How To Get Your Child To Read
A lot of us know the importance of getting a child to read early, to establish the basis for learning. But how do we accomplish that?
Below are the steps you can take to get your child to reading. It starts with a newborn , but can be picked up anytime in a person's life. These are the steps I used to tech four of my children to read - and they work!
Step 1.Cultivating Interest in Books.
Your first job is to get the interested in books. You can do that by reading to her, letting her play with child safe books like ones made with soft plastic or cloth. Start the reading as soon as you can - even a few days after birth. If you do not have an appropriate book for a baby yet, pick any books or magazine with bright pictures.
The baby will have hard time to focus at first, but don't lose hope. Just keep showing her bright pictures, pointing to interesting ones, reading and cooing softly as you hod her in your lap, and soon you will have your baby trying to grab the pictures.
As soon as the baby starts to show interest, move on to nursery rhymes, like Mother Goose. Get physical! Hold her hand and gently pat it against yours when reading "Pat a Cake" or put her on your knees and rock up and down when reading "This is the way the ladies ride."
Soon you can give her books to play with. She will chew on them first, so be sure to give child safe books, she can't chew off and choke on. Cloth and soft plastic books are excellent choices. You will soon find your child looking at the pictures and turning pages!
Also see How to read to your child
Step 2. Teach the Alphabets.
Okay, now that you got your child interested in books, it's time to get serious about teaching her to read them.
Start easy with the ABC alphabet song.
After she has mastered the song get her to recognize the capital and small letters of the alphabet by pointing to them in a book.
Keep reading fun story books in between the alphabet books. Pint out
different alphabets in the story book.
Children's learning programs like Sesame Street provide big help towards this phase of learning.
Step 3. The Phonics Game
Now it's time to teach your child the sounds the alphabets make.
This is the trickiest and sometimes the most difficult step for some. First of all a single alphabet can make more than one sound - like the letter "g" in goat and giraffe. Also many alphabets have phonic sounds that are completely different than their names like the letter "h" and "c".
Be sure to point these out to her right from the beginning. Start with words that are of interest to her like her name, names of her friends and favorite foods. Phonetically sound each letter out then have her put then together to make a word. Make it sound fun, like a puzzle. If she gets tired or shows lack of interest, stop right away and do it another time.
Step 4: Form a Single Word to a Chapter Book.
Teach your child to spell small two and three letter words. Put them together to make simple sentences.
Once the child grasps the concept of letters making words, words making sentences and sentences coming together to spin wonderful stories, it will not be surprising if she takes to reading like a runaway train. She might be reading so much that soon you will have to limit her reading time so she makes time for other things like outdoor playing, socializing with friends and other work.
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