about reading

Cad é mar a chuidíonn muid le léitheoireacht a éascú dár bpáistí? Tá roinnt cluichí agus stráitéisí réamhléitheoireachta a dhéanann muid, mar thuismitheoirí, a chuireann leis na scileanna atá de dhíth.

Mar shampla:

- Meáitseáil: ní gá bosca ar leith a cheannach ón siopa luathoideachais. Nuair a bhí mo chuid páistí beag, bhíodh cluiche acu le m’athair féin ag meáitseáil gnáthchártaí as páca, iad ar fad nó díreach leath an pháca. Leagadh sé gach cárta síos, aghaidheanna síos, agus bhíodh comórtas idir é féin agus an páiste dhá chárta a thiompú ina sealanna agus péirí a aimsiú. Gach péire a d’aimsídís, choinnítí na cártaí sin. An duine is mó péirí a bhain an cluiche.

- Cluichí meáitseála eile: dúradáin le huimhreacha nó le pictiúirí, míreanna mearaí, ag meaitseáil stocaí nuaghlanta, sórtáil cnaipí/críáin/blocanna tógála de réir cineáil nó méide, bábóg rúiseach a bhaint as a chéile agus a chur le chéile arís, srl.

- ‘Feicim féin’ (http://talkirish.com/forums/t/798.aspx ) a úsáid, ach in áit ‘Feicim féin le mo shúil bheag ghéar, rud a thosaíonn ar ‘M’...’ (m.sh. muc), úsáid ‘Feicim féin le mo shúil bheag ghéar rud a fhuaimníonn mar broc’ le go dtógfaidh siad an rím sa rann.

-Treo: nuair atá tú ag léamh scéil do do pháiste, lean an téacs le do mhéar, sa dóigh is go dtuigfidh siad go dtéann focail agus litreacha ó chlé go deas.

- Rannta agus amhráin a aithris. Tá sé cruthaithe go dtagann léitheoireacht níos éasca do na páistí sin a fhoghlaimíonn amhráin agus rannta a bhfuil rím iontu. Agus go bhfuil comhrá le daoine fásta agus le páistí a gcomhaois féin de dhíth. An mó teanga labhartha atá ag do pháiste ag dul isteach sa scoil dó/di, is amhlaidh is fusa a thiocfaidh léitheoireacht chucu. Bain triail as: http://www.teachnet.ie/clane/2008/index.html

- labhair le do pháiste: gnáthchomhrá, comhrá faoi chúrsaí ina saol, scéalta, míniú ar cad is bláthanna ann, nó spéir, nó scamaill, nó aon rud eile a chuireann siad ceist faoi…

- Taithí ar ábhar cló: má tá leabhair agus irisí thart sa teach, agus na páistí eolach ar an slí a n-oibríonn léitheoireacht trí bheith ag amharc ar dhaoine eile sa teach á déanamh, beidh siad cleachtaithe le coincheapanna ar nós ord leathanach, pictiúirí a chuireann leis an téacs, scéalaíocht agus cruth na litreach. Léigh leabhair leo go minic, bígí sa leabharlann go rialta, bíodh áit speisialta, so-aimsithe sa teach do leabhair do pháiste



How can we make reading easier for our children? There are some pre-reading games and strategies that we, as parents, can use to help them with the necessary skills.


For example:

- Matching: there is no need to buy any special box from the shop. When my children were young, they had a matching game that they played with my own father and a pack of ordinary playing cards. They would play with a whole pack or half a pack. He used to lay all the cards down, faces down, and he and the children would take turns in turning up two cards and trying to find pairs. Every pair found was kept by the person who found it. The person with the most pairs was the winner.

- Other matching games: dominoes with numbers or pictures, jigsaw puzzles, matching newly washed socks, sorting buttons/crayons/building blocks by type or size, taking Russian dolls apart and putting them back together again, etc.

- ‘Feicim féin’ (http://talkirish.com/forums/t/798.aspx ) Use ‘I spy’ - ‘Feicim féin le mo shúil bheag ghéar, rud a thosaíonn ar ‘M’...’ (e.g. muc),but use a sound rhyme rather than the letter - ‘Feicim féin le mo shúil bheag ghéar rud a fhuaimníonn mar broc’ so that they will listen to the rhyme in the verse. In English or Irish (e.g. I spy with my little eye something that sounds like ‘door’ – ‘floor’)

-Directions: when you are reading a story to your child, follow the text with your finger, so that they will understand that words and letters go from left to right.

- Say rhymes and sing songs. It has been shown that reading comes easier to children who have learnt rhymes and songs with rhyming in them And that conversation with adults and their peers is needed. The more spoken language - of any kind – that a child has going into school, the easier they will find reading. Try:
http://www.teachnet.ie/clane/2008/index.html

- speak to your child: ordinary conversation, conversation about whatever crops up in their lives, stories, explanations about what flowers are, what sky is, or clouds, or anything else that they bring up....

- experience of print: if there are books and magazines around the house, and children are familiar with the workings of reading through watching other people in the house doing this, they will be familiar with such concepts as page order, pictures that help explain the text, storytelling and letter forms. Read books together often, go to the library regularly, have an accessible specific place for your child’s books.