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Teaching Reading - 3 Simple Ways To Teach Your Child To Read
We all know that learning to read is an important part of growing up for a child. Learning to read is also essential to future success both in school and in life. Older children and adults who struggle with reading will struggle in the future in terms of both professional prospects as well as personal life. Reading is quite simply a part of every day modern life. While we all know that helping our children learn to read is important, many parents struggle with what they can do as non-educators to teach children to read. There are three simple ways you can teach your child to read - expose them to the world of literacy, read to them, and give them the tools they need to become literate.
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Expose Your Child To The World Of Literacy
It is important to expose children to the world of literacy from a very young age. This means demonstrating on a daily basis how important reading is by sharing the various ways the written word is a part of daily modern life from street signs to food labels to printed literature. It is also important to teach young children how print works, such as the fact we read from left to right and top to bottom. Readers know this is the way literature works but non-readers need to be taught. You should also make sure your child has reading material available that is suitable and age appropriate. You can either provide your child with a library of their own or if money is tight then make sure they have a library card and visit regularly. Exposing your child to the world of literacy from a young age is an important part of teaching reading. Teaching aides
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Read To Your Child
Reading to your child is the most important part of helping your child become a reader. Teaching reading involves teaching children to love reading. The more fun your child has with books from an early age then the more interested they will be when they reach school age in becoming a reader. Reading to your child also improves your child's emergent literacy skills including vocabulary, knowledge, and print awareness such as how a book works. Reading to your child on a regular basis gives your pre-reader a jumpstart in learning to read books and continuing to read to your child even after they learn to read helps improve their vocabulary and reading skills. Share your favorite teaching tools & methods
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Give Your Child The Tools To Become Literate
Giving your child the tools they need to become literate is also important. Some parents handicap their children's efforts to learn to read by not helping them master the alphabet and beginning letter sounds before school begins. Other parents discourage learning to read by not providing age-appropriate reading material. If there are no books or magazines in the house to read then how can a child learn to read? Still other parents do not speak properly to their children, perhaps using baby talk, to encourage the development of vocabulary and grammar skills. You can be involved in helping your child learn to read by giving your child the tools they need to become literate. Teaching Reading - 3 Simple Ways To Teach Your Child To Read
If you follow these three simple steps you can teach your child to read. Teaching reading is as simple as exposing them to the world of literacy, reading to them, and giving them the tools they need to become literate. Share your favorite tips for teaching your child to read
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- Teddi14 Teddi14 Jun 10, 2009 @ 9:02 pm
- My son turned 7 in April & he is reading fluently at a 3rd grade level. Now I am a special education teacher for middle school and I teach reading. I think the best tip I have is when ever I have read aloud to him--which by the way was not every day by any means, but it read purposefully. By that I mean I read & showed him how to follow along by pointing to each word as I read it. When he is in kindergarten I would have him read with me by pausing on the site words & words I knew he would know & point to it & have him read it. I also showed him how to sound words out by covering the letters he was not sounding yet & explaining how every letter makes a sound (unless silent). As he got older (1st gr.) I modeled chunking/grouping words together so he would read more fluently. I have lots of books for him to read too. Quality > Quantity He astounds me with his vocabulary. I speak to him as I would an adult & if he does not know the word I tell him what "easy" word it replaces. :-)
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- RedBlue24 RedBlue24 Aug 16, 2008 @ 9:46 pm
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- ElizabethJeanAllen ElizabethJeanAllen Jul 25, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
- Most people assume that high school students can read. Most can, but... I teach reading through science every day.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Apr 17, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
- Fancy Nancy loves inspired Teachers that are as creative as you. I can hardly wait to read the rest of your lenses.
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