How to teach a child to read: tips for parents

Today, many parents are concerned about the early development of their offspring. Almost from the cradle they are trying to raise a prodigy by taking away childhood from the crumbs. Of particular interest to parents is reading. Partly because they themselves are too lazy to sit with the baby and the book. How to teach a child to read? Consider all the details.

At what age do you start reading?

Not earlier than 4-5 years. And it's not even about satisfying your own ambitions, boasting to other parents. And it is not that learning to read to 4 years can be very difficult, because the baby has not yet fully formed various types of thinking. And the fact that early learning steals from a child a happy childhood time. Study still has time to bother him. A carefree idleness will never be. So take your time.

Another important nuance.An offspring must himself want to start learning to read. Forget the word is necessary. Let it be the word I want. And an incentive! Be sure the baby should be stimulated. Let him understand why he needs it.

As an example:

• he will be able to read a new book for himself
• read the task for the computer game on the screen
• sit next to her mother, read her fairy tales

Just do not press on the fact that the ability to read is an advantage. Otherwise, grow a snob who considers himself the best.

How to get the child interested in reading

I have an example of a great incentive. Inspired by the fact that my father taught me to read at 4 years old according to the magazine "Crocodile", I imagined myself a great teacher. She began to teach her son to read at 4, but already according to the magazine "Marvel". Well, we had a terrible love for transformers and Spider-Man. The son perfectly mastered all the letters, even wrote them in the album (printed), but he categorically refused to read on his own. And we spat on this case.

By the age of 5, papa gave the child sony playstation. And a disc with a game about Spiderman. As luck would have it, there were a lot of tasks that needed to be read. At first, I did it myself.And then one day she didn’t cook dinner (she pretended) because: “Son, well, I didn’t have time to cook, I read to you!”

The child, moving his eyebrows, said sternly: “Go, boil the cutlets. I read it myself! ”I leave for the kitchen, depicting a stormy activity. After some time I look into the room. The child runs his finger along the lines on the screen, something bumps under his breath, periodically dives into his favorite comic book magazine.

About a week later we read decently in whole words. In 5 years. Why not by syllables? Because: “For a long time, I don’t have time to read - the spiderman will be killed, I will lose.” So much for the incentive.

Now my child does not accept paper format books. But the electronic version is always with him. Still, it's better than not reading at all, hanging out in DotA or Minecraft.

And now to those who are now angryly expanding nostrils. Say, computer game! At that age! And something else there! Excuse me. In this age of high technology, this is not going anywhere. Child isolate fails. Some kids in 2 years already know how to play phone games. So why not use it for good? Instead of shooting, offer a colorful development.They are now full for every taste, color and age.

Technology goes forward. And you also do not stand still. Interactive toys, electronic alphabets, children's computers - the list is large. Just choose wisely to do no harm.

How to learn letters

Some sources recommend the alphabet, primer of different authors. No doubt, these are bright, eye-catching books, with competent recommendations and advice for parents. But start to learn letters from what will be the sweetest child. From his name. Write it on paper. Color, add a picture of a man - he is himself. Let the kid try to write your name. Let dofantaziruet history.

In this case, be sure to say out loud sounds. For example, not er-o-em-a, namely p-oh-m-a. By the sounds! To make it easy to read. Do not hammer your head with the correct pronunciation of letters. We learn to read, but do not go through the program of primary classes.

After successfully mastering your own name, add the classic mom-dad. After three words, you can already take a children's book and look for familiar letters. For example, at the beginning of a word, at the end, in the middle.

Further we learn other letters.Some sources do not recommend doing this in alphabetical order. Because one picture will be assigned to one letter of a baby. Other associations will not occur. We went the other way. We bought a book in which there were as many as 7 (!) Alphabet. That is, the letters are the same, but the pictures are different. In other words, the letter a is not only a stork. It is also pineapple, automatic, Africa, apricot, bus. Thus, the child will learn exactly the letter, and not the picture under it.

Council Repeat more often. Learned today 2 letters. Found them in a book of fairy tales or in their own name. Next time we learned a couple more. And be sure to repeat the previous ones.

By the way, you can search for familiar letters not only in books. On a walk, look around:

• store signs
• playbills
• advertising labels
• ads

It's so interesting! Plus, for better memorization, you can play in the "City". But with different rules. Let all words begin with a learned letter. Or end. Just do not try to beat the son! He has to lose very rarely. Or pretend that you do not know more than words, even if prompts.

