Reading preschooler to read

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Anonymous wrote:Parent and teacher here. I strongly recommend you leave the teaching to his teachers. Just read to him, play rhyming games....

I agree with this because of the opportunity cost. Teachers are paid to teach kids to read. I need to teach my kid manners, how to dress himself, how to unload a dishwasher, how to cross a street safety, consent, how to ride the metro and bus, how to be a good friend, how to cook, how to clean, how to do laundry, how to change light bulbs, all about emotions and how to manage them, self discipline, the best way to pet a cat, and how to brush his teeth.

Teachers aren’t going to teach that stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:I did the same thing with both my kids, reading and pointing out text. One of them could read before he could talk (he was in EI and his therapist figured it out). By kindergarten he coul read virtually anything. The other will be 6 in October and can't read anything other than his name.
So it might just be genetic.

Being able to read at a young age without being taught is actually pretty common in children on the autism spectrum.

Found the insecure parent of a late reader.

This is sad to me that you read that comment so negatively. There are lots of ways to learn. Picking up reading early is a superpower in neurodiverent children.

It’s fear mothering to tell someone their child’s achievements are ACTUALLY a symptom.

You know who else early reading without instruction is common in? Gifted children. You could have suggested that. I wonder why you didn’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did the same thing with both my kids, reading and pointing out text. One of them could read before he could talk (he was in EI and his therapist figured it out). By kindergarten he coul read virtually anything. The other will be 6 in October and can't read anything other than his name.
So it might just be genetic.

We learned my kid could read from her preschool teacher who found her reading to other children. She had her own circle time going. I have pictures. Its comical. She continued to be a good student but a very regular person....no Harvard at 12.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent and teacher here. I strongly recommend you leave the teaching to his teachers. Just read to him, play rhyming games....

I agree with this because of the opportunity cost. Teachers are paid to teach kids to read. I need to teach my kid manners, how to dress himself, how to unload a dishwasher, how to cross a street safety, consent, how to ride the metro and bus, how to be a good friend, how to cook, how to clean, how to do laundry, how to change light bulbs, all about emotions and how to manage them, self discipline, the best way to pet a cat, and how to brush his teeth.

Teachers aren’t going to teach that stuff.

NP. I put teaching my kid to read on this list. I think early reading is important and it's easier to learn one-on-one than in a classroom. It only takes 20 minutes a day if you do it consistently.

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I’m planning on doing ABC Hear Do with my next kid. I’ve heard amazing things from homeschool Instagram about this. Plus it looks so cute and fun!

https://www.abcseeheardo.com/

[Anonymous]

Teaching your kids the sounds letters make as you expose them to letters and written words should be the norm. Some people only teach their kids the names of the letters without also teaching the sounds they make in words. Kids should have letters to play with and someone should be identifying the sounds for them.

From there it's logical to explain how putting letters together to make a word like CAT works. Once you have given the child these tools to learn how to read you don't really have to do more unless you want to. Many children can take it from there.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition https://a.co/d/cObSHJ9

I successfully taught 3 children to read before 5 using this book. I love that it guided me with what to say even if they made a mistake. I just finished with my son now. What we did was do a chapter a night and then read a BOB book a night. Once we had made it to about lesson 40, BOB books were a great addition. He was so excited he could read a "book" and it propelled his learning.

Bob books aren't needed though if you don't want to buy. Simple board books that you had for your toddlers are good too (like Moo Baa LaLaLa or Goodnight moon) or even Dr. Seuss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teaching your kids the sounds letters make as you expose them to letters and written words should be the norm. Some people only teach their kids the names of the letters without also teaching the sounds they make in words. Kids should have letters to play with and someone should be identifying the sounds for them.

From there it's logical to explain how putting letters together to make a word like CAT works. Once you have given the child these tools to learn how to read you don't really have to do more unless you want to. Many children can take it from there.

While I don't disagree, I think this would be a good way to teach an easier language like Spanish. Spanish has lovely rules. English is a hot mess with irregular pronunciations. Take "was" and "has"- they don't rhyme. Or "Said". Teach your child to read in 100 lessons does wonderful phonics work, but also reading comprehension, guessing, memorization and looking at the picture to get the word right.

