Reading Readiness
- Kindergarten grade level The
reading readiness program consists of 6 strands:
• Letter Identification-
This strand helps develop the student's ability to recognize the
uppercase and lowercase form of each letter of the alphabet, its letter
name and a picture associated with each letter.
• Visual Discrimination-
This strand provides instruction and practice in recognizing similarities
and differences in letters, words, and pictures.
• Auditory Discrimination
- This strand builds student's ability to distinguish similarities and
differences in letters, individual sounds and whole words.
• Vocabulary
Building- This strand improves students'
ability of understand oral language, which in turn improves work knowledge
and concept development. The student will match pictures on the screen
with words spoken by the computer voice.
• Comprehension Skills - In
this strand students listen to short stories and are asked to identify
major details to show awareness of main idea or to apply information to
a new situation.
FOR EXAMPLE: The computer will read "The
frog is big". The child will need to click on the frog.
The __________ is big.
• Special
Activities - This strand provides students with practice
in following directions, using thinking skills to solve problems and riddles,
and participating in nursery rhyme activities.
