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[quote=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.[/quote]

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