DD is 3, and she desperately wants to learn how to read.
So how do I go about teaching her? Any advice, help, resources appreciated!
Please none of the "she is too young", "let her just be a kid" stuff - she has asked for this repeatedly over the last couple of months and is now getting quite upset about not being able to read her stories to herself and it is making her sad. So she is ready.
We got some of the Nursery Rhyme books that have maybe 6 or 7 words to a page. I sit with Miss J and point as I read and then she repeats what i'm saying and she points at the words as well. (Yes I know she is 2.5 years but LOVES books). She recognises some of the words in the books now too. I have words stuck around the house as well so she recognises these words to read too.
Things like door, chair, table, fridge, cupboard etc.
I'll have a look and see what brand the books are and let you know.
HTH and good on your little girl for wanting to learn to read! xx
Love the words around the house! What a top notion!
Cheers Will put some up.
Thanks a bunch hun! x
ETA: Thanks Babyluv She knows all the letters, we are working on sounds at the moment. She has some flash card things, but I found she was just repeating the picture, not actually looking at the word. Would that matter? I thought perhaps I need to get some without pictures on them?
The books are from 5 Mile press and they are written by Trace Moroney. We have pat a cake, Hickory D**kory Dock and 2 others I can't remmeber the names but I know there are a few in the series.
Have you tried the D I C K and Jane books? I got some from The book depository and they were great. Start off really easy and then progress on.
A website called Reading Eggs is also good, it's a young readers site and progresses on also for school age.
Some books like the Who's Nose and toes? by John Butler are great, as they are repititive and he also has other one's like Who's baby am I?
When I was at school, my English teacher taught his 2yr old to read. Never too young to start the passion for reading.
My Mum has also bought us some great books, such as a picture then the word, this helped my DS2.
I would start by teaching her the names of the letters and their sounds. This is the letter 'A', 'A' says a, a, a,. Then you could show her some 'A' words and pictures will help. Ant, Apple etc. She needs to be able to recognise the letters & know the sounds first. Maybe get some flash cards with bright pictures and simple words on them.
You could also have a list of golden words that you could begin practicing together such as 'at, is, in, I, me' etc. I'm sure if you googled them they would come up.
3 isn't too early especially if she wants to learn. Good luck
But the best thing that helped DS to learn his sounds and letter was a puzzle
I found a wood alphabet puzzle and over three months ...DS learned every sound, name for the letter and sounds or words associated like c, car, cake, cookie....etc
He started doing the puzzle by himself with my help
Then he did it by himself
Then he made the sounds by himself
Then associated words
Now he reads two and three words per page.... Small books and of course I don't know if it's memory or reading .....lol
But we are working our way through books with a whole sentence on each page.... Sounding everything out...and he gets it...
He's 2 years and 2 months old now. We start red this about 1 and a half..... Hope that helps
There is a webpage that my teacher MIL recommended is called starfall (google it). Goes through all letters and numbers and different words starting with that letter as well as a little puzzle game for each. Can also teach computer skills at the same time.
Last edited by Astrolady; January 26th, 2011 at 05:07 PM.
Haven't had time to read the other responses but I just thought I'd mention that our kindy uses 'Letterland' (google it). Not sure if that would be helpful to you or not..
GL!
I've found those really repetitve books like 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see, I see a yellow duck looking at me' type books, anything that rhymes - DD has picked up so much by ready 'predicatable books'...
What a clever girl, she can look at the letters and knows what they are?
If that's the case yea maybe some flash cards without pictures or even some reader books, like what they use in prep that repeat words on most pages with only one or two different words on each page and pictures that give her clues as to what it's about.
Limey, get a copy of "Reading Magic" by Mem Fox. My DD1 learnt to read before school just by using the sorts of techniques in that book. Also any games etc using letters from the alphabet are good. Get used to saying "G is called Gee and says guh" so she learns the letter name AND the sound it makes.
ETA - saw that she knows the letter sounds. She is probably really close, so doing the book-based activities that MF suggests will help her learn about sounding out words too.
Last edited by AnyDream; January 27th, 2011 at 09:47 AM.
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