3 Tips to Teach Your child How to Read

By: ChildrenLearningReading.com

Learning to read at a young age is important for the development of the child. It helps them develop a

better understand of their surroundings, allows them 

to gather information from printed materials, and provides them with a wonderful source of entertainment when they

read stories and rhymes. Children develop at different rates

and some children will develop reading skills quicker than other children; however, what's important is that as the

parent, you are keenly aware of your child's maturity and

reading level to provide them with appropriate books and activities to help them improve.

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As parents, you are the most important teacher for your children.You will introduce your child to books  and reading.

Below we have some tips to help you teach your child to read.

Teach Your Child How to Read Tip #1

Teach your child alphabet letters and sounds at the same time.

Studies have shown that children learn best when they are taught the letter names and letter sounds at the same time

In one study,58 preschool children were randomly assigned

to receive instructions in letter names and sounds,letter sound only,or numbers(control group).

The results of this study are consistent with past research results in that it found children receiving letter name and 

sound instruction were most likely to learn the sounds of

letters whose names included cues to their sounds. 

When teaching your child the letter sounds, have them slowly trace the letter, while saying the sound of the letter

at the same time.

For example, if you were teaching your child the letter "A", you would say:

"The letter A makes the /A/ (ah) sound."

Then have your child say the /A/ sound while tracing the letter with his or her index finger.

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Teaching a Child How to Read Tip #2

When teaching your child to read, always emphasize with them that the proper reading order should be from left to

right, and top to bottom. To adults, this may seem so basic

that anyone should know it. However, our children are not born  with the knowledge that printed text should be read 

from left to right and top to bottom, and this is why you'll

sometimes see children reading from right to left instead

because they were never explicitly taught to read from left

to right. When teaching your child how to read, always

emphasize this point with them.

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Teach Your Child How to Read Tip #3

Teach final consonant blends first. Teaching words such "at" 

and "and" can lead your child directly to learning words that

rhyme with these. For example, for "at", you can have:

Lat

Pat

Mat

Cat

Sat

Bat

Spat

Chat

For "and", you can have these rhyming words:

Sand

Band

Land

Hand

Stand

Bland

Brand

Grand

and so on...

You can start teaching blends once your child has learned 

the sounds of some consonants and short vowel sounds.

You don't need to wait until your child has mastered the sounds of all the letters before teaching blends.

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Learning to read is a long process, but it doesn't have to be

a difficult process. Broken down into intuitive and logical 

steps, a child as young as two years old can learn to read,

and older children can accomplish even more.

Click here to for a simple, step-by-step program that can help your child learn to read, and watch a video of a 2 year

old child reading.