Keen-to-Read Books
Endearing picture books to help your child become a fluent reader.
WORD FAMILY TALES BOOST READING & SPELLING SKILLS
Colourful Picture Books to help children pick up many words & learn letter sounds
in a fun, efficient, & meaningful way.
WHAT ARE WORD FAMILIES?
A word family is a group of words that not only rhyme, but the rhyming part, which we will call the riming chunk, is also spelt the same way. For example; keen, been, seen, queen, green belong to one family, and bean, mean, clean to another.
WHY WORD FAMILY TALES CAN HELP YOUR CHILD PICK UP READING AND SPELLING SKILLS
- They develop an awareness of the relationship between letters and the sounds they make.
- They are an efficient way for children to pick up many, many words.
- Children meet each word family in a story context with colourful pictures. This not only helps children learn these words and their usage, but also helps them form memorable associations between the words in the family.
- Children love rhyming words. They love chanting rhyming verses.
- Word families provide predictable patterns within our inconsistent English language. For instance, within a word family, the vowel sounds are predictable.
- It is fun playing with word families - and unlike rules, they are easy to remember.
- These books encourage children to develop effective decoding techniques.
- Children learn word families within a language-rich setting, which keeps the focus on reading for meaning. There are opportunities for kids to make feasible predictions based on context, language patterns, and the letter patterns within words etc., which help kids develop a range of reading skills.
- All these beneficial features come within a delightful story, which helps create a love of reading. The more children love reading, the more reading they will do, and the more proficient they will become.
Thumbnail of inside Page-That Fat Rat And My Cat
(Book Size approx. A5)
A Word Family Tale