Many parents like to help their children at home, to prepare them for school or reinforce what school does with them in the day. It is a great way of keeping their child ahead of the rest and giving them essential skills to help them in the future. Learning to read is a basic skill that children need to help them with all their other subjects in school, therefore it seems the best place to start when trying to help them at home. But where do you find out how to teach your child to read?
Firstly it is a good idea to find out from their school whether there are any particular methods of teaching reading that they use. It can be difficult for a child if they have learnt at home one way and then are taught something different at school. They may end up starting from scratch and being labelled as a poor reader just because they don't use the same method to read as everyone else.
A lot of schools use phonics to help them read these days, and if your child's school does then that will be very useful to you, as everyone teaches phonics in the same way so you can't go wrong if you are helping your child.
Phonics is the method of reading that breaks down words into their smallest parts or sounds. The children learn each of the sounds on their own and then learn to put them back together into a word. This means that they have the tools to be able to decode words that they have never seen before. There are some words that don't follow these rules and they have to be learned (such as the, come, I, could etc). Learning these is a good place to start as a lot of these words are ones that they will come across very early on when they are reading as they are common words.
You can teach these by using flashcards and saying the word when you hold up the card. You can create two cards with each word and play snap, but they can only win the cards if they say the word rather than 'snap'. You can play word bingo, when they cover the word with a counter when you call it out. There are lots of ways to make these more interesting.
Learning the phonics can be fun too. You can play sound lotto or other similar games. You can play action games when you hold up the name of an action and they have to carry it out such as jog, run, jump, hop and other phonic action words. The key is lots of practice but try to make it fun. Don't make reading the book seem like a chore. Play lots of games with the words and make reading fun. Don't introduce books for them to read to you too early. Let them learn to enjoy books by snuggling up with them and reading their favourite books to them so they learn what a pleasurable experience it is, and want to be able to learn to read the books themselves.
Firstly it is a good idea to find out from their school whether there are any particular methods of teaching reading that they use. It can be difficult for a child if they have learnt at home one way and then are taught something different at school. They may end up starting from scratch and being labelled as a poor reader just because they don't use the same method to read as everyone else.
A lot of schools use phonics to help them read these days, and if your child's school does then that will be very useful to you, as everyone teaches phonics in the same way so you can't go wrong if you are helping your child.
Phonics is the method of reading that breaks down words into their smallest parts or sounds. The children learn each of the sounds on their own and then learn to put them back together into a word. This means that they have the tools to be able to decode words that they have never seen before. There are some words that don't follow these rules and they have to be learned (such as the, come, I, could etc). Learning these is a good place to start as a lot of these words are ones that they will come across very early on when they are reading as they are common words.
You can teach these by using flashcards and saying the word when you hold up the card. You can create two cards with each word and play snap, but they can only win the cards if they say the word rather than 'snap'. You can play word bingo, when they cover the word with a counter when you call it out. There are lots of ways to make these more interesting.
Learning the phonics can be fun too. You can play sound lotto or other similar games. You can play action games when you hold up the name of an action and they have to carry it out such as jog, run, jump, hop and other phonic action words. The key is lots of practice but try to make it fun. Don't make reading the book seem like a chore. Play lots of games with the words and make reading fun. Don't introduce books for them to read to you too early. Let them learn to enjoy books by snuggling up with them and reading their favourite books to them so they learn what a pleasurable experience it is, and want to be able to learn to read the books themselves.
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