3 Simple Tips to Help Your Child Become a Better Read
3
Simple Tips to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader
Learning to read
at a young age confers great benefits for the development of the child. It
helps them develop a better understand of their surroundings, allows them to
gather information from printed materials, and provides them with a wonderful
source of entertainment when they read stories and rhymes. Children develop at
different rates, and some children will develop reading skills quicker than
other children; however, what's important is that as the parent, you are keenly
aware of your child's maturity and reading level to provide them with
appropriate books and activities to help them improve.
Here's a video showing
how a 2 year old toddler can learn to read:
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how it's done? Click
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As parents, you are the
most important teacher for your children. You will introduce your child to
books and reading. Below we have 3 simple tips to help you teach your child to
read.
Reading
Tip #1: Teach Letter Sounds.
When you begin teaching
your child to read, most parents will start with the alphabet
letter names; however, the best approach to take - backed up by real
science and research - is to teach your child alphabet letters and sounds at
the same time. Studies have shown that children learn best when they are taught
the letter names and letter sounds at the same time. In one study, 58 preschool
children were randomly assigned to receive instructions in letter names and
sounds, letter sound only, or numbers (control group). The results of this
study are consistent with past research results in that it found children
receiving letter name and sound instruction were most likely to learn the
sounds of letters whose names included cues to their sounds. [1]
To learn more, we have
this discussed in great deail here.
Teaching
Tip #2: From Left to Right
It
may seem so intuitive and natural to a parent that we always read from left to
right; however, we're not born knowing this. This is why you'll often see small
toddlers and young children try to read right to left at times.
This is why it's
important to emphasize with your child that the proper reading order should be
from left to right, and top to bottom.
Teaching Reading Tip
#3: Final Consonant Blends
Teach final consonant
blends first. Teaching words such "at" and "and" can lead
your child directly to learning words that rhyme with these. For example, for
"at", you can have:
Lat
Pat
Mat
Cat
Sat
Bat
Spat
Chat
Pat
Mat
Cat
Sat
Bat
Spat
Chat
For "and",
you can have these rhyming words:
Sand
Band
Land
Hand
Stand
Bland
Brand
Grand
and so on...
Band
Land
Hand
Stand
Bland
Brand
Grand
and so on...
You can start teaching
blends once your child has learned the sounds of some consonants and short
vowel sounds. You don't need to wait until your child has mastered the sounds
of all the letters before teaching blends.
Learning to read is a
long process, but it doesn't have to be a difficult process. Broken down into
intuitive and logical steps, a child as young as two years old can learn to
read, and older children can accomplish even more.
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