Teaching Kids Echo Reading

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Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of expertvillage.com and this session we'll be talking about rhyming and reading games. Echo reading. How important is it? Very important. First we have to define what is an echo? We say hello, helloooooooooo. So many of us have heard echos. Echos are so important. Your child will learn to echo read with you, it's another form of interactive reading. Echo reading, first you point out something as you're reading, for example, in this particular read it says a farmer went trotting upon his grey mare, bumpety bumpety bump. Every time I say, in this repetitive rhyme, bympety bumpety bump, will you say that after me? And your child then listens with a purpose. He watches or she watches you with a purpose as you're pointing to each word. With songs they learn it later but this is the first steps in the echo reading so you say, a farmer went trotting on his grey mare, bumpety bumpety bump, your turn. Bumpety bumpety bump. And then with his daughter behind so rosey and fair, bumpety bumpety bump, it's your turn, bumpety bumpety bump. Give them a little wait time, they catch on, start out with just a simple repetitive phrase. This is a nice rhyme and what is it that we just learned? Alliteration, bumpety bumpety bump, because alliteration is a great form of rhyme so it's sight recognition, listening and we learned in the very beginning of this how important listening skills are and then they become a part of something as simple as an echo read.

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