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How To Teach Reading
By Leeanne Utiger
This document is all about how to teach reading to another person. You may want to learn how to teach reading to a child, or even to an adult who never learned how to read as a child themselves.
Reading is an important part of being able to survive in todays society, so the earlier one learns how to read, the better.
There are a few things to remember when you learn how to teach reading. An adult who is need of learning to read, may not be as open to you teaching them to read as a child will be. An adult may in fact ‘feel' stupid or lesser than you, and can quite well go through moments of giving up while you are in fact teaching them reading. However, if you are calm, and reassuring, an adult can also enjoy reading.
You will learn how to sound out vowels to a potential reader and also how to sound out words broken up into syllables. This is often an easy way for another person, be them an adult or a child, actually learn reading from another. If you learn how to break words up into parts and sound them out to the one you are teaching to read, they can hear the word come together to make one word.
You will also learn how to make sure when you are teaching reading that you are placed in a quiet area, eliminating all distractions. Distractions can take away from what you are trying to teach and will in fact hinder your ability to teach reading successfully.
If you are learning how to teach a child reading, I suggest you either place the child on your lap, or at a table with the book you are teaching them to read from on the table top in front of them. As you are teaching the child to read, point with your finger to each word. You can also as an additional assistant to teach a child to read, relate the word you are sounding out to a picture in the book. Often this will help a child, or an adult for that matter, place the two things together and later be able to recognise the word instantly.
When you sound out a word to the one you are teaching how to read, get them to repeat after you the broken up syllables and then the word as a whole. Maybe you can even encourage them to find the picture of a given word in the book. Pictures are also a huge learning tool that can be used when one is teaching reading to another.
You have to be patient when another is learning or being taught how to read. You can not rush someone who is learning how to read, or they will choose to give up, and think it is just far too hard. So, remember, do not pressure the learning reader. Be patient, and if they get stuck, go back and start with the basics.
When you teach a person to read, you will learn how to choose an appropriate book for them to learn reading from. There is no point in expecting a 5 year old to begin reading from an 9 year olds level book. This is not only asking far too much, but being rather ridiculous, so use your commonsense when you are teaching another reading.
Try sticking to a small group of reading books for a given time frame - lets say one week. Once you have worked on these books, the following week you can eliminate the books the new reader is coping with, and replace them with a slightly harder book to learn how to read from.
The more time spent on learning and teaching another how to read, the more competent you are preparing the new reader for later life.
See Also:
Provide Your Baby the Benefit of Studying and Writing Early in Life
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