|
How To Help A Child Learn To Read
By Leeanne Utiger
How to help a child learn to read is a very important part and contribution to any a child in their early years. Growing up and being able to know how to read as a child is a much needed resource, both for their schooling years and then onwards into their adult years.
We will begin with how a parents or parents can help a child or their children, if they have more than one child, learn to read. It is suggested that from before a child can even walk, you read to the child or children on a daily basis. Even you don't think they can understand you. They are in fact hearing the words, and one day further down the track the chid or children will in fact learn to recognise the words that you have in fact read to them many times before. When you help a child learn to read, you are also therefore teaching a child understanding of words and things about life and situations, places and other things, such as animals and people.
To be able to help a child learn to read, take some time out each night with the child. Place yourself somewhere quiet, maybe even use prior to bedtime in the room of where the child sleeps to read to them. This is also teaching the child not only to read, but that been read to is a wind-down to the day before it is time to sleep. This is in fact a very good routine to get into regarding a healthy child as well. Later on when the child is older, and it is possible for the child to read for and to themselves, they will feel comfortable doing so at such a time of day.
However, we will get back to being able to help a child learn to read at an earlier age than that. Some good ideas when you read to a child I will include for you. If you are sitting in your lounge area, make sure you have all distractions turned off, or in the very least volumes of televisions and the likes turned down to a low minimum. When you help a child learn to read, distraction is not something you want interfering with this time. A childs attention span can be short, and with interfering distractions can make your help with a child in learning how to read near impossible. Once you are sure you have a quiet area, or your own little quiet space within a room, place the child on your knee. Not only will this make it easier for you to help the child learn to read, but it will also make the child feel like this is a special time. Therefore this will be an encouragement for the child to actually let you help them learn to read.
When you help the child learn to read, speak slowly, read to the child in a tone and speed they will hear you clearly and relate to. Point to the pictures in the story book you are helping the child learn to read from, this will in fact help relate a word to a subject or item.
Example of how you can help a child learn to read with the use of pictures: On reading about a horse (for example) point to the picture of the horse that the book contains, and tell the child that the picture is in fact a horse. As the child gets older, you can point to the word 'horse' and then to the picture of the horse. Moving on to the child being slightly older yet again, you can further help this same child learn to read at an extended pace, by simply pointing to the word 'horse' after you have read it out, or even while reading it out, and then ask the child you are trying to help read, to point themselves to the picture of the horse. This will in fact let you know if the child has understood what the word you have read to them means, if the child can correlate the word to thing (picture in this case).
On reading to a new entrant school age child, it is suggested to have the child point to each word as either you read to them while you help them learn to read, or the child her/himself points to the words. This is called a visual help towards the child being able to learn to read. The child will before long be able to recognise the word to the sound the word makes. This will all be made possible if you use the right techniques when you help a child learn to read.
As the child gets older, when you read to her/him, sound the words out slowly. Begin with the beginning of the word and make that sound of those letters, and then follow with the rest of the word, sounding out those letters, before finally combining both pieces of the word spoken into one. This will in fact help a child learn to read words, therefore read in general very effectively. This is turn, ultimately assists the child at a later date with such knowledgeable lessons as spelling.
Ask the child what you have read to them, whether they can tell you pieces of the story, what happened in it for example. When you help a child learn to read, there are many ways and actions you can get them involved in to determine how successful you are actually being when you have opted to help a child learn to read.
Always have plenty of books around your house for the child to pick u and look at at any given time of the day. If a child wants you to read to them, do not turn them away. If you are busy, settle the child down to first look at the pictures and then make a point of tending to the child once you have finished doing what you were doing, and the once more do what you can to help the child learn to read.
A child is a treasure in this world, and a child most definitely deserves someone taking the time out to help them learn to read. Books are explorative and full of information needed to be happy and thrive in todays society. Take the time to help a child learn to read, even if you are not a parent. It will be very satisfying to know you have in fact given something to a little one, the help you give to a child to learn to read is truly a rewarding activity and venture.
See Also:
Provide Your Baby the Benefit of Studying and Writing Early in Life
Copyright © 2005-2006 HowToSite.Net and Accelerated Software Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Any proprietary content contained in this document may not be copied in part or full without express written permission from the publisher.
Contact Us | Terms of Use
|
