in an ESL program in Korea, I have been put in charge of teaching phonics.

In each lesson, I teach a different set of rhyming words.

Here are some of my favorite activities:

1. a test on the previous lesson

2. presenting the new words, typed on cards with pictures

I fingerspell each word.

3. using a set of handmade alphabet tiles, asking each child to spell each word.

(I used to show the cards for each child.

Now I only show the picture cards for the first child, the first child shows them for the second child, and so on.)  

4. Personalizing whenever possible.  If each child has a bag, I make a sentence for each child.

5. Using picture books whenever possible.  If one of the words appears in one of my picture books, I read that picture book.  In a lesson on cats, I make sure to remember "Have You Seen My Cat?" by Eric Carle.

I keep copies of "Hop on Pop" and "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by Dr. Seuss and "Play Day" and "One Sun" by Bruce McMillan.  I have a rhyme index scotch taped on the inside of each of those books.  If the rhyme for the day appears in that book, I use it.

6.  Making a musical activity for each song.

For each letter of each word, we sing these words to the tune of "Oh, Susannah!":

O the H says /h/, the H says /h/, the H says /h/ /h/ /h/,

O the H says /h/, the H saya /h/, the H says /h/ /h/ /h/.

If you get tired of that, try:

Old MacDonald had a word, EIEIO,

And in that word he had an H, EIEIO,

With a /h/ /h/ here and a /h/ /h/ there,

Here a /h/, there a /h/, ev'rywhere a /h/ /h/,

Old MacDonald had a word, EIEIO.

7. Spelling  the words in Braille.  I made a small flannel board out of the front of a cereal box.  On the cardboard, I glued 2 columns of 3 white square pieces of flannel.  Each child simulates writing a Braille letter by placing colored flannel circles on the appropriate squares.

8. Looking up the letter for the day in ABC books.  I have a collection of different ABC books which I ordered from Amazon.  I give each child one book and ask the children to look up either the initial consonant or the final consonant.  

I then read to the class the page which each child found.

9.  I have a bingo game and

10. . . . a concentration/old maid/go fish deck for each short vowel.

11. I also have concentration decks for constructing sentences.

The object of the game is to win as many possible sentences like this:

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The children call the game SVO.

Answer 12

sing songs everyday and they will eventually memorize it....then they would learn it......also u should buy educational videos and make them watch it everyday that helps bc i have a lil sis she is in preskool and she memorizes the songs and sing everyday at home.....GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Answer 13

TAKE TIME TO W THEM