How to Teach Your Child to Read2062892
Should parents teach their children to read, and if so how can they do it in an enjoyable manner? There is a very strong emphasis on kids learning to read these days. Learning to read starts nicely before your child is even in a position to speak. What we teach our children early in their lives about our partnership with reading and books will directly affect how well your child will learn to read. Parents that place a strong emphasis on reading raise good readers. There is a lot to learn about written language from books, and as you read to your child frequently, they will more easily pick up the flow of written language thereby making them much better readers.
Introducing language in its written form by reading to your child early in their life is one of the most important steps parents can take in raising great readers. Kids that are not read to have a tendency to struggle a lot more when learning to read simply because they are not familiar with the language of books.
There are easy methods to teach your child to read. The most clever way of teaching children to learn the sounds of the letters as nicely as the phonemes is via the use of pictures. By utilizing photos to first introduce the sounds it is much easier for a child to keep in mind the rules and the sounds on the letters. When we teach children to read we can actually teach them to read through the use of photos before we introduce the letter or letters. This is a all-natural and simple way for kids to learn to read.
The way this is done for instance would be to introduce a picture of an apple to your child. Explain to your child that this is an apple and the starting sound of the word apple is the short a sound. Every time you see the apple card, you make the brief a sound. On the opposite side of the apple card is the letter A. In this way you can effortlessly switch back and forth from pictures to actual letters to easily teach your child all the sounds. You then introduce other letter sounds via photos. Once your child knows a few sounds from the picture cards you can begin teaching them to blend sounds using the picture cards initially.
When your child is ready you can then use the letter side of the cards. If at anytime your child forgets the sound of the letters, you can flip them over and let the image determine the sound for your child. You will find that by utilizing this method your child can effortlessly learn to read words inside the first few lessons.
The very best reading plan that I have found to teach children to read is known as Fundamentals. This program relies on the use of pictures to introduce and enforce the sounds of the letters which are necessary in order to learn how to read.
