How to Teach Your Child to Read at Home
TEACHING READING
I have had both positive and negative experiences with teaching my children to read so personally i think like I am able to address the issues many parents have with teaching their kids to read. First I would ike to provide you with a brief run-down on just what worked, and exactly what didn’t, within my “adventure” teaching my children to read:
How to Teach Your Child to Read at Home
The only time we sent any of our youngsters to a normal school was the year our oldest youngster, and just daughter, attended a Christian school for kindergarten. She had a positive experience here, made straight “A’s” and ended up being “valedictorian” of her kindergarten course. Moreover, by enough time she “graduated” she could read at a second grade level. When we started home-schooling her the next year I really only had to do some phonics review and then we jumped directly into using the Bob Jones University Press reading program.
My earliest son started home-schooling two years later on and I decided to make use of the same phonics program which had worked with my daughter. This program is a main-stream Christian phonics system and it is used at many Christian schools but as I would be to find down, it’s definitely not the best system to use in a home-school setting (whether it really is good program to utilize at old-fashioned schools I am not going to speculate on…it clearly worked for my daughter but how well it works for kids who've a different learning design I don’t understand). I struggled for three years trying to make this program work with my son! Therefore for maybe picking the “wrong curriculum” for your child, know that you are not alone if you are kicking yourself! I sincerely wish I had chucked the program and discovered something else but I was still a home-schooler that is“newbie some respects, so I decided to tough it away. My son’s issue wasn’t he couldn’t decode the words (i.e. sound them out) but alternatively, he struggled with fluency that is, of course, the goal. I became lucky to have a home-schooling friend suggest the “Explode the Code” series as my son was entering 3rd grade and just a couple of months of review with this specific program undoubtedly did explode my son’s ability that is reading. He soon was so in love with publications with him everywhere we went that he would bring one.
After my experience that is disappointing with mainstream program it was a no-brainer as to what i'd use to teach reading to my second son. We started in kindergarten with “Explode the Code” and a collection of readers (more on those subsequent). I really couldn’t think how easy it was to instruct my son to read using simply those two resources. Totally painless. For both of us! I was 40 and had been home-schooling for over ten years when my youngest son was born. My small guy is a very child that is unique had a fascination with terms through the time he was an infant. It would just take a post that is whole explain what I mean, but suffice it to express that most it took ended up being exposing him to a few phonics DVD’s and games and by age 4 he had really taught himself to read. Now we know what you’re thinking because if anyone (up until this time) had said their kid taught himself to learn by age four I might have said (to myself, of course), “Yeah, right.” But it is the truth. And considering what a difficult child he was in a number of other ways, I figure it had been maybe God’s way of cutting me a rest!
Now you a brief synopsis of my experience teaching my children to read, I want to explore my recommendations for resources you can use to teach your child to read, as painlessly as possible that I have given.
PRESCHOOL There are lots of products out these full days that will tell you they can get your child reading by enough time these are typically sixth months old (provide or just take). I don’t know about you but We never really needed my children to learn at sixth months. I became more concerned with them resting through the night, keeping them from eating the electrical cords, you know, things like that.
But, we did start introducing my youngest to the Leapfrog program whenever he was young and we do think that is what connected the dots for him that got him reading during the age of four. That’s not saying that the child will read at four utilising the Leapfrog program, because each young child is various. However, they have a solid method of teaching phonics (IMHO) and kids enjoy learning using the program so it's a win/win when I view it.
There are many different tools that Leapfrog uses including DVD’s, various hand-held games, and interactive books. When you yourself have been following my blog for time you might have gotten the proven fact that I fall into the “relaxed home-schooler” category (and you would be right!) My feeling is if I'm able to find a program, resource, or curriculum that my child can use by themselves to teach them whatever they need to know, I am going to go with it. Why make my job much harder? Because of this reason if you have a preschooler I strongly recommend you go through the Leapfrog system. If money is a factor check out Ebay and garage product sales and I wager you'll built a nice library of Leapfrog products at a minimal cost.
In addition, should you feel your child is ready for it you may wish to consider using the first “Explode the Code” workbooks entitled “Get Ready, Get Set, and select the Code.” Many a four-year old could use these publications and truly your five-year old should be able to tackle them as well.
