When and how did you start teaching your kid to read?

Anonymous
The posts about learning to read got me thinking. My child is going to start k this fall and so I haven't even been thinking of reading or anything like that but I would like to find out more to help her this year. Is it something your kids learned in k or something your practiced at Home? Dd still has trouble identifying many letters and almost no numbers. Are there books that helped show dc how tO put letters together to make a word? Or should I just back off and let her learn this stuff at school?
Anonymous
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Awesome book, easy to do with your kid. We started the summer before kindergarten and didn't do it every day, so finished around Christmas. It really did help my son, I don't think he would have been at the same level at the end of the year or going into first grade if we hadn't gone through the book at home.

If she isn't even recognizing all her letters yet, I would definitely do something additional at home; the teacher won't have a lot of time to work with her individually.

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345662479&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+read+in+100+easy+lessons
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Awesome book, easy to do with your kid. We started the summer before kindergarten and didn't do it every day, so finished around Christmas. It really did help my son, I don't think he would have been at the same level at the end of the year or going into first grade if we hadn't gone through the book at home.

If she isn't even recognizing all her letters yet, I would definitely do something additional at home; the teacher won't have a lot of time to work with her individually.

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345662479&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+read+in+100+easy+lessons


This. We started at about 4 doing it occassionally, stopping for a while and going back when she needed a confidence booster. She is 70 lessons in at four and a half, and she can read simple books easily, but is just starting with two-syllable words. I highly recommend this program!
Anonymous
Story on NPR earlier this summer that the #1 thing you can do to help your child learn to read is read to them. Over time kids begin to recognize that all those squiggly shapes on the page have meaning and it can evolve from there. Occasionally bring the child's attention to the words and not just the pictures.

My 2yo recognizes all her letters and so now if we're reading a book like Brown Bear Brown Bear with lots of repetition, I might ask her to point to the letter B. That's it, and move on from there. We have some books that she now knows by heart and "reads" each page. That's another step in pre-literacy.
Anonymous
we didn't; it happened very naturally when he was four and started to responding aloud to signs and the like. if your daughter is going to start K soon, I'd just let the school take the lead in getting her reading, just so she's on track with the class and not confused if there are different methods or approaches. there's no rush, honestly.
Anonymous
We didn't. We read to then from infancy and they developed an interest in letters and words on their own. DS is also a rising kindergartner, and we realized last year in the beginning of PreK that he was recognizing a lot of words.

Forcing it too early isn't good, IMO, and doesn't actually aid reading ability. Reading involved a complex set of skills, many of which are developmental.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Awesome book, easy to do with your kid. We started the summer before kindergarten and didn't do it every day, so finished around Christmas. It really did help my son, I don't think he would have been at the same level at the end of the year or going into first grade if we hadn't gone through the book at home.

If she isn't even recognizing all her letters yet, I would definitely do something additional at home; the teacher won't have a lot of time to work with her individually.

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345662479&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+read+in+100+easy+lessons


This. We started at about 4 doing it occassionally, stopping for a while and going back when she needed a confidence booster. She is 70 lessons in at four and a half, and she can read simple books easily, but is just starting with two-syllable words. I highly recommend this program!


That book looks great. Does anyone know if this book would work for kids just shy of 3? Our 2.8 year old knows all her letters (thank you daycare!) and has been asking us at night during book time "what does that word say?" while she points at words. I think they do it in daycare while the kids sit during circle time. And we have no idea what we're doing and don't want to push her or discourage her. Does that make sense? Our plan was just to keep reading to her and try to figure it all out later.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Awesome book, easy to do with your kid. We started the summer before kindergarten and didn't do it every day, so finished around Christmas. It really did help my son, I don't think he would have been at the same level at the end of the year or going into first grade if we hadn't gone through the book at home.

If she isn't even recognizing all her letters yet, I would definitely do something additional at home; the teacher won't have a lot of time to work with her individually.

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345662479&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+read+in+100+easy+lessons


This. We started at about 4 doing it occassionally, stopping for a while and going back when she needed a confidence booster. She is 70 lessons in at four and a half, and she can read simple books easily, but is just starting with two-syllable words. I highly recommend this program!


That book looks great. Does anyone know if this book would work for kids just shy of 3? Our 2.8 year old knows all her letters (thank you daycare!) and has been asking us at night during book time "what does that word say?" while she points at words. I think they do it in daycare while the kids sit during circle time. And we have no idea what we're doing and don't want to push her or discourage her. Does that make sense? Our plan was just to keep reading to her and try to figure it all out later.


You can get the book and see if she is into it. The first few lessons are very basic. If she isn't able to concentrate enough, set it down for a couple months and then pick it back up again. The book has a lot of very specific instructions for parents and does not encourage pushing past the child's ability faster than they want. If she does like it, I would probably try doing it once or twice a week and separate out the writing part to another day. The writing practice was amazing. Because we were doing it slowly, and my child has a love for this type of thing, I had her practice writing the number of the lesson (that is, writing "1" after lesson 1) when she was done. She absolutely loved it, and now she can write very well.
Anonymous
Montessori preschool, plus lots of reading to him at home and playing around with alphabet sounds, etc.
Anonymous
I can't say enough good things about "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons". I started when DC was 2.5. DC showed an interest in reading. I did not push it. DC started reading paragraphs by 3. I don't think there there was much comprehension and there was a pleateau where the interest just wasn't there anymore so I backed off but the foundation will always be there. I should also add that DC has loved books since babyhood and we are constantly reading books in our house.
Anonymous
Our DD gets some amount of screen time, and in order to assuage some of my FTM guilt about that we made it educational websites - in particular she spent a lot of time on starfall.com, which I think gave her a good handle on phonics and helped her learn to read on the early side.

And then lots of us reading together and her seeing us read.
Anonymous
Leap Frog Letter Factory and Talking Words DVDs are great.
Anonymous
I have no idea how to teach kids to read. I just read to the four of them at least twice a day, and they get to the library at least twice a week. It starts with memorizing and breaks down into reading from there. My older set is walking into Kinder knowing how to read.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Leap Frog Letter Factory and Talking Words DVDs are great.


Agree! My 4 yo is in the process of learning to read right now, but the Letter Factory DVD was GReAT for teaching him the letter sounds. We also got the magnetic LeapFrog fridge letters. Watched the DvD over and over and he loved it.

We also read to DS a ton, but i try to actively teach him about sounding out words using the phonics that he learned from the DvD.
Anonymous
We didn't. We read to her every night. She is a voracious reader now.
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