teaching children how to read
Teaching Tip:
Always teach the letter name and letter
sound together. Never separately. Studies have found that there is
little value in teaching preschoolers letter forms or letter sounds
separately. Other studies have found that children receiving letter
name and sound instruction were most likely to learn the sounds
of letters whose names included cues to their sounds.
If you'd like to teach your
child become a
successful reader, and have 5 to 10 minutes to
spare each day
Studies have found that when kids begin school
with a solid
foundation of reading skills, they will continue
to achieve success
in reading and learning new skills. These
children generally enter
school with a good knowledge of the alphabet,
have some conceptual
knowledge of print, and have developed some
level of phonemic
awareness.
On the other hand, there are children who have
not developed these
important foundational skills, and will struggle
through school and
have a difficult time learning new skills. They
will get left
behind by their peers.
More importantly, the reading gap between kids
who just start
school are quite easily overcome with the proper
teachings and some
extra attention. However, as each grade
progresses, the gap in
reading skill between children with and children
without
foundation skills grows by leaps and bounds, and
it becomes
extremely difficult to close this gap after
grade four.
What's very disturbing is that 38% of all grade
4 students in the
US cannot achieve the basic level of reading
skills as defined by
the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
which tracks
students academic performance nationally. Had
these poor skilled
readers had proper reading lessons early on -
once they begin
school or even before they enter school - they
would not be poor
achievers when it comes to reading.
If this has you concerned for your child's
development and education,
there's no need to worry. It's a rather simple
process to teach
kids to read. In fact, language learning begins
right at birth, and
children as young as two or three years old can
learn to read fluently.
Children who learn to read at a young age will
go on to excel at
reading and other academic endeavors. It is a
known fact that the
more you read, the more you know, and the
smarter you become - this
is especially true for young children in the
early stages and
formative years of life.
Most people know or have heard of phonics, but
not everyone knows
what phonemic awareness (PA) is, and PA is one
of the most
important skills to develop in the process of
learning to read. So
what is phonemic awareness (PA)?
Phonemic Awareness is defined as the ability to
identify, hear, and
work with the smallest units of sound known as
phonemes. PA
deals with phonemes and manipulating the
individual sounds of words
- such as /c/, /a/, and /t/ are the individual
sounds that make up
to form the word "cat". (slashes
denote the sound of the letter.)
Studies have found that phonemic awareness is
the best predictor of
reading success in young children. Research has
also found that
children with a high level of phonemic awareness
progress with high
reading and spelling achievements.
So how do you help a young child develop
phonemic awareness? One of
the best ways is through blending.
Last time, we talked about phonemic awareness.
In this part, we're
going to discuss a bit on how you can help your
child develop
phonemic awareness. Just to recap, Phonemic
Awareness is defined as
the ability to identify, hear, and work with the
smallest units of
sound known as phonemes.
One of the best ways to help your child develop
phonemic awareness
is through practicing "blending".
Being able to blend and
segment words helps children to read and spell.
According to the
National Reading Panel, blending helps children
develop
reading skills where printed letters are turned
into sounds which
combine to form words.
Start blending practice with some ear training
with your
child. Simply take words from your everyday
speaking to your child
and include blending sounds into your sentences.
For example,
if you wanted to ask your child to drink his
milk, you could say:
"Joe, d-r-i-n-k your mmmiillllk." The
words drink and milk are sounded
out slow and "stretchy". The
level of sound separation can be
set by you to increase or lower the difficulty.
Thus, if Joe has a
tough time figuring out that d-r-i-n-k means
drink, you can lower
the difficulty by blending the word as dr-ink
instead.
Below are some sample words which you can use to
play blending
sounds activities with your child.
J-u-m-p J-ump
Juuuuummmmp
R-u-n R-un Rrrrruuuuunnn
S-i-t S-it Sssssit
S-t-a-n-d St-and
Ssssstaaaannnd
M-i-l-k M-ilk
Mmmmmillllk
S-t-o-p St-op
Ssssstooooop
Our Children Learning Reading Program is designed
to help you
easily teach your child to develop exceptional
reading skills. It
will allow you to help your child develop
phonemic awareness and
reading fluency through the step-by-step lessons
contained in our
program. Simple, effective, and the results you
will see are real.
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.
Here's another great tip on teaching your child
to read.
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
For "and", you can have these rhyming
words:
Sand
Band
Land
Hand
Stand
Bland
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.
