I really enjoyed working with my K-buddy last week. He was a little shy in the beginning, but he opened up and spoke a lot when he gave me a picture of himself with his favorite animal. I was amazed by his ability to spell out words. He sounded the words out and sometimes drew a picture if he felt it was too difficult to write.
I enjoyed this week's reading. Reading Word Identification Strategies by Barbara J. Fox, really helped me to better understand my K-buddy. Reading the chapters on phonics and phonemic awareness helped me better understand how phonics can help their vocabulary skills and their fluency skill as well. It was really interesting to see how chilren recognize and decode unfamiliar words. I remember by K-buddy having difficulty writing the word "chocolate" for his favorite food. I helped him strech the word out and I asked him to do his best in sounding the word out. I remember he wrote "chokolat" and thought it was very interesting. Reading Word Identification Strategies helped me a lot to better understand where my K-buddy stands in the stages of word learning. It's really fasinating to learn how phenomenon works for our youngsters. I am looking forward in learning more about my K-buddy's reading and writing skills and to help him improve in his literacy learning.
Hi Yujin! I enjoyed reading your blog. I also found the work with my K-buddy to be very interesting. She wanted to write all the items on the "favorites" list even if she needed help spelling the words. When her fingers got tired she drew pictures for the words instead.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to learning more about how to help emergent readers using what we have learned about phonics and phonemic awareness. I am looking forward to doing the activities we planned with our buddies this week! I hope we able to help them have a better understanding of the objectives we are aiming at.
Before starting this program, I was always confused with the term, "phonics." I remember watching commercials and always wondered, what do they mean? I also didn't see how rhyming helped emergent readers until now. I was the students that sounded out every single letter,and learned the exceptions later. Growing up my younger sister could not stand me reading to her. She said I took forever. It is nice to know different strategies and techniques to help kids learn new words. (If I knew this maybe my sister would have enjoyed me reading to her more.) There is more going on to literacy than I ever thought!
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