Reading and Your Spanglish Bebé on SpanglishBaby™

If you follow La Mother Tongue, then you know that Sofía and I have been learning our Abecedario and the sounds for each letra and from the foto you can see that it becomes an entire familia event!  Check out our latest SpanglishBaby™ artículo, Reading and Your SpanglishBaby, about fostering reading with your young tot and take advantage of some handy resources available for your personal use!

Sight Words en Español

If you have been following my blog or my articles on SpanglishBaby™, then you know that Sofía and I have been learning our Abecedario, our letras and their sounds.  

Reading Specialist and early elementary grade teachers everywhere recommend that children learn sight words while on their path to becoming proficient readers.  Sight words are important to learn because they are words that make up a large part (about 70%) of all reading.  Usually they are words that are difficult to sound out and grasp concept through context.  Although I don’t need to worry about sight words yet since Sofía is just learning her abecedario, I did research sight words en Español to share with readers with children who are beginning to read.

One of the best ways to learn Sight Words is the old fashioned way:  through flashcards (and plain ole reading of course!).  As an educator, I can’t stress enough the usefulness of using flashcards with your children.  When the time comes and Sofía begins to learn to read, we will be using Sight Word flash cards in both languages. 

Scholastic has great resources for Sight Words in both Inglés and Español (Downloadable versions only cost 99¢ each!) Their links to Sight Word resources in Español can be accessed through my article on SpanglishBaby™.

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Resources Available in SpanglishBaby’s™ La Tiendita

La Tiendita

If you have been following my blog or my articles on SpanglishBaby™, then you know that Sofía and I have been learning our Abecedario, our letras and their sounds.  

SpanglishBaby™ has a Tiendita through Amazon where you can make purchases and part of the proceeds will benefit us in bringing you more fabulous prizes and opportunities. So, before purchasing any product for your Spanglish Baby that has to do with Español, always check first with our Tiendita.  Since Sofía has been born, I’ve done lots of searching for material (books, toys, and apparel) en Español.   I’ve noticed that if I do a search on Amazon on my own, these products (from La Tiendita) don’t necessarily show up (I think that foreign material products aren’t always tagged properly for searches) and there are some really good resources in La Tiendita!  I saw some authentic CD titles that I know I will be purchasing for Christmas!  What better way to reinforce rhyming than with classic children’s songs en Español! I also noticed that Leap Frog makes a Pesca de Letras toy.  Although it is no longer available through Amazon, I now have a “make and model” to be able to contact Leap Frog directly and ask for it!  All in all, a little parada in La Tiendita before purchasing through Amazon is a definitely worth the extra time spent! 
 

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Español Alphabet Pocket Chart

If you have been following my blog or my articles on SpanglishBaby™, then you know that Sofía and I have been learning our Abecedario, our letras and their sounds.  

In order to help facilitate my efforts, I purchased an Español Alphabet Pocket Chart made by Learning  Resources.  We LOVE it!  It is well-made, accurate, and their customer service center is outstanding!  I will definitely purchase their products again!  

The Pocket Chart comes with various picture cards that correspond with each letter and there are many copies of each letter so as to promote spelling too. (both upper and lower case as well as vowels with accent marks!) We can match letters with letters or letters with sounds or pictures with beginning letters or pictures with sounds.  Really it is worth every centavo spent and I know we will be using it for many years! 

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Interactive Abecedario Slide Show Game

If you have been following my blog or my articles on SpanglishBaby™, then you know that Sofía and I have been learning our Abecedario, our letras and their sounds.  Recently I created an Interactive Abecedario Slide Show Game in Español for Sofía and me to play— usually while we eat breakfast.  You arewelcome to download it for your personal use. Once you do, you can also add additional pictures for each letter.  For example, in the Slide Show, A is for Abeja (bee) and you could add in an avión (airplane), agua and árbol (tree) to provide more examples and variety.  Sofía recently has been telling me her ideas of additional words that begin with each letter and thus she has really been creating her own personalized game.  We have been incorporating them in slowly.  (For example, our Gato is now holding a globo!) Because the Slide Show is in Español, you could also use it as a tool for your niños to learn some new vocabulary if Español isn’t one of your languages. Remember that small niños learn through sounds and pictures, so a bilingual (Español/Inglés) Slide Show would need to represent each language with the SAME letter and object.  For example:  A is for airplane and avión.   B is for boots and botas.  C is for car and carro.  D is for dinosaur and dinosaurio. 

Sofía loves the Interactive Abecedario Slide Show Game.  Hope your niños enjoy it también!

This post is a linked additional information section for an article called Reading and Your SpanglishBaby on SpanglishBaby™.