If My Children Can Read On Entering School, Won’t They Be Bored?
This is one of the questions that parents keep asking when we talk about teaching young children to read. Here is a good answer I found in the book “Teach your child to read in just 10 minutes a day” by Sidney Ledson, author of “Rising Brighter Children”. “There is little reason for a child to be bored n school simply because he or she can read. In most grad 1 classrooms, much of the day is given over to matters that appeal to all children. The atmosphere is often club-like, and peer relationship and social...
read moreHow to Teach Your Kid to Read: Teaching Letter Names and Sounds
There is a lot of debate which method is better: sight reading or phonics. Another question that many parents have is whether to teach letter sounds or letter names, or both at the same time. I have to say I tried both sight and phonics, and I found that phonics is soo much easier. However, when I started teaching my son letters, I only taught him letter sounds – I did not want to confuse him by teaching him both, and I thought that just knowing the sounds will make it easier for him to start reading on his own. Turns out I could have...
read moreResearch Summary: Combination of Teaching Phonics, Word Sounds, Giving Feedback on Oral Reading Most Effective Way to Teach Reading
Like most parents who are getting actively involved in their children’s education from the start, you are most likely wondering what’s the best way to to help and encourage your child as he or she learns to read. Parents are busy people, so why waste time on methods that are time consuming and mostly ineffective? Below you will find a summary of one of the most comprehensive study on how children learn reading conducted by a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The report, along with more information...
read moreFREE Download: 52 Cool Websites for Learning & Fun Online
If you are one of the parents that is always searching for cool things to do with your kids – here is a list of cool educational websites that you can use with your kids to help them learn and have fun at the same time. These are all high-quality, professionally developed websites and programs. They teach reading, foreign languages, math, science, art. Some of these websites are free, some charge a monthly fee, or there is a one-time payment. Visit them with your kids and have fun! Read more on my I Teach My Child blog....
read moreTeaching Your Kids To Read: Top 5 Tips You Need to Know To Be Successful
Teaching your kids to read requires some basic knowledge of reading methods and some learning supplies: letter shapes, books, magazines, etc. that the child can use to explore the world of reading. However, there are also some other things that are required to make the whole reading program a success. Trinity Montecristo has some practical tips of what is involved. Teach Your Child To Read – 5 Things You Need to Know to Be Successful Most parents these days are very pro-active when it comes to their children’s education. Many...
read moreTeaching Reading: Sounding Out Words Video
I know a lot of parents who are teaching their child the alphabet and letter names, in the hopes that learning the alphabet will make learning to read easy. These parents are often not aware how teaching a child how to sound out words is different than teaching how to spell a word, and that the first method will produce faster and easier results for the child. Here is a good video on how to sound out words when teaching a child to read: Teaching Reading: Phonics Lessons – Sounding Out Words Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Why not add...
read moreTeach Your Child To Read
Why not leave reading instruction to the professionals teaching Grade 1? This is a popular question that parents ask about teaching their child to read, one with several answers. First, teaching a young child (a preschooler) to read is so simple and so much fun that in most cases there just isn’t any justification for delaying the task until grade 1. After all, parents don’t delay teaching their children to speak until grade 1. Yet, learning to speak – which normally takes a year or two – is a much more difficult task...
read moreTips on How to Teach Your Child To Read
These days many parents are taking a greater interest and more active role in their kid’s education. You will seldom encounter a pregnant woman who is not already thinking about what activities to sign up for, what music to play, and what books to read to her yet unborn child. Once the baby finally arrives, many moms begins to engage her new babies in all manner of ways to ensure that his or her motor skills, problem solving skills and cognitive function are fully developed. Obviously, reading is also high on these parents’ list....
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