Reading and Flip Folder Books

Hello and welcome to Emily's Exciting Activities/Ideas! I am a preschool teacher along with a student at Southwest Minnesota State University, obtaining my BS in Early Childhood Education. As a teacher, it is fun and helpful to share ideas with other teachers that can be implemented into the classroom. I hope to share ideas on this blog that may interest you. This is my very first blog and I hope you enjoy it.

As a teacher I realize how important reading fosters education and helps children integrate into our society. The concept of reading starts very young, with children being read too as infants. The more a child is read too while growing up, the easier it will be for them as they start reading themselves. There are many different concepts involved in reading. As a child is read too, they hear words being pronounced. They can also gain memorization skills as they listen to the story, remembering the plot of what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. Pictures found on the page can help a beginning reader depict words. A lot goes into learning to read, such as recognizing letters along with there sounds, and developing phonemic awareness skills such as rhyming words or words with the same sounds in the beginning/end. When learning to read it is always more appealing if the learning is fun.

To incorporate rhyming into reading, I made a flip folder book as seen in the pictures. Rhyming is fun when it is silly, so when I made this book the one animal sits on the other animal. The outside sections of the book flip back and forth. By having the sections flip children can change the pages to have different animals sit on each other, without the rhyming. With there being a picture of the animal, along with the name it can make it easier for beginner readers, as they only need to read the simple sight words in the middle. Do you have a young child learning to read? Make a “Silly Animal Rhyming Words” book or any other flip folder book that they may enjoy!