Description of Presentation

How can you tell if your child is having difficulty reading? What are some things you can do at home to teach your child how to read? What do you do if you suspect a disability? Tammie Sebastian, Information Specialist/Trainer, at the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities, will teach participants the basic foundational steps needed to learn to read. Rhyme, rhythm, pictures, phonemic awareness will be discussed and applied with a hands-on approach. Story telling techniques will be demonstrated. How to recognize if a child is having difficulty reading and what some of the warning signs of a possible disability will also be discussed. Content geared toward preschool families.

CFK Resources

• Reading Handout with books and other reading information
  
• Learning Disabilities Pinterest Board
  

Websites

• Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities
• Raising Readers
• Understood

Videos

• Who Stole The Cookie from The Cookie Jar (YouTube)
  
• There Was a Crooked Man (YouTube)

Articles

• 4 Steps to Choosing Books at Your Child’s Reading Level (Understood)
• Closing The 'Word Gap' Between Rich And Poor (NPR)
• Early Signs of a Reading Difficulty (Reading Rockets)
• Key to Vocabulary Gap Is Quality of Conversation, Not Dearth of Words (Education Week)
• Reading Issues Online Collection (Understood)
• Teaching Strategies: Read-Aloud (Annenberg Learner)
• The Famous ‘Word Gap’ Doesn’t Hurt Only The Young. It Affects Many Educators, Too (Washington Post)
• Top 10 Things to Know About Reading (Understood)
• Toys that Teach: Making Age-Appropriate Choices (Earlychildhood News)
• Who Hops? Free Printable and Video Read Aloud (Child Development Institute of the Redwoods)