Teach Your Child to Read Before Kindergarten
I see
Try this powerful data and one of those videos; You know what I want. That “and if you order now, not only will you get our video for $29.99, but we’ll throw in this fantasy-shmancy-price-over-$100.00 coloring-book for free.”
I’m waiting
Well, I admit; I was one of those pregnant moms who read a bunch of books in my womb that had titles like “How to Stimulate a Really Bright Child” and “How to Stimulate Your Baby’s Brain by Hanging Loud-Colored Fuzzy Things Over the Crib and Playing the Sesame Street Theme Song Back But there were diamonds in coal-mine too.
And I admit that I’m one of those pregnant moms who spent about 10% of my time living the day dream of how my kid would be in class valedictorian of his graduation at the age of two, go to medical school and become the real life Doogie Howser at the ripe old age of thirteen. Of course my twelve year old daughter is now in her room working on her 8th grade homework and the only doctor I see this week is my gynecologist.
Expectations
Now, you’re probably thinking that you’ve read this article and then your next three-year-old will be on Believe It or Not (or maybe Oprah’s personal preference), reading all Term with highly advanced names of neurological diseases that you don’t even know how to pronounce yet. If so, stop reading here.
On the other hand, if you think it would be really nice if your chatty and flowing bundle of joy fell in love with early books and maybe read you a bedtime story or two in a few years; then they keep reading. Especially if you are on a budget and want to know how it can be done for next to nothing in financial terms.
Please note that this author respects all children to learn at different paces. There are therefore no hard and fast reminders of the age set forth in the following article; as a general process which is supposed to have spread somewhere from 0-5 centuries.
Basic skills
The most important, but also the most necessary, skill needed for this job is the ability to praise your child’s efforts. Sing, laugh, clap, or do a nice dance if that’s your thing, but make sure he knows how much you like what he’s doing.
Surround Sound
Sounds like they are everywhere. And many of them seem to burst forth from a human mouth. Before your baby is born, your voice will be a familiar sound, and he will answer and be comforted. (Unless, of course, you spend your entire pregnancy yelling and screaming, in which case your baby would just sleep awake at night, wishing he knew how to count so he could estimate how many days he had before he could go out).
Be multi-lingual
From the beginning, it is important to talk to the baby very often. Baby talk and babbling are nice and sweet, but don’t let that be the only language your baby hears from you. He will hear and learn from the sound of your voice (as well as your volume) when you talk to people, learning how you communicate with other people really tall, who keep a giant face leaning so close to theirs as if deep down saying “Coochy-coochy-coo, do you let the baby do the poo-poo tinky?”
It is a good habit of entering into small conversation for miscellaneous things which are done in the day and in sound, and in conversation for those which often happen in the world; for example, making her a bottle, she puts on a diaper change. Show yourself when you use the word mom, and when you say her name. Hold up the diaper and explain what you are doing with it. When you bottle it, if he is old enough to sit in a high chair and watch, go through the motions slowly, taking time to repeat the words in the process. Keywords should always be tangible. If the sentence is “Mommy is putting on the shoes now.” Focus on the words mom and shoes, which she can see and feel. “Put” is far too abstract at this time.
When your baby is making lip sounds and could one day translate them into real words, imagine doing them now. If you give him a bottle and he looks at you and says “gah goo mmm pah bah ooh”, respond with something like “Yes! Right! This is the same bottle of Barney you had yesterday before lunch!” The point is to help the baby understand that the same words that you use in hearing are available to him as well.
On the illusionists
Expect to get a little fluff from people now and then. I know that I m. I was told by many that I was “neurotic” and a “waste of time.” And if I had given you a bill for every day I heard “Don’t you know she’s just a baby?” It was as if my mind had fallen out.
I can hardly explain myself well enough, when a friend (who read me all those books, and pitied all my babies chattering) was visiting with her free books to her. Many parents choose the traditional “dream story” (more than one is better), but that doesn’t have to be a time to choose and certainly can have more than one story time of the day. Run your fingers over the words you’re reading, helping you get closer to revealing which pages are associated with the words coming out of your mouth. When he asks you to read the same book every night, don’t give up; he enjoys the repetition itself. A good way to approach this is to pick one book and choose one book.
Read to your baby all the time. I don’t mean housework (it wouldn’t be nice) to read The Cat in the Hat from nine to five, I mean it’s part of your reading experience during the day. If you are at an grocery, display his words on the cereal box, hay bag, formula can, sales signs , and if you run into anything else.
You see your baby as a great lesson for you. Do this by taking time each day to read. It can be a book, newspaper, paper from recipe box, mail… anything at all.
It’s not “A,” it’s “Aah”
If your child is far enough along to see the evil on the page, or the frog, or any of the other pictures found in children’s books that you find chewing, it is long enough. the beginning of learning phonics.
