Understanding what Children See in Books

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village and I'll be teaching you some steps to teach a child to read. Let's start reading what a child sees. You're going to learn how you decoded words and letters to learn to read and you're going to take a step back to go forward to learn to what your child sees. This is old English. This is the way people used to speak. We're not looking at middle English, just old English. If you look at this first sentence. Eft he axode. That's real. We all spoke that way at one time. And I look at that, I'm clueless, I don't know what it means but I know what the word he means because what this means today, this was the old English and what it means today, if I was to decode this, again he asked. Eft he axode. So I know what the word he means. Your child will start learning to recognize words. This is one way to decode words and that's why rhyming books are important. They hear and see the same word. Candel, in old old English it was pronounced candle. It's not spelled the same but another technique a child will use to decode as we learned to decode is does it sound like it? Appel was the word for apple. This word, ceod, ceod? Ceod doesn't look anything like bag. See it through your child's eyes, they're not familiar with the words. Have patience, know that they'll be breaking it down by words that they've seen before and by sounds and if it looks the same. Egyptian hierogliphics, these, this particular hierogliphic was actually on a lot of your old old places in Egypt, and see the symbol eye? What word would you put with that? Eye, which is I. What does a heart represent? Love. And the letter u, you. People used pictures to learn to read and speak since the beginning of times as even these ancient Egyptian hierogliphics. So is it important and will you be teaching your child to read through pictures? Yes and recognizing different decoding skills so again, be aware of what a child sees when you read to him or her. "