Things You'll Need:
- Patience and the ability to help your child grow. A couple easy reading books.
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Step 1
Basic letter recognition is important.Basic introductory lessons for identifying letters and the sounds that those letters make is the first step to sounding out words. Used frequently to teach children, flash cards are quite effective. Memory games like these are fun for children. This is where parent involvement is crucial. These games give children a chance to see how someone else would say a letter or sound. Thus expediting the learning process. When starting out you may have to go through the sounds and letters to get the child acquainted. Memory takes over and it becomes a guessing game, urging the child to want to learn more. At this age in their development children are like sponges everything in their environment they absorb.
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Step 2
Fu n excercises expediate the process of learning.Sounding out words help a child recognize the sounds that each letters make when the are sounded out together. When I help my son or daughter I usually will read the section that my child reads, then I let them sound out every word by themselves. After they complete each section, each paragraph, I will read the paragraph again. This helps the student in understanding the content. It also helps them from loosing interest because they didn't really understand what they read. Have patience some children learn slower than others. These ideas have worked well with my three children.
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Step 3
Help your student complete their home work so that you know what your child is or isn't learning. Add extra exercises for trouble areas. Teachers are often busy during class time with all the students. This little bit of one on one time might be all a child needs to get over the trouble areas.
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Step 4
Children love to read.There are many resources that can help you with this strategy. For example leap frog pads are computerized books with different educational lessons. These are interactive exercise that are fun to the children. There are many other resources, yet nothing compares to parent involvement. From birth children attempt to mimic there parents actions to be more like them. So be a positive role model, allow them the opportunity to read with outside their normal educational lessons.
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Step 5
My children often ask me what it is that i am reading, so I involve them by reading aloud. This often sparks questions of curiosity on issues that their not familiar with. They may not always understand the material you are sharing, but it gives them a chance to expand their vocabulary and critical thinking.
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Step 6
For those of you with teenager provoke their intuition. Give them material that invokes emotion or interest. Rather it supports their ideology or it provokes everything they believe, with out a passion to read many of them may never read more then the required reading at school. My 14 year old picked up " The diary of Ann Frank ", she was so amazed at the content of her writing at such a young life. She has found her passion in historical and documented events.