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Anonymous wrote:Parent and teacher here. I strongly recommend you leave the teaching to his teachers. Just read to him, play rhyming games....

With due respect— I disagree with this advice. My sister is a teacher and she encourages all parents to teach their children to read as soon as they show readiness. A kid falling behind or struggling in reading has their entire academic future impacted. We taught our daughter at 3 through games, reading to her, some lessons.

I'm a parent and a teacher and I also think there's zero harm in working with a kid on reading IF they are showing readiness and IF you don't make it stressful. It shouldn't be lessons, it should be fun. Oh wow, look at the book! Book starts with /b/ sound. (Make sure you're not saying "buh" for b or "tuh" for t, etc).

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Toddlers Can read YouTube has a lot of resources

Reading is not a skill that is picked up like speaking, it has to be deliberately taught.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read

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I taught all of my children between 4 and 5 with Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. It's foolproof.

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There are several older threads on DCUM which cover this in detail.

I strongly disagree with whoever said not to teach your child. We have been teaching our children to read at home at preschool age (roughly 3-5 yrs old) for at least 4 generations now, with exact timing varying with each child’s interest and readiness. It has consistently paid off with children who are good readers, with great comprehension, and who love to read both as children and as adults.

The 100 Days book has worked for many, and is a good option, but it did not happen to work well for us.

Teach the phonetic sound of each letter first. Defer teaching the “name” of each letter until much later on. For “c” use the “k” sound at first, then later explain it also can have a different sound. For vowels, start with short vowel sounds. We used the Jolly Phonics materials to teach this, 2-3 pages each day. A quirk of JP is that it does not teach that ph- has an f- sound, but that is easily fixed.

Once they have the basic set of Phonics down, buy or borrow the Bob Books and work through those one after another. Have child read out loud to you each day for maybe 5-10 minutes. Keep reading to them daily. Tell them that you read you them each day and now they also will read to you. Start by reading maybe 2-3 pages/day from the Bob books. The Bob books introduce sounds in a reasonable sequence and are careful to only use words which 100% follow the rules of Phonics.

After that, move to Phonics based early readers. Multiple good options exist; we used the Jolly Phonics readers, in sequence, all the way through. This approach gives the child both skills and confidence.

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Also, a large slice of English words are “sight words” which just have to be memorized. Avoid those words until after DC is comfortable reading phonetic words.

DCUM has vehement disputes about the exact percentages, but one analysis said 40% of English words 100% follow Phonics rules, another 40% of words partially follow Phonics rules, and the remainder are just sight words.

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Anonymous wrote:I did the same thing with both my kids, reading and pointing out text. One of them could read before he could talk (he was in EI and his therapist figured it out). By kindergarten he coul read virtually anything. The other will be 6 in October and can't read anything other than his name.
So it might just be genetic.

Being able to read at a young age without being taught is actually pretty common in children on the autism spectrum.

Found the insecure parent of a late reader.

This is sad to me that you read that comment so negatively. There are lots of ways to learn. Picking up reading early is a superpower in neurodiverent children.

With a sample size around 5000, only about 15 kids were unable to learn to read before age 6 when taught 1:1 starting at age 3. The median child was reading 3rd grade, 1st semester by the end of kindergarten at that preschool (which is not located here). So neuro-typical is to read comfortably before 1st grade, provided child is given 5-10 minutes of phonics or reading aloud each school day for a 9 month school year.

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Anonymous wrote:I did the same thing with both my kids, reading and pointing out text. One of them could read before he could talk (he was in EI and his therapist figured it out). By kindergarten he coul read virtually anything. The other will be 6 in October and can't read anything other than his name.
So it might just be genetic.

Being able to read at a young age without being taught is actually pretty common in children on the autism spectrum.

Found the insecure parent of a late reader.

This is sad to me that you read that comment so negatively. There are lots of ways to learn. Picking up reading early is a superpower in neurodiverent children.

Thanks. He is in 3rd grade now and doing very well. He might be a touch "aspie" but he has friends who seem to like him a lot.