How to teach kiddo to read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bob books or teach your child to read in 100 lessons or less.

Plus, there are a lot of good tablet apps that they can use daily. I have had success with the Reading Eggs App. Other people include Kahn Academy Kids, ABC Mouse, and Homer. In addition to teaching phonics, site word practice is helpful. We do 10 minutes of site words flashcards and DC reads a bob book to me every night (the whole process takes 15 minutes), then I read a bigger chapter book to DC until DC falls asleep.

Incredibly helpful! Thank you!!

[Anonymous]

Look up pre-reading skills. They are important. Don't skip past them. Then look up the basics of teaching reading so you can start in the right way.

Reading and Writing Basics, Reading Rockets
https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-and-writing-basics

[Anonymous]

Start with teaching letters but teach child the sound (ssss) the letter makes and not the name (ess) of the letter, then teach single letter Phonics (use k sound for C initially) and blends (ch,sh, ph, etc.), then the whole Bob Books series in order (2-3 pages each day, dor about 10 minutes/day, but every day).

Also, there are multiple older threads on this same topic. So also search for those. DCUM parents have varied opinions about reading, but our 3yr old was very very happy she could read (after we taught her via the steps above). We are happy we did not wait. Ahe now is a very enthusiastic reader - early reading was a turn on to love reading and was not a turn off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Start with teaching letters but teach child the sound (ssss) the letter makes and not the name (ess) of the letter, then teach single letter Phonics (use k sound for C initially) and blends (ch,sh, ph, etc.), then the whole Bob Books series in order (2-3 pages each day, dor about 10 minutes/day, but every day).

Also, there are multiple older threads on this same topic. So also search for those. DCUM parents have varied opinions about reading, but our 3yr old was very very happy she could read (after we taught her via the steps above). We are happy we did not wait. Ahe now is a very enthusiastic reader - early reading was a turn on to love reading and was not a turn off.

This is very helpful, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look up pre-reading skills. They are important. Don't skip past them. Then look up the basics of teaching reading so you can start in the right way.

Reading and Writing Basics, Reading Rockets
https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-101/reading-and-writing-basics

Awesome, thank you!

[Anonymous]

Lots of ways. Depends on the child. Fun apps, put the closed captioning on with anything she watches, and either get the specific program above or buy fun readers and books, point to the words and help sound them out. And, flash cards.

[Anonymous]

Don't use an app. Your child will learn best via direct interaction with physical books. In fact learning how books work is part of pre-literacy.

Start with mastery if letters and sounds. A great tactile way to work on this is with tactile alphabet cards-- cards with the letters on them in raised material. We had some where the letters were a kind of rough sandpaper material. My kid would play with them-- put them in alphabetical order, sort them by, later use them to spell basic words.

For sounds, games and songs. Look up Jack Hartman and check out the alphabet sound song and the videos on "secret sounds". Teach them to your kid and sing them in the bath, on walks. Play games to sound out the first letter if words on signs. Play rhyming games. Play nonsense word games.

For reading practice: BOB books and workbooks. Make it optional and fun. I used to give DD the bob books to look through in bed after we read to her. Once she could read the cvc words in them, she'd read me a book after I read her one. It was a great confidence builder. Workbooks would be gifts for travel and start if summer. Good writing practice, plus reinforcement of everything I've talked about-- letters, sounds, rhymes, etc. Don't assign the workbook or force it. It's something fun to do when she wants. Boredom killer. It's one tool, not a reading program.

Then read read read. Picture books, early readers, chapter books.

Once K starts, pay attention. If they reach phonics/science of reading, support that. If they don't, you need to get a program like Hooked on Phonics and teach it. Again, default to paper books/workbooks, not the app. Kids will learn from an app but they will learn BETTER from physical materials. Reading is foundational, so do it the optimal way and use apps only when other options aren't working or are unavailable. Schools do lots of tablet based teaching now so she'll also likely get lots of that later. She's young now, try to teach/support reading with as little screen interaction as possible. This will help with engagement and attention too.