The lessons in our Children Learning Reading
Program starts
teaching your child blends almost right away,
using the letter
knowledge that they've learned. Our program is a
truly logical and
sequential method of teaching your child to
read, that produces
fantastic results.
What's the best way to teach a child to read?
This is a hotly
debated topic - especially when the debate revolves
around phonics
and phonemic awareness vs. whole language method
of learning to
read.
I can tell you decisively right now that phonics
and phonemic
awareness is a far better method for teaching
children to read
than the whole language method. Thousands of
studies have proven
this fact, and even the National Reading Panel
(NRP) has made a
statement regarding this, where they stated:
--------------------------------------------
Teaching children to manipulate phonemes in
words was highly
effective under a variety of teaching conditions
with a variety of
learners across a range of grade and age levels
and that teaching
phonemic awareness to children significantly
improves their reading
more than instruction that lacks any attention
to Phonemic
Awareness.
--------------------------------------------
There are literally thousands of studies done on
this topic. In
fact, relating to the statement made by NRP,
they reviewed over
1,960 studies before making the above statement.
There can be no
doubt that phonics and phonemic awareness based
systems of teaching
are the most effective.
The Children Learning Reading program is an
extremely effective
program designed to help your child develop
exceptional reading
skills through developing phonemic awareness
skills. You will be
delighted with the results after using our
program.
As parents, you're the most important first step
in your children's
journey into the wonderful world of reading. It
is up to you to
create the most supportive environment that
turns your child on to
reading.
With the help of parents, children can learn how
to read. Make
reading into a family activity, and spend time
playing words games
and reading story books. This will not only help
your child learn
to read, but it'll also help them build a rich
vocabulary, teach
them language patterns, and help them fall in
love with books and
reading.
Talk to your child - before a child can learn to
read, he or she
must first learn to speak. Talk to your child
about everything and
anything - whatever interests them. Tell them
stories, ask your
child lots of questions, play rhyme games, and
sing songs with them.
Read to your child consistently everyday - we're
all creatures of
habit, and enjoy having a daily routine. Set
time aside each day to
read to your child. Read to your child every
night. Make this their
"cool down" period before they go to
sleep. This not only helps
your child develop an interest in books and
reading, it also help
the parent bond with the child, and develop a
healthy relationship.
Help your child to read with a wide variety of
books and keep
reading fun - There is no shortage of children
books, and you
should always have a wide variety of children
books, stories, and
rhymes available. Reading is a lot of fun, for
both parents and
children. Read to your child using drama and
excitement, and use
different voices. Give your child the option of
choosing what book
they want you to read, instead of picking the
book you want to read
to your child.
Studies have found that when kids begin school with a solid
foundation of reading skills, they will continue to achieve success
in reading and learning new skills. These children generally enter
school with a good knowledge of the alphabet, have some conceptual
knowledge of print, and have developed some level of phonemic
awareness.
On the other hand, there are children who have not developed these
important foundational skills, and will struggle through school and
have a difficult time learning new skills. They will get left
behind by their peers.
More importantly, the reading gap between kids who just start
school are quite easily overcome with the proper teachings and some
extra attention. However, as each grade progresses, the gap in
reading skill between children with and children without
foundation skills grows by leaps and bounds, and it becomes
extremely difficult to close this gap after grade four.
What's very disturbing is that 38% of all grade 4 students in the
US cannot achieve the basic level of reading skills as defined by
the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which tracks
students academic performance nationally. Had these poor skilled
readers had proper reading lessons early on - once they begin
school or even before they enter school - they would not be poor
achievers when it comes to reading.
If this has you concerned for your child's development and education,
there's no need to worry. It's a rather simple process to teach
kids to read. In fact, language learning begins right at birth, and
children as young as two or three years old can learn to read fluently.
Children who learn to read at a young age will go on to excel at
reading and other academic endeavors. It is a known fact that the
more you read, the more you know, and the smarter you become - this
is especially true for young children in the early stages and
formative years of life.
Most people know or have heard of phonics, but not everyone knows
what phonemic awareness (PA) is, and PA is one of the most
important skills to develop in the process of learning to read. So
what is phonemic awareness (PA)?
Phonemic Awareness is defined as the ability to identify, hear, and
work with the smallest units of sound known as phonemes. PA
deals with phonemes and manipulating the individual sounds of words
- such as /c/, /a/, and /t/ are the individual sounds that make up
to form the word "cat". (slashes denote the sound of the letter.)
