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How do you teach your DC to read?
DD is starting to show interesting in reading. I am at a loss on how to do this.
I try to sound out words and what not, but am second-guessing myself.
Should I get hooked on phonics?
Audrey Elizabeth 11-11-06
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Re: How do you teach your DC to read?
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honestly, I would just read the books a little slower...ones with fewer words, like the Biscuit books...and point to each word as I went along. Then they would want to echo me...so I'd read the sentence pointing to words..then they would read the sentence pointing to words and I would say "wow! Did you read that!"
Eventually they would "memorize" some of the high frequency words. And they could read short books to me. At that point when they'd get stuck on a word, we'd talk about the sounds and rules. "it has one of those silent e's at the end, so you know that A says its own name and the e is silent."
We go over letter sounds some. DD asks me how to spell a lot of words, and I usually give her the sound and make her tell me the letter.
Other than that, I'm waiting for her to learn at school.
Charlotte Ella 07.16.10
Emmeline Grace 03.27.13
I have the same problem. First, I'm just not that good at explaining it to her. Math, I could handle. We got the BOB books, and I've tried, but we kind of gave up over summer. Second, she gets so frustrated anytime I try to teach her anything. Yet she is frustrated that she wants to learn to read, but it's not happening.
Only one week until school starts, thankfully! I think she will pick it up quickly once she has someone who knows wth they're doing teaching her. LOL!
My DD is a big reader, but I don't think I did much to get her started. One day she came to me sounded out a word on her own, so we sat down to read a book and she blew me away with how much she knew. We obviously worked on things like the alphabet and letter sounds, but it wasn't something we did all the time. I think she learned more about letter sounds in preschool, but I know they didn't teach her to read. (Some of the kids in her class didn't know the alphabet when the year started). I think it is something she more or less picked up on her own.
I also think that TV shows like Word World and Super Why helped her.
ETA: When she first started reading, she would wiggle all around, make up words, take for-ever to read a word when we knew she knew it, etc. It made us nuts. I think we started reading in early May and she is already sitting (mostly) still and flying through the level 1 readers. It is amazing how fast they progress!
There are two big important parts of reading.
For actual decoding, you want to make sure all of her pre-reading skills are developing first - rhyming (recognizing and generating), matching words by initial/final sounds, blending sounds - if you say /k/ /a/ /t/, can she put them together and say "cat" and if you say "cat" can she say, /k/ /a/ /t/, segmenting words/clapping out and counting syllables in words - given a word notebook, if you say "say it without "note" can she say "book" - google phonological skills. Also, she needs to know what sounds each letter makes - and simple sound combinations (sh, ch, th, ph, ck, etc)
Secondly, using context, story telling, predicting/making inferences are equally as important. So you WANT her to use pictures and story patterning to read. You don't want to teach reading based solely on phonics - you will miss a HUGE part of reading. So have her tell stories based on pictures. Or when you are reading, let her complete a sentence by looking at the word then figuring out by the picture what that word must be. ex: Clifford is big and _____ . Books that repeat sentences/phrases are great - where she can get the pattern and then start completing the sentences on her own by using context and seeing the same words used over and over.
I don't think you need HOP.
Most importantly, keep reading to her and showing her print around her environment.
This helped her a ton with her letter recognition and sounds, for sure. Even C is catching on!
Us too!
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