![]() It keeps me from showing any frustration. So I asked around, and this book was recommended.Īnd it’s working! We are on lesson 10, and she is sounding out the words before I can! I love that this is completely scripted. ![]() So teaching her on my own wasn’t going to work. Here’s the thing, if she senses my frustration or feels pressure, she will shut down. She has watched educational shows and played with educational toys and SHE SHOULD KNOW BASIC PHONICS but she just doesn’t. She has been in an acclaimed preschool for 2 years. We have alphabet stickers on the wall with animal pictures. I know she will pick this up when she is ready. I know some countries in Scandinavia don’t even start formal schooling until age 7, with some of the best outcomes in he world. The teacher said she just isn’t interested yet. If you point to a letter and say “What sound does this make?” She replies “I don’t know, “ah” or something” (the letter was M). Reading Head Start is written by Sarah Shepard, an English teacher with 14 years of professional experience, who developed the programme when her son was falling behind with reading at school. It was great.”įor now, the current students get to enjoy their well-earned and well-deserved pizzas.My daughter is almost 7, and is doing great in school in every subject except reading. “They sent people in every week to read to the children. Grace Brown, a Head Start associate teacher. “In the past we had people from the hospital, as well as the 60th Security Forces Squadron and others, sort of adopt our classes,” said Ms. While the parents do volunteer in the classroom to read to the children, Head Start has had some of the groups on base come in to read also. The program also gets support from people outside Head Start. It gives them a little something extra for their accomplishment.” “The children who participate in the program and bring back their completed journal get a certificate for a free pizza. “Being on a military installation, we understand the parents sometimes have tough schedules this program gives the parents an extra incentive for reading to the kids,” said Mrs. “It not only promotes reading for the children, but interaction between them and their parents as well,” said Mrs. It also helps ensure the parents are participating in the program. “These kids will be expected to read by the time they move on to first grade.”Īt the beginning of the program, the children are sent home with a journal so they can keep track of the books they read. Deotha Wolfe, the head teacher of the morning class at the Travis Head Start. Parents start playing the videos and can go through them at their child’s pace. ![]() This helps boost their confidence as they move on to the next level. “Kindergarten isn’t just playtime anymore,” said Mrs. After they complete each stage, the child gets a certificate of achievement. With the advances in curriculum in kindergarten programs, the Head Start program wants to better prepare the children for the kind of schoolwork they will be doing once they get there. “It helps us identify development problems with any of the children that should be addressed before they move on to kindergarten as well.” Carol Johnson, the program’s family advocate. “The main focus of the program is to prepare the children for kindergarten and get them excited about reading,” said Mrs. The program also involves volunteers coming into the class and reading to the children. The children take a bag of four to five books home for a week, then bring them back and exchange them for different ones. 1, is a take-home book bag program that helps promote reading among pre-school age children. Reading Head Start is a reading program designed explicitly for children aged 12 months to 9 years to give them a head start on reading or to help them catch up to and even surpass their peers. Today marks the end of the Raising a Reader program for the children enrolled at the Travis Head Start pre-school. ![]()
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