Rucielyn L.

Bolado
BEEd. IV-A (Gen. Ed.) Dr. Caezar Dela Rosa Pamin


READING STYLE OF KINDERGARTEN
According to the Kindergarten Curriculum guide, a curriculum should be age-
appropriate, individually appropriate and socio-culturally appropriate. The Kindergarten
framework recommends the use of strategies that address the needs and interest of the learners
and uses the mother tongue as the medium of instruction. As to their level on reading or the pre-
reading stage, the students on Kindergarten should be able to sing the alphabet song perfectly,
names more than five letters, associate more than five letters with their sound. In order to
develop the reading skills of the students, teacher should focus on the three pillars of reading:
phonemic awareness, phonics and reading comprehension.
Here are the reading styles in Kinder
Decoding
Before your child can read, he must be able to decode (sound out) words. Kindergarten teachers
use phonics instruction to introduce letters, one by one, along with their corresponding sounds.
The goal is for children to have phonemic awareness, the knowledge that each letter represents
an individual sound. Once children understand this principle, teachers will practice decoding
with CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words with them. Your child will begin reading simple
books that contain many of these words.
Context Clues
Context clues help your child comprehend what he's reading and improve his vocabulary at the
same time. Your child's kindergarten teacher will demonstrate how to use this strategy. As she
reads, the teacher will pause at a word and pretend not to be able to decode it. For example, the
teacher encounters the word "bird," a complex word for kindergartners because of the "ir" sound
in the middle. After pronouncing the first sound in the word, "b," the teacher points to the picture
of birds on the page and then asks the children to say the word. Since most students will know
the initial sound, "b," determining the word becomes easier especially if the book is about birds.
Shared Reading
Kindergarten teachers rely on shared reading to help their students improve reading fluency and
learn concepts of print like left-to-right progression of words and sentence structure. Echo
reading is a shared reading strategy. The teacher reads a sentence from a book. The students will
repeat the sentence while the teacher points to the words. When your child participates in this
activity, he will also improve his sight word vocabulary. These are frequently used words that
usually cannot be sounded out like "what," "the" and "come."
Guided Reading
Guided reading is a strategy teachers use to help their students in small groups. This allows
teachers to differentiate instruction to meet individual needs. If your child is an advanced,
average or struggling reader, the teacher will use specific techniques in guided reading groups to
help him. She will reinforce decoding and comprehension skills using books that are leveled in
complexity. This method allows every child to experience success in reading.