My Introduction and What You Can Expect On Future Posts

Hi everyone. I would like to take this time to introduce myself as I am new to Big Universe. My name is Amy Snyder and I am a 35-year-old mother of two boys, ages 7-years-old and age 20-months-old, and this makes me truly aware of the importance of literacy.

I have found, in my own experience, that reading is much harder than learning how to speak.  Speaking comes natural to children – they hear, they listen, and then they speak.  Reading is much different as it has to be learned.

I am going to start my post off with a list of 3 words out of the 100 on the high frequency word list. Each weekly post that I write, I will include 3 more. It is said that if a child can learn these words, then the child can read approximately 70% of what is needed for the future. Amazing isn’t it?

Also, I will be writing about children’s books that I have read, and we have a favorite about not letting a pigeon drive a school bus that I will write about next week, and about literacy in multiple ways.

I hope you enjoy spending quality time with your children as they begin to explore and learn a whole new world while learning to read.

Week 1 High Frequency Word List
1. the
2. am
3. and

Tip: Write these three words on separate index cards and quiz your child on these words. You will be amazed at how quickly they can learn by repeating this process a few times.

- Amy E. Snyder