When children start kindergarten or perhaps even earlier, the main question on the parents mind is. “Will my child be able to start reading? How does this process work? What can I do to help and understand this process?”
Well, here it goes…
Age 4 Reading
First, at around age four, you can start teaching your child alphabet. Give each letter in an alphabet a week. Do fun staff! Think of things, animals, plants that start with a specific letter. For example, a is for an apple, alligator, anchor, etc. Draw, create arts and crafts, make cookies in different shapes, have fun. Most of children’s learning comes from being able to directly experience things trough touch.
Age 5 Reading
By the age of five, children will know the whole alphabet and be able to recognize the letters. The next step is to learn the sounds that the letters make. Now you should go through the alphabet again, introduce each letter again, and teach the sound that it makes. For example, c says c as in cat. The “ABC’s” by Dr. Suess is the perfect book to go along. It teaches sounding out of letters by using very funny pictures and made up words.
These are the letters:
c, o, a, d, g, m, l, h, t, I, j, k, p, ch, u, b, r, f, n, e, s, sh, th, w, y, v, x, z
Once your child is comfortable with sounding out letters, start reading short vowel words like can, dog, cat, etc. Also, dictate words to your child by sounding them out. Get your child’s favorite books out and read them together. Have your child sound out the short three letter words, while you read him/her the rest.
In kindergarten your child will also be introduced to high frequency words, which are also referred to as tricky words or red words, but more about this in the next post.
Happy Reading!
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December 24, 2008 6:06 pm | 
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