TEACHING READING
I have had both positive and negative experiences with teaching my children to read so personally i think like I am able to address the issues many parents have with teaching their kids to read. First I would ike to provide you with a brief run-down on just what worked, and exactly what didn’t, within my “adventure” teaching my children to read:
How to Teach Your Child to Read at Home
The only time we sent any of our youngsters to a normal school was the year our oldest youngster, and just daughter, attended a Christian school for kindergarten. She had a positive experience here, made straight “A’s” and ended up being “valedictorian” of her kindergarten course. Moreover, by enough time she “graduated” she could read at a second grade level. When we started home-schooling her the next year I really only had to do some phonics review and then we jumped directly into using the Bob Jones University Press reading program.
My earliest son started home-schooling two years later on and I decided to make use of the same phonics program which had worked with my daughter. This program is a main-stream Christian phonics system and it is used at many Christian schools but as I would be to find down, it’s definitely not the best system to use in a home-school setting (whether it really is good program to utilize at old-fashioned schools I am not going to speculate on…it clearly worked for my daughter but how well it works for kids who've a different learning design I don’t understand). I struggled for three years trying to make this program work with my son! Therefore for maybe picking the “wrong curriculum” for your child, know that you are not alone if you are kicking yourself! I sincerely wish I had chucked the program and discovered something else but I was still a home-schooler that is“newbie some respects, so I decided to tough it away. My son’s issue wasn’t he couldn’t decode the words (i.e. sound them out) but alternatively, he struggled with fluency that is, of course, the goal. I became lucky to have a home-schooling friend suggest the “Explode the Code” series as my son was entering 3rd grade and just a couple of months of review with this specific program undoubtedly did explode my son’s ability that is reading. He soon was so in love with publications with him everywhere we went that he would bring one.
After my experience that is disappointing with mainstream program it was a no-brainer as to what i'd use to teach reading to my second son. We started in kindergarten with “Explode the Code” and a collection of readers (more on those subsequent). I really couldn’t think how easy it was to instruct my son to read using simply those two resources. Totally painless. For both of us! I was 40 and had been home-schooling for over ten years when my youngest son was born. My small guy is a very child that is unique had a fascination with terms through the time he was an infant. It would just take a post that is whole explain what I mean, but suffice it to express that most it took ended up being exposing him to a few phonics DVD’s and games and by age 4 he had really taught himself to read. Now we know what you’re thinking because if anyone (up until this time) had said their kid taught himself to learn by age four I might have said (to myself, of course), “Yeah, right.” But it is the truth. And considering what a difficult child he was in a number of other ways, I figure it had been maybe God’s way of cutting me a rest!
Now you a brief synopsis of my experience teaching my children to read, I want to explore my recommendations for resources you can use to teach your child to read, as painlessly as possible that I have given.
PRESCHOOL There are lots of products out these full days that will tell you they can get your child reading by enough time these are typically sixth months old (provide or just take). I don’t know about you but We never really needed my children to learn at sixth months. I became more concerned with them resting through the night, keeping them from eating the electrical cords, you know, things like that.
But, we did start introducing my youngest to the Leapfrog program whenever he was young and we do think that is what connected the dots for him that got him reading during the age of four. That’s not saying that the child will read at four utilising the Leapfrog program, because each young child is various. However, they have a solid method of teaching phonics (IMHO) and kids enjoy learning using the program so it's a win/win when I view it.
There are many different tools that Leapfrog uses including DVD’s, various hand-held games, and interactive books. When you yourself have been following my blog for time you might have gotten the proven fact that I fall into the “relaxed home-schooler” category (and you would be right!) My feeling is if I'm able to find a program, resource, or curriculum that my child can use by themselves to teach them whatever they need to know, I am going to go with it. Why make my job much harder? Because of this reason if you have a preschooler I strongly recommend you go through the Leapfrog system. If money is a factor check out Ebay and garage product sales and I wager you'll built a nice library of Leapfrog products at a minimal cost.
In addition, should you feel your child is ready for it you may wish to consider using the first “Explode the Code” workbooks entitled “Get Ready, Get Set, and select the Code.” Many a four-year old could use these publications and truly your five-year old should be able to tackle them as well.