Council All kids love to go shopping. Ask your baby to help you.Let him read the name of the product on the label. Only not the composition, there are too many incomprehensible and difficult words. Do not forget to praise the child. Let him choose the product himself, read and pay for the purchase at the checkout. Be sure to tell your relatives in his presence what kind of assistant you have is growing.

We were greatly assisted in learning to read cubes and letters on magnets. I even had to buy three alphabets at once so that words could be collected on the refrigerator. Cubes also bought three sets. They were built from the building immediately with the inscriptions. Shop, kindergarten, school, work, cinema, pharmacy, garage, house. The whole city turned out.

Council Do not bother the child with learning if he is sick, unwell, or in a bad mood. The baby should be slept, fed and rested. Be sure to take breaks.

By the way, you can write the alphabet on the leaves. Stick them around the house. You go about your business, and ask the child to find and bring you a piece of paper called the letter. Over time, the task can be complicated by adding syllables, and then words. And do not skimp on the praise.

Learning to read fairy tales

My nephew was not at all interested in interactive toys, telephone and computer. But how he loved one single book! It was a fairy tale "Skaterochka, ram and soum." We read it 10 times in a row every day. Honestly, I was already beginning to feel nauseous about her. But what can't you do if only the child learns to read?

Then I had to pretend that I “forgot” the letters. Totally. And I can not read. Then the nephew grandly sat down beside him, and “read” to me himself. First, from memory, just flipping through the pages. Then I had to say that he was a little mistaken and was written differently in the book. Sighing heavily, the nephew asked where the letter was.

It was very useful that the words in the fairy tale were printed as in an ABC book - by syllables. It took about a month for the child to read at 6 years of age himself.

But the fairy tale is ugly, if you read not in whole words, but in syllables. The child called me a cruel boy, for having encroached on the holy. And he began to pronounce the syllables to himself. Already uttered whole words aloud. And since we read the tale no longer 10, but 20 times in a row, the words began to be produced by themselves.

Of course, as a reward for reading another fairy tale on my own, I had to generously give my nephew generous gifts with whole words. Bought a bike.But he still has little interest in computers, and reads a lot of paper books.

Alert questions: no, not a nerd. Yes, vision is all right. No, the class is not an outcast. Yes, it is interesting to talk to him.

Council Watch the baby. What fairy tale does he ask to read more often? Try to repeat my experience. Suddenly work?

Useful recommendations

Recently, the method of teaching reading from the age of 2 months has been popular with parents. It consists in showing crumbs cards with words at a fast pace. The most enthusiastic reviews, the child reads independently already at 2 years. But few people mention one very bad feature of this method. So say, side effect.

Often, children in 2 years can not really speak. They communicate with their parents ... yes, by the very cards. The delay in speech development is very significant. And to retrain the baby is very difficult. After all, from infancy he got used to cartons. Is it necessary for you to have a child mooing and waving papers? Like a monkey in the lab. And, if the animal touches such a "conversation", then in the case of its own child looks terrible.And the consequences are dire.

Some parents make a big mistake right from the start. They try to teach the child the rules of phonetics, explain about the softness and hardness of the letters, bored with the voiced and deaf sounds. After such a porridge in the head, the offspring flatly refuses to read on its own.

Moms and dads! Take it easy. All these details will be explained to the child at school when the time comes. Let him first learn to read at least by syllables. Instill interest, then you will already talk about all the subtleties of phonetics. Do not torture the child ahead of time.

There are sources that absolutely forbid teaching a child to read until he starts to pronounce all the letters correctly. It turns out that rotacism, lisping and other speech defects are an absolute obstacle?

What nonsense! Listen, what's stopping you from combining learning to read and visiting a speech therapist? Only your laziness and holy faith articles from fashion magazines. One does not interfere with the other.

All kids love to draw. And write too. So let it be not meaningless scribbles, and letters. Crooked, huge, small, still printed, but letters. Learned new - practice writing. There have been cases of pre-school children writing their own fairy tales. With pictures like real books! Maybe your child will become famous, thanks to these unpretentious stories?

How to teach a child to read? Start with a personal example. And do not be angry if the baby does not work. After all, everything comes with time. Gradually, the offspring will learn to read, if you competently help him. Good luck!

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