Not to be confused with the alphabet and its song about learning the ABCs, phonics is about letter sounds and letter combinations. Flashcards have become your new tool. You don’t need to go out and buy the most expensive ones you see in the educational or second-hand section. Most of them, they not only have an excess of money, but also tend to have a lot of distracting images on them. If a child can show a bad word by remembering a word with a picture, the same child can remember only standing sounds with a picture. There is no need to highlight the “a” sound found at the beginning of the apple.
Simply pick up a bunch of flat white cards and draw letters on them in style with buttons or brackets. Use the first part with lowercase letters and different bright colors. If your child is a little older, color in the letters as you talk about all the words that start with that sound. Turn it into a game.
Teach the sounds in the same way you taught the evil and the frog. Show him the letter and say the sound. Not the name of the letter, but the sound.
Introduce only a few sounds at a time, and start with a short form of vowels. Example: cat, hit, pet, cot, rut. After short vowels, it is time to move on to consonants. Avoid confusion by introducing distinct sounds and appearances of each season. For example, they don’t use the same reading to spell “m” and “n” or “b” and “d”. But introduce “m” and “b.”
The new sights and sounds you introduce each week will be based on your individual assessment of your child. As a general rule, younger children are easily introduced to hard c (cat), hard g (go), m, l, b, f, t, and n.
It can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to actually capture each statue; do not rush The foundation depends on this period. If your child can use a crayon with some kind of control, take some blank paper and create your own workshops. This is nothing more than using a pencil to draw the rows and rows of sounds you are working on this week. Set her up with crayons or pens, and show her to trace the letters, remembering to say each sound every time she makes one. Look to honor the works.
It is also useful to create another series of cards with the same letters card game memory. Turn all the cards upside down and alternately flipping them in pairs at a time looking for pairs. Say the sound of each letter when the card is flipped over. If the cards do not match, they must be returned to their original face down position. If they made a pair, they go to the one who discovered, and when all the cards are gone, the one with the most pairs wins.
When a child is armed with an arsenal of sounds and can quickly identify them, begin introducing simple words that use core sounds. For example, take a list of white papers with beautifully colored letters and create the word cat. At first, keep the letters spread out and go slowly to each note. Then move the letters closer together and collect the level. This continues as long as the letters are right next to each other. then do it again with another word.
Try to stop yourself from showing the child what the word is. It will be worth it when you see the little face light up in recognition that the sounds it can make by sight match the word “guilty”. And don’t be mistaken, knowledge will come.
Here is the hard part. When you cook dinner, your child will create words with the index card. When you are in the shower, he wants to show you the word that he found in the book “everything by itself”. He will read books that he can repeat over and over again. This is a good time to break down and pat yourself (along with anyone else who has worked hard) on the back. Take a breath and enjoy the melodic sounds of Dr. Seuss two hundred times, and then go back to teaching.
You are over the hump. The most important part here seems to be the long vowels. For example: here, mate, tote, bite, pipe. This is the time to introduce “vowel” words and nouns. Then the lake happens at this moment: if there is an “e” at the end, the first vowel says its name. Do this at least three times before any lesson, even if your child seems to have caught on.
Then, in the sounds, combinations are often found at the beginning and end of words, such as sh, ch, th. Conjunctions such as nt (ant), st (step, pest), nd (and), rt (wagon), and the like will work.
They are now progressing to the middle of simple word combinations such as ee (feet), oo (root), etc. Then there are a few more complex ones like ai (rain), ea (I fear), oi (cook) etc.
Here, you might want to start talking about the context of the speech, or how it fits into the sentence. A good introduction to the concept is that joint in comparison of fear and bearing. If this is too complicated at the time, push it to the backburner and go back to what is comfortable. They all fall together.
To be either a parent or not a parent
Do not stress yourself or your child out. Learning to read should be a fun and rewarding experience.
Highlight how proud of a child you are, how impressed you are with reading, how much you enjoy reading, and how much you love it. Especially how much you love, however, this is more than a lesson.
It is a better ending than Dimitri’s History
Well, what can I say, I’m a mother like everyone else – I like to brag about my kid. So to end this story from Kindergarten, it makes the heart swell and the eyes tear.
My daughter was recently born in December and with a lot of meaning (but completely out of touch with life and the baby) people suggested that I keep her year so young he does not want to enter. I didn’t take his (often back and forth) advice and wrote to him anyway. Then they told me I was sorry when she “goes back and repeats the year”. I dismissed those vain fears, trusting in the child’s abilities and fundamentals.
The teacher at the first year parent conference informed me what a “wonderful act” it was to have my daughter in her class. When I need an “extra moment” to grade papers or prepare for the next project, I will ask my daughter to read a story to the class. This not only strengthened my daughter’s confidence in her own reading abilities, but also encouraged other kids to want to learn. After all, they reasoned, if we can learn to read these things, so can I!
Ask me now if I would break the fast. Ask me if those countless hours of my work and film were worth creating. Ask me if I’ll sit through Green Eggs and Hook another million times. The answer is: Yes, it is, and it is!
