A highly effective way to teach beginning reading skills in grades 1-3 is memory reading.
It allows beginning students to learn about print conventions and practice reading with familiar texts.
"Memory Reading: Using Poetry, Nursery Rhymes, and Songs to Teach Beginning Reading Skills" shows teachers and parents how to teach memory reading.
It includes information on how to select passages and create follow-up activities.
It includes several sample memory reading passages for different grades and/or phases of learning to read and spell.
As an added bonus,
it also includes poetry recommendations from The Waldorf Book of Animal Poetry edited by David Kennedy.
There are poetry recommendations for the phonics rule in The Roadmap to Literacy.
