Echo reading is a strategy used in elementary classrooms that helps students develop fluency in their reading. In echo reading, students are paired together and then take turns reading the same passage, usually one or two sentences at a time. Although your preschooler probably is not able to actually read the words, this same strategy, with a bit of altering, can be utilized to teach the same fluency skills.
Select a book with which your child is already familiar. Read the title while pointing to each word as you say it. Then, tell your child to read the title to you in the same manner. Read through the book in the same manner choosing short passages for your child to echo.
As you and your child are progressing through the book, focus your child on your voice and its inflections. You want your child not only repeat the words, but also to mimic the way in which they are said. Be dramatic in your reading. If your child is having a difficult time pointing to each word as she says it, abandon this skill for the first few times, and then try to reintroduce it at a later time.
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Written by BRWI Staff on March 17, 2010
I once saw a link for an online video which supposedly showed an eighteen-month-old toddler reading books on camera. I didn’t watch the video because, honestly, my first thought was that it must a scam. When I thought about it a little bit more, my thoughts focused on the times when my own child was so proud of the fact that he could “read” his favorite Eric Carle story when h
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Written by Laura on March 8, 2010
By now, most people have heard at least one of the public service announcements describing how it is important to talk to your child in regular, complete sentences as opposed to the “baby talk” many people tend to begin using in the presence of a little one. Children learn by example, so when they hear adults talking with correct grammar and sentence structure, they begin to mimic the
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Written by BRWI Staff on February 1, 2010
As children get ready to read, it is an important skill to be able to listen to words carefully. Children who are able to hear and identify the different sounds in words are better able to decode words as they are reading them. Many children are able to simply hear a list of words and then extend the list according to the pattern. For example, if you were to say to the child, “fun”
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Written by BRWI Staff on January 25, 2010
