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Did you ever mange to teach your toddler or your child to read at home?
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When it comes to the reading strategies, does phonics method of reading really produces better result than sight word method?
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Last edited by Miss Blue; 12-27-2014 at 05:30 PM..
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I didn't look at the link, but I taught all three of my children to read at home. My oldest child did not go to school until high school, and the younger two are still homeschooled. They're all good readers, so clearly it can be done!
I am in favor of reading a lot to children (at least one hour per day) and waiting for signs of readiness, such as interest in letters and ability to form rhymes. I'm not big on trying to teach toddlers. Unless a child is REALLY interested, I'd wait until at least four.
You can start at two and take two years teaching the child the same reading skills that a four-year-old picks up in a month.
I believe in teaching phonics AND sight reading. Written English is unfortunately only a partially phonetic system. It's important to be able to sound out words using phonics, but there are many words that can't be sounded out and must be learned by rote. I found it easiest to teach my children simple phonics with a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, while simultaneously using homemade flash cards for high-frequency sight words like "the," "one," and so on.
I don't know what you are selling but my sisters and I learned the alphabet before we went to school. Back in the forties, before it was common for kids to go to preschool, kids like us began our education at home. Every night after supper at the time each of us were toddlers we would climb onto my dad's lap while he read the evening paper. He would point out the letters in the paper and say them aloud.
We would learn the letters by repeating them after him. We got to recognizing letters that way. I could say my ABC's before kindergarten. Putting the letters together to make words after that was a breeze.
I never did. I read to them and we did pre-k activities, but I never instructed or made it a point to encourage early reading. Both my older girls learned to read in Kinder, and have been reading well above grade level for some time. They excel at language arts.
Actually, children who are immersed in a literate environment where the adults around them read and where books are readily available will learn to read on their own. They may learn early or they may learn later, but they usually do learn.
The following is from a study of self-taught children at the Sudbury school.
I didn't look at the link, but I taught all three of my children to read at home. My oldest child did not go to school until high school, and the younger two are still homeschooled. They're all good readers, so clearly it can be done!
I am in favor of reading a lot to children (at least one hour per day) and waiting for signs of readiness, such as interest in letters and ability to form rhymes. I'm not big on trying to teach toddlers. Unless a child is REALLY interested, I'd wait until at least four.
You can start at two and take two years teaching the child the same reading skills that a four-year-old picks up in a month.
I believe in teaching phonics AND sight reading. Written English is unfortunately only a partially phonetic system. It's important to be able to sound out words using phonics, but there are many words that can't be sounded out and must be learned by rote. I found it easiest to teach my children simple phonics with a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, while simultaneously using homemade flash cards for high-frequency sight words like "the," "one," and so on.
I have seen this happen first hand. Compare learning to read with other developmentally dependent skills, such as riding a bicycle independently (without training wheels). You can start teaching bike riding at age two and practice hours and hours a day, day after day after day and eventually the child will learn or you can wait until the child is older, and more developmentally ready, and after a fairly brief practice the child will learn the skill.
Reading to babies, toddlers and pre-school age children is always the first step.
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