49 Ways to Teach Your Child to Read
Reading is what keeps your child toe-to-toe with his peers within the corridors of the classroom. It tends to improve his memory and level of remembrance for the subject matter.
Learning to read is not a crash course that kids take and are done with once they can read Tom and Jerry without any help. Learning to read is developmental and starts when a newborn looks at you and hears you talking to them.
Below are 49 pieces to the reading puzzle. 49 ways that you and your child can have fun knowing that they are working on early literacy development and learning to love books. This is not a definitive checklist it’s a buffet of options to help support your child as they develop literacy skills and become independent readers.
Find ideas that work for your family in this list of 49 ways to teach your child to read, every idea won’t be right, but some will!
- Read to your child.
- Play rhyming games.
- Sing the alphabet song with them.
- Label things with their names from an early age.
- Go to the library even when they are at that loud vote ice the only stage.
- Have nonfiction books as well as fiction available.
- Tell stories.
- Have books all over your house.
- Teach the letter sounds by emphasizing the sounds in words they often hear from a young age.
- Provide fun and exciting books for them to read.
- Get a magazine subscription and read it together.
- Make play dough letters.
- Play the alphabet game on road trips.
- Read the mail together.
- Make a reading nook.
- Clap out syllables.
- Make letter crafts.
- Make reading playtime.
- Notice letters in the environment.
- Learn about how books work and other concepts of print.
- Let them choose their books at the library or bookstore.
- Leave them notes in their lunchboxes.
- Play with foam letters in the bath. Use bath toys to make up and tell stories.
- Make your books.
- Play eye spy with letters and letter sounds. ” I spy something that starts with the letter B. Buh book!”
- Give your children books as gifts.
- Make up silly songs together.
- Ask them to read the pictures to you before they can read the words.
- Play library.
- Read the book, then see the movie for a family treat.
- Play with word families.
- Read books with no words and share storytelling duties.
- Let them see you reading for fun.
- Read nursery rhymes.
- Explore and trace tactile letters.
- Play listening games.
- Retell and have your children retell stories after reading them.
- Ask your child questions about elements of the story as you read with them. This works on comprehension.
- Read books at lunchtime.
- Take books with you when you travel.
- Build with letter blocks or make your own.
- Do word searches.
- Play sight word games.
- Download an e-reader app on your smartphone, and instead of handing it to them to play a game, make it a treat to use it to read.
- Read comics and graphic novels with them.
- Talk to your kids using regular words, not “kiddie” words.
- Read them poetry.
- Get their bodies moving to learn letters.
- Read them their favourite book over and over and over even if it’s making you want to poke your eyes out, and make reading part of their bedtime routine from day one.
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Adeyinka Meduoye
