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Learning to read and write are two great achievements in children’s lives, knowledge that they generally acquire in the classroom while they are in first grade.
But this year, the pandemic by COVID-19 forced the suspension of classes in all schools in the country, abruptly changing the usual teaching process that teachers carry out in the classroom, moving it to the interior of the home, where parents have assumed the challenge of guiding their children to give continuity to their learnings.
Delia Torchio, Director of Basic Education Pedagogy at Universidad de Las Américas Viña del Mar Headquarters, comments that the pandemic and confinement have hindered the initial reading and writing process of students, where teachers with great effort and commitment have applied various resources and educational experiences to teach reading and writing to his students at a distance.
Also, many parents have expressed a degree of frustration at the lack of tools to support children in this process that requires time, patience and perseverance.
“In the teaching of literacy we must be very aware that learning in children develops gradually, also depending on the motivational elements that we use in the different stages of reading and writing,” he said.
“There are different methods and models to teach reading and writing, but families can put into practice some guidelines to support children in the reading and writing process during these months of confinement, thus facilitating learning at home,” explains the academic.
To help parents, the expert provides the following tips to guide the achievement of these knowledge at home:
1. Stimulate the formation of a visual vocabulary, for example, letter the child’s bedroom with pictures associated with a word and the concept image.
2. Label with their names all the implements and furniture that are present in the home: table, chair, bed, armchair.
3. Stimulate the sequential learning of the letters of the alphabet.
4. Do exercises to complete words with vowels, both orally and in writing.
5. Practice the beginning and ending sounds of words.
6. Promote knowledge of elements such as words, rhymes, syllables, each phoneme with its grapheme, among others.
7. Create cards with graphemes and syllables to form simple words and phrases with them: mom, dad, bear, “The sweet bear ate honey.”
8. Implement a space for sustained silent reading, with different texts from the children’s culture, such as songs, prayers, jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, among others.
9. Generate instances so that children have varied experiences of listening to stories told, read or recorded and at the same time visually review the words heard.
10. Encourage the questioning and comprehension of texts in their homes, reading bulletins, catalogs, recipes, advertisements, among others.
11. Take “reading walks”, using the spaces in the house to play to find a treasure, placing in different places, with some difficulty, cards with short phrases that they can read to locate the treasure.
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