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Mommy,Mommy let's read a book!!! Please Mommy read me Cinderella! Please Mommy, Please.
Daddy, Daddy guess what, I know how to spell dog, D-O-G! See Daddy I know how to spell!
Mommy I want to read to you tonight! How about I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerors Stone?
It is a good feeling to hear your child say that they enjoy reading.
This is a webquest on how to introduce your child to the wonders of words.
The Quest
How does reading to a child from birth affect the childs cognitive ablilities later on in life?
Background: Something for Everyone
Using the link "Reading with Infants and Toddlers" answer the following four questions.
1.
Give examples of five other tools that an infant/ toddler may learn for being read to daily.
2.
Why should a care taker run thier finger under each word as they read the word?
3.
what are three ways of helping build a childs vocabulary? how many words per day does a child learn on adverage?
4.
What is the best environment to read to an infant/ toddler?
Reading with Infants and Toddlers Looking Deeper from Different Perspectives
Infant
Using the link "Precursors to Speech" answer the following four questions.
1.
Why are babies more likely to speak the language of their environment "like a native" then an older child?
2.
What is one early example of infant communication?
3.
What are the four things that infants can use to convey what they want to say?
4.
How does an infants vocalizational skills chage during its first year??
-This site is an overview of how babies communicate thier needs to the world around them. Using the link "Set the Stage for literacy- literally " answer the following four questions.
1.
What is the foundation that an infant needs in order to be successful later in school and in life?
2.
What type of relationships help an infant develop language skills?
3.
What is the best way to try and teach an infant literacy?
4.
What are three ways that can expand a childs vocabulary and narrative skills?
Set the Stage for Literacy — Literally
Using the link "Five Tips for talking to Your Baby" answer the following four questions.
1.
What are two ways of including movement while speaking to your infant?
2.
What types of stories add tone and sound to ones voice while one reads?
3.
What should you do if a child speaks rudely to you with out meaning to because they don't know how to properly form the statement or question?
4.
What is the best way to introduce new words to your infant?
Five Tips for Talking to Your Baby
Using the link "Help Your Baby Learn Language" answer the following four questions.
1.
What type of language should you use around an infant?
2.
Give five examples of how you should talk to infants.
3.
How should you respond to an infants pointing and babbling?
4.
Why should television be limited?
Help Your Baby Learn Language
Toddler
Using the link "Classroom Conversations" answer the following four questions.
1.
What are some things a teacher might say to a child to comfort the child and ease him/her into the routine of the school day?
2.
Learning to share is a very important life skill to learn at a young age. What types of responses could a teacher expect from a toddler who does not want to share a special toy?
3.
What are some ways to encourage social skills among toddlers?Listening skills?
4.
Outdoor play allows toddler to do more then just excercise and get fresh air, give three other example of what toddlers learn and do during this time?
- Classroom Conversations
Using the link "Set the Stage for Literacy — Literally" answer the following four questions.
1.
What is the foundation that a toddler needs in order to be successful later in school and in life?
2.
What type of relationships help a toddler develop language skills?
3.
What is the best way to try and teach a toddler literacy?
4.
What are three ways that can expand a toddlers vocabulary and narrative skills?
- Set the Stage for Literacy — Literally
Using the link "Read to Succeed" answer the following four questions.
1.
What types of development can be gained while reading to a toddler?
2.
How can you help toddlers focus on the book your reading to them?
3.
How can you regain the attention of unfocused toddler?
4.
When do you believe would be a good time of day to read to toddlers?
- Read to Succeed
Using the link "Good Beginnings in Reading for Infants and Toddlers in High/Scope Programs" answer the following four questions.
1.
What type of development does the High/Scope infant-toddler programs promote and encourage?
2.
How do toddlers in High/Scope programs learn to communicate? Speak? Handle books?
3.
How is book learning promoted in this program?
4.
Give three scientific examples of how this program and other like it affects toddlers later on in life.
- Good Beginnings in Reading for Infants and Toddlers in High/Scope Programs
Child
Using the link "The Wonderful World of Sounds " answer the following four questions.
1.
What is phenomic awareness? Take three pairs of words that sound alike and alter them into new words that are phonemes.
2.
Using the five ways to have fun exploring phonemes create two games that one can play with a child. Explain how each game promotes this awareness.
3.
What does Rhyming, Alliteration, and Sounds have in common?
4.
How does learning the sounds that letters stand for help a child learn how to read?
- The Wonderful World of Sounds
Using the link "Getting Ready to Read: Building Phonics Skills" answer the following four questions.
1.
How is the sequence of learning different from three year olds and five year olds?
2.
How does learning phonemes help a child learn phonics?
3.
What are three differences between graphemes and phonemes?
4.
How does the use of teaching phonics help care takers teach the english language?
- Getting Ready to Read: Building Phonics Skills
Using the link "Reading for Fun is Reading for the Future" answer the following four questions.
1.
If a child does not learn how to read at a young age what are some obstacles that they may have to overcome to be accepted by others?
2.
How does reading aloud help a child to become a better reader?
3.
What are some advantages of having a child enjoy reading?
4.
Why should children be surrounded by books at home? In school?
- Reading for Fun is Reading for the Future
Using the link "Reading With School-age Children" answer the following four questions.
1.
Why should you have a copy of the same book(s) that your child is reading?How does it help your child? How does it help you?
2.
How can you tell if a book is below/at/ or above your childs reading level?
3.
Why is fluency important to listen for while your child reads?
4.
Why should you not sound like a teacher while teaching your child to read?
- Reading With School-age Children
Parent(s) / Adult(s)
Using the link "National Center for Educational Statistics" answer the following four questions.
1.
Looking at the statistics, explain why or why not your state is above or below the national achievement levels?
2.
What is the literacy percentage in your stae? what is the reason for that percentage?
3.
Are the other percentages (math and science) similar to the reading percentage in your state?
4.
Are the achievement levels in reading your state of fourth and eight graders adverage or not?why?
Using the link "Born to Read" answer the following four questions.
1.
Why should parents take part in the Born to Read program?
2.
What type of skills are taught to new mothers and their infants in this program?
3.
Why does a childs mind absorb more from the age of two months to four years?
4.
How has the born to read program helped our national and state literacy adverages?
Using the link "Born to Read:
How to Raise a Reader" answer the following four questions.
1.
What do you know about early literacy?How does it help children?
2.
Why should students begin school after knowing phonological awareness?
3.
Why should you raise a reader?
4.
How should you raise a reader?
Using the link "The Good Teacher: Teaching Reading From Birth On" answer the following four questions.
1.
How did home schooling her children help her children later on in life?
2.
Why did teaching her children at a young age help the children accomplish thier goals?
3.
Why did Jessie create a special time for teaching her children how to read?
4.
What was the major skills that Jessie taught her children?
1. Create a survey for elementery-school aged children and interview 20 elementery school students.
2.Create a survey for high-school aged children and interview 20 high school students.
3. Create a survey for parents and pass them out in shopping centers or send home with your friends.
In conclusion, my webquest on Reading Since Birth is to encourage care takers to read to young children and allow older children to read to them. This quest is also to show users that reading from birth is a tool that children will use for the rest of their lives.