[Anonymous]

^ sorry for typos, on phone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't use an app. Your child will learn best via direct interaction with physical books. In fact learning how books work is part of pre-literacy.

Start with mastery if letters and sounds. A great tactile way to work on this is with tactile alphabet cards-- cards with the letters on them in raised material. We had some where the letters were a kind of rough sandpaper material. My kid would play with them-- put them in alphabetical order, sort them by, later use them to spell basic words.

For sounds, games and songs. Look up Jack Hartman and check out the alphabet sound song and the videos on "secret sounds". Teach them to your kid and sing them in the bath, on walks. Play games to sound out the first letter if words on signs. Play rhyming games. Play nonsense word games.

For reading practice: BOB books and workbooks. Make it optional and fun. I used to give DD the bob books to look through in bed after we read to her. Once she could read the cvc words in them, she'd read me a book after I read her one. It was a great confidence builder. Workbooks would be gifts for travel and start if summer. Good writing practice, plus reinforcement of everything I've talked about-- letters, sounds, rhymes, etc. Don't assign the workbook or force it. It's something fun to do when she wants. Boredom killer. It's one tool, not a reading program.

Then read read read. Picture books, early readers, chapter books.

Once K starts, pay attention. If they reach phonics/science of reading, support that. If they don't, you need to get a program like Hooked on Phonics and teach it. Again, default to paper books/workbooks, not the app. Kids will learn from an app but they will learn BETTER from physical materials. Reading is foundational, so do it the optimal way and use apps only when other options aren't working or are unavailable. Schools do lots of tablet based teaching now so she'll also likely get lots of that later. She's young now, try to teach/support reading with as little screen interaction as possible. This will help with engagement and attention too.

This is wonderful! We’ve been working on sounds and she recognizes her letters so we’re on a good track, but this has been a great roadmap (like the other comments ). My gut agrees with you on the apps, but I’ll keep it as back pocket/at least become familiar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi there! My 5 year old will be starting Kindergarten in August. She is very interested in reading… her current daycare/pre-k is not “allowed” to teach reading. (It’s a govt regulated facility which is play based… totally cool). But there’s so much out there. Where do I start? Thank you!

Wow,? You actually know how to teach a baby goat how to read? You should be on the cover of Time and get some sort of Teacher of the Year award.

[Anonymous]

100 easy lessons is good for a kid that will sit still. I used it to teach my older child successfully at 5. My younger child was not the sit-still type so I used the Homer app along with a lot of tactile letter stuff to practice spelling simple words at age 4. In retrospect I probably started the younger one way too early, but oh well, he learned to read.

As others have mentioned, phonemic awareness is very important. Practice saying the individual sounds of the words and asking what is the first sound, what is the last sound, what sound is in the middle. From experience, first sound is easiest, last sound takes more work, middle sound is hardest. Good luck and don't get too disappointed if it doesn't click. Some kids just don't really take to it until around 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 easy lessons is good for a kid that will sit still. I used it to teach my older child successfully at 5. My younger child was not the sit-still type so I used the Homer app along with a lot of tactile letter stuff to practice spelling simple words at age 4. In retrospect I probably started the younger one way too early, but oh well, he learned to read.

As others have mentioned, phonemic awareness is very important. Practice saying the individual sounds of the words and asking what is the first sound, what is the last sound, what sound is in the middle. From experience, first sound is easiest, last sound takes more work, middle sound is hardest. Good luck and don't get too disappointed if it doesn't click. Some kids just don't really take to it until around 6.

Oh, that's a good way to get at it (first, last and middle sounds). Thank you so much! Gotta start somewhere!

[Anonymous]

We love the Hooked on Phonics app. It’s the only time our kid is allowed to use an iPad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First, don’t say kiddo as it’s not a word.

Ha. I clicked on this thread only to say that. Why do people do this? Just use child/daughter/son. So stupid.

In my experience it’s usually used by progressives who are in denial that sex exists and matters and are trying to pretend they don’t know the sex of their child for as long as possible by using ambiguous words and pronouns.

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