How to Teach Reading Strategies With Picture Books
In elementary education picture books are often utilized to develop reading skills. As you know most children beginning their elementary school education are less likely to possess reading skills. This is unless the child was involved in a reading program in a daycare setting.
- Use the picture books to begin teaching your students word association and recognition. As you may know elementary school reading teachers begin with simple words and phrases to begin teaching these reading skills to their students. Use the pictures and words found in these picture books to enable the students to associate words with the pictures in the books.
- Use the actions depicted in these picture books to allow the students to predict what is happening in the picture. If the student is correct allow them to find the word within the page that describes this action.
- Use the pictures within these picture books to teach your students the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives. For example teach your students the concept of nouns by associating the word "noun" with the character's name.
- Teach the concept of verbs by allowing your students to identify what the character is doing in the pictures. Instruct the students to associate the word "verb" with these actions. This will enable the student to understand that actions performed by the character are verbs.
- Teach the concept of adjectives by allowing the students identify the color of the character's clothing. The use of color is basic concept and easier for children to associate with adjectives. Instruct your students to associate a color word that describes the character's clothing with the word "adjective."