Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Digital Books to Use on Zoom for SWI

You can tell I'm on vacation! Posts and posts of lists. I'm trying hard to keep my mind clear and relaxed, so I'm writing things down as they bubble up.

Of course, even though I'm not teaching summer camps right now, I'm still doing Zoom tutoring. COVID was the first time I began working remotely with homeschool families in this way, leading main lesson blocks or special subjects via Zoom. It has its pros and cons. One of the cons is that it is hard to read a book together. Today I went looking for some kind of digital book that I could use on Zoom when my student and I were practicing reading and looking for interesting words to analyze. And guess what I found!!!

The International Children's Digital Library.

Like Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, the books are mainly old and copyright-free. But it focuses specifically on children's books and has a nifty page turning device that makes it nice when working on Zoom. Also, if I double-click on a word, it highlights it so she can see what I'm looking at.

There are also modern books which have been published in other countries (I've found India, Malaysia, Croatia, Kenya, Jamaica, Hungary, Sri Lanka, Iran, Rwanda, New Zealand, Russia, and Philippines so far).

Today we began Battle of the Monkey and the Crab from the Japanese Fairy Tale Series (book #3).

This child is 8 so we were mainly focusing on finding words where we could show the structure with our bodies (make a fist for a base, put two fingers in front for a prefix, put two fingers in back for a suffix, put two fists together for a compound word). We would read along and then pause at a word and show with our hands how it is built. The print is nice and large and the story is an interesting one, so that helps too.

Here are the words we looked at today:

    go + ing
    pick + ed
    toast + ed
    see + ing
    wish + ing
    some + thing
    plant + ed
    persimmon + s
    climb + ing
    un + ripe
    bad + ly
    bruise + ed
    escape + ed
    relative + s
    house + hold
    surprise + ed
    declare + ed
    attack + ed


We also did tap spelling for < high >. Two taps. H IGH. Her first trigraph!

We paused at the bottom of the page on a cliffhanger. And made predictions.

I really love the size of the print in this story -- and the content is perfect for age 8 -- and so I am going to try to find other books from the series!


Japanese Fairy Tale Series

Momotaro
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom
Kachi Kachi Mountain
The Mouse's Wedding
The Old Man & The Devils
Urashima, The Fisher-Boy
The Serpent With Eight Heads
The Matsuyama Mirror
The Hare of Inaba
The Cub's Triumph
The Silly Jelly-Fish
The Princes Fire-Flash and Fire-Fade
My Lord Bag-O'-Rice
The Wonderful Tea Kettle
Schippeitaro
The Ogre's Arm
The Ogres of Oyeyama
The Enchanted Waterfall



#1 - Momotaro or Little Peachling
Abstract: An old couple find a large peach in a river. When they cut it open, a child emerges. They name him Momotaro, or Little Peachling. The child grows up and decides to set off on an exciting adventure.


#3 - Battle of the Monkey and the Crab
Abstract: Battle of the Monkey and the Crab tells how the monkey tricked the crab, and how the crabs got revenge with the help of rice-mortar, pounder, bee, and egg.



#4 - The Old Man Who Made the Dead Trees Blossom
Abstract: Good things happen to a good man, while bad things happen to his bad neighbor.



#5 - Kachi Kachi Mountain
Abstract: This Japanese fairy tale tells the story of a farmer's encounter with a badger and a rabbit.



#9 - The Serpent with Eight Heads
Abstract: This Japanese tale tells the story of a fairy, guardian of the sea, who encounters an eight-headed serpent.



#10 - The Matsuyama Mirror
Abstract: This Japanese fairy tale relates the story of a young girl whose mother gives her a special mirror.



#11 - The Hare of Inaba
Abstract: This Japanese fairy tale tells the story of eighty-one brothers and their encounters with a hare.



#13 - The Silly Jelly-Fish
Abstract: The Dragon King sent a jellyfish to Monkeyland to get a monkey whose liver could be used to cure the young Dragon Queen's illness. Read to find out how the monkey tricked the jellyfish, and why jellyfish have no bones today.


I also like the look of


P.S.
Wow. Just wow.

I just found the Book of One Syllable (1880). I had no idea such a thing existed! Pete Bowers was saying one time that he was trying to do SWI with a typical early reader and there weren't any prefixes or suffixes where the child could analyze anything (it was a book from Primary Phonics). That is so true. And here we find a book made entirely of words of only one syllable. I suppose that would be useful if you were introducing syllables as "beats" and you wanted some examples to get you started. It is pretty fun to read...

Pic-nic is an early reader in the old style, where two syllable words were indicated with a hyphen (to help early readers). That might be interesting to look at as well.


P.P.S.
By the way, in case you loved the Oz books as much as I did, they have a bunch of them on here!!!!

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