Studies have found that phonemic awareness is the best predictor of
reading success in young children. Research has also found that
children with a high level of phonemic awareness progress with high
reading and spelling achievements.
So how do you help a young child develop phonemic awareness? One of
the best ways is through blending.
Last time, we talked about phonemic awareness. In this part, we're
going to discuss a bit on how you can help your child develop
phonemic awareness. Just to recap, Phonemic Awareness is defined as
the ability to identify, hear, and work with the smallest units of
sound known as phonemes.
One of the best ways to help your child develop phonemic awareness
is through practicing "blending". Being able to blend and
segment words helps children to read and spell. According to the
National Reading Panel, blending helps children develop
reading skills where printed letters are turned into sounds which
combine to form words.
Start blending practice with some ear training with your
child. Simply take words from your everyday speaking to your child
and include blending sounds into your sentences. For example,
if you wanted to ask your child to drink his milk, you could say:
"Joe, d-r-i-n-k your mmmiillllk." The words drink and milk are sounded
out slow and "stretchy". The level of sound separation can be
set by you to increase or lower the difficulty. Thus, if Joe has a
tough time figuring out that d-r-i-n-k means drink, you can lower
the difficulty by blending the word as dr-ink instead.
Below are some sample words which you can use to play blending
sounds activities with your child.
J-u-m-p J-ump Juuuuummmmp
R-u-n R-un Rrrrruuuuunnn
S-i-t S-it Sssssit
S-t-a-n-d St-and Ssssstaaaannnd
M-i-l-k M-ilk Mmmmmillllk
S-t-o-p St-op Ssssstooooop
Our Children Learning Reading Program is designed to help you
easily teach your child to develop exceptional reading skills. It
will allow you to help your child develop phonemic awareness and
reading fluency through the step-by-step lessons contained in our
program. Simple, effective, and the results you will see are real.
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.
Here's another great tip on teaching your child to read.
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
For "and", you can have these rhyming words:
Sand
Band
Land
Hand
Stand
Bland
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.
The lessons in our Children Learning Reading Program starts
teaching your child blends almost right away, using the letter
knowledge that they've learned. Our program is a truly logical and
sequential method of teaching your child to read, that produces
fantastic results.
What's the best way to teach a child to read? This is a hotly
debated topic - especially when the debate revolves around phonics
and phonemic awareness vs. whole language method of learning to
read.
I can tell you decisively right now that phonics and phonemic
awareness is a far better method for teaching children to read
than the whole language method. Thousands of studies have proven
this fact, and even the National Reading Panel (NRP) has made a
statement regarding this, where they stated:
--------------------------------------------
Teaching children to manipulate phonemes in words was highly
effective under a variety of teaching conditions with a variety of
learners across a range of grade and age levels and that teaching
phonemic awareness to children significantly improves their reading
more than instruction that lacks any attention to Phonemic
Awareness.
--------------------------------------------
There are literally thousands of studies done on this topic. In
fact, relating to the statement made by NRP, they reviewed over
1,960 studies before making the above statement. There can be no
doubt that phonics and phonemic awareness based systems of teaching
are the most effective.
The Children Learning Reading program is an extremely effective
program designed to help your child develop exceptional reading
skills through developing phonemic awareness skills. You will be
delighted with the results after using our program.
As parents, you're the most important first step in your children's
journey into the wonderful world of reading. It is up to you to
create the most supportive environment that turns your child on to
reading.
With the help of parents, children can learn how to read. Make
reading into a family activity, and spend time playing words games
and reading story books. This will not only help your child learn
to read, but it'll also help them build a rich vocabulary, teach
them language patterns, and help them fall in love with books and
reading.
Talk to your child - before a child can learn to read, he or she
must first learn to speak. Talk to your child about everything and
anything - whatever interests them. Tell them stories, ask your
child lots of questions, play rhyme games, and sing songs with them.
Read to your child consistently everyday - we're all creatures of
habit, and enjoy having a daily routine. Set time aside each day to
read to your child. Read to your child every night. Make this their
"cool down" period before they go to sleep. This not only helps
your child develop an interest in books and reading, it also help
the parent bond with the child, and develop a healthy relationship.
Help your child to read with a wide variety of books and keep
reading fun - There is no shortage of children books, and you
should always have a wide variety of children books, stories, and
rhymes available. Reading is a lot of fun, for both parents and
children. Read to your child using drama and excitement, and use
different voices. Give your child the option of choosing what book
they want you to read, instead of picking the book you want to read
to your child.
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