How Would You Teach A Kid Who Started Reading To Read Better?

[ErinVVV]

I just started with my kid. Any tips would help.

[kvalidir]

Simple phoenetics. Teach tem the alphabet as sounds rather than AY BEE CEE make it ah buh cuh, then introduce simple words with pictures that match and work phoenetically. so things like CAT, DOG, BAT, PIG etc and work from there :) So much fun teaching littlies to read :) x

[kvalidir]

Beat me to it Simon , excellent post :)

[Cloverjo]

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[kvalidir]

Ohhhh didn't even see that Cloverjo... :(

[Prudie]

Tell your kid to avoid reading spam

[jno]

could be, but useful anyway. We used the Oxford reading tree

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/starting-school/oxford-reading-tree-explained/

and jno jnr ended up with a master's in English, so I'd definitely recommend it. Learning to read gives kids a real head start in life. Other reading schemes are available.

[woofgang]

I would leave around books that they will be REALLY interested in. You can be the world's best teacher but if the child has no reason to read then they won't....also I would let them see that I value and enjoy reading....and not just texts and social media.

[jourdain2]

When my eldest showed reading readiness, aged 18 mths., I was rather taken-aback, but knew I must strike whilst the iron was hot. Ladybird books were the answer in the first instance. Janet and John may have been designed as a remedial series, but they worked fine with a tiny one.

I gradually discovered other sources, but did end up writing quite a few of my own stories in order to have the level of content equal to her age, but encompassed in more advanced English. She began school with a reading age of 9 (younger one was a bit later and started with R.A. of 7 and a half-ish). Just encourage a child and expose them to words and stories. I'm still going into school and doing this!!!

[diddlydo]

Sorry Jourdain but no child shows "reading readiness" (whatever that is) at 18 months. Yes, have books around, read to them, get them to identify objects etc in pictures and the rest will come later and naturally.

[woofgang]

Diddlydo, I did. I was a very early reader....not coached or hot housed, I just was. No one in the family was particularly surprised as I had an aunt who was the same.....and yes I went to school at 5 with a reading age of IIRC 8 years and some months, somewhere I have got the school reports to prove it. My parents didn’t do anything special although they rarely limited what I was allowed to read. I think the only time they censored my reading material was when there was something horrific in the newspaper......not that I particularly wanted to read newspapers but if there was printed materila around then I would try to read it.....btw I am not a genius or especially gifted.

[murraymints]

I can't remember "learning" to read..so must have started very early..I was reading The Scotsman out loud to dad before starting school at 5.... same with swimming..we were all water babies...

[murraymints]

I was put up a year after a few weeks of starting school...

[rowanwitch]

I am with the Woof, although I can beat the reading score by three years By the age of six I had to go to the junior school library because there was nothing suitable in the infant school, I was given books as soon as I could hold one and my grandmothers method was to point to something and ask me what it was then show me the word. It made the link between a thing a sound and a pattern of letters before I had any resistance. I was taken to the children's library as soon as I could wander round and soon got onto books without illustrations in my head the pictures were better.
Just having books around being seen to love them and care about them lets children know this is a good thing. First definite independant reading with a brand new book I hadnt seen before was also around 18 months. The book was Thomas the tugboat

[Peter Pedant]

// Diddlydo, I did. I was a very early reader.//

o god no - I was a reluctant reader, and was aware I was slipping down the class,

tmt - hit him, force him and ridicule him ! ( it was the sixties )
and ended up getting remedial teaching which is cvery useful even now for EU citizens who wanna improve their English ( large amount of do-it-yourself but heres how ....)

[murraymints]

I remember my first book was Little Women... Beth and Jo et al I even wanted a poplar dress ! lol...that was at 5 years of age.. I took it to read in the playground during breaks....

[rowanwitch]

My school in 1960s operated a buddy scheme pairing good readers with poorer readers, so by the time I was six I was sitting next to a lad called Iqbal Khan who had just arrived in the uk sharing books with him and showing him how the words worked. Nothing beats teaching as a way of consolidating learning, and as a bright outgoing child it was good for me too

[rowanwitch]

Minty, I wanted to be Robinson Crusoe but at that age Id have preferred a kitten to Man friday now maybe not so much

[murraymints]

lol I loved Robinson Crusoe..Biggles was another favourite !

[rowanwitch]

Then I got into Myths and legends of different lands I wanted to be Isis