Teach Your Child to Read
What is the best way to teach your child to read? There are possibly millions of methods and suggestions out there and probably most of them work. Though children learn in different ways, a little experimentation with various reading games will show you how your child learns best.
Need Help With Reading & Spelling? Your Kids Will Love ClickN READ & ClickN SPELLIt's designed like a game, which makes it so much more fun! SAVE 5% Use Code: CNS
How to teach your child to read.
Proficient reading is the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly and that proficiency comes with years of practice. (Don't tell a frustrated child that it will take years.)
Learning to read actually starts when the child is born (or before if you talk to him/her). It begins with the sound of mother's voice and hearing her speak words. Then as children begin to take an interest in books, reading to them out loud teaches then how to pronounce words.
Another important aspect of teaching reading involves reading comprehension. This is the ability to understand what words mean, particularly in the context of an entire sentence, paragraph, or page. This skill will improve as a child moves through the grades at school, or homeschool if you prefer to direct your child's learning.
Here's a silly game that will help you teach your child to read in a fun way and reinforce sight words. It came from a very informative website, Education.com. So find something for a fishing pole and:
Fish Me A Word
By Alicia Danyali
All your child needs are a few household “tools” and some creativity.
What You Need:
- List of sight words (see below)
- Construction paper
- Piece of string or yarn
- Large wooden spoon (for fishing rod)
- 12 Paper clips
- Scissors
- Glue or tape
- Magnet (a small refrigerator one works great)
Sight words:
| ate | be | black | brown |
| but | came | did | do |
| eat | four | get | good |
What You Do:
- Cut 12 fish shapes out of the construction paper. Using the list of sight words provided, either write one word on each fish, or cut the word out and paste in onto the fish. Let your child decorate the fish with markers or crayons.
- Attach a paper clip to the tip of each fish.
- Tie the yarn or string to the wooden spoon. Tie the magnet to the other end of the string.
- Spread all of the fish out on the floor, or on a table.
- Give your child the fishing rod and let them know it’s time to go fishing! Each time you call out a word, they should look for the word you’ve said, and then try to catch it with their rod.
- Each time she catches the correct fish, ask your child to shout out the letters—spelling the name of the word aloud. This helps with reinforcement.
- Once your child gets the hang of it, make more fish. Here are a few more sight words to try: all, am, are, the, and, to, he, a, I, you, it, of, was, she, said, his, her, that, for, on, but, had, they, now, out, on, that, there, this, too
Happy fishing!
There are many cute little games you can find on the internet or just be creative yourself. Every game you play, every book you read to your child will increase their ability to read. You can teach your child to read.
Comments
Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.