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This is How to Teach a Child to Read - Children Learning Reading Part 3Reading is one of the most important skills one must master to succeed in life. It helps your child succeed in school, helps them build self-confidence, and helps to motivate your child. Being able to read will help your child learn more about the world, understand directions on signs and posters, allow them to discover reading as an entertainment, and help them gather information.Learning to read is very different from learning to speak, and it does not happen all at once. There is a steady progression in the development of reading ability over time. The best time for children to start learning to read is at a very young age - even before they enter pre-school. Once a child is able to speak, they can begin developing basic reading skills. Very young children have a natural curiosity to learn about everything. They are naturally intrigued by the printed texts they see, and are eager to learn about the sounds made by those letters. You will likely notice that your young child likes to look at books and thoroughly enjoys being read to. They will even pretend to behave like a reader by holding books and pretend to read them.At what age can you start teaching a child to read? When they're babies? At 2 years old, 3, 4, or 5 years old, or wait until they're in school?If you delay your child's reading skill development until he or she enters school, you are putting your child at risk... Did you know that 67% of all Grade 4 students cannot read at a proficient level! According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, of those 67%, 33% read at just the BASIC level, and 34% CANNOT even achieve reading abilities of the lowest basic level!There is a super simple and extremely effective system that will even teach 2 and 3 year old children to read.Read This Report and Visit The Provided Website and Sources For More Tips.TRANSCRIPT
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Contents
Teaching a Child to Read at an Early Age ........................................................... 4
Advantages of Teaching Children Reading Early ................................................. 8
Teaching Children to Read and Write .............................................................. 12
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Teaching a Child to Read at an Early Age
Did you know that 38% of grade four students have reading abilities
below the lowest basic level as determined by the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? The NAEP is the only
ongoing survey of what students known and tracks their
performance in various academic subjects for the United States. In
their report, the NAEP found that 38% of grade four students had
reading achievement below basic levels, with a basic level reading
score being 208.
To put things in perspective, the US reading scale has an upper limit
score of 500, with average reading scores for grade 4 (217), grade 8
(264), and grade 12 (291). The grade 4 reading achievement levels
are categorized by the NAEP as Advanced (268 score), Proficient (238
score), and Basic (208 score), and the basic reading achievement
level is defined as follows by the NAEP:
Fourth-grade students performing at the Basic level should
demonstrate an understanding of the overall meaning of what they
read. When reading text appropriate for fourth graders, they should
be able to make relatively obvious connections between the text and
their own experiences and extend the ideas in the text by making
simple inferences. [1]
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Unfortunately, over a third of all grade four students read at levels
even below basic. Is your child having reading difficulties? Research
on Phonemic Awareness have found that early reading helps
improves a child's reading and spelling abilities. In fact, the National
Reading Panel has concluded based on their massive review of over
1,900 studies that teaching phonics and phonemic awareness
produces better reading results than whole language programs.
There are numerous documented benefits and advantages of
teaching children to read early on, and teaching them to reading
using phonics and phonemic awareness instructions. It is clear that
early language and reading ability development passes great benefits
to the child as they progress through school at all grades, and that
early language and reading problems can lead to learning problems
later on in school. For example, a Swedish study found that children
with a history of reading problems at school entry scores significantly
below average on reading in grade 4. As well, children that shows
very low interest in books and story reading before age 5 also scored
similarly low on sentence reading in grade 4. [2]This is just one of
many studies which have similar findings, and this makes it an
imperative for parents to begin exposing their children to books and
reading at an early age.
So how early?
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Good question!
There's no set guideline on when you should start teaching your
children to read; however, you can start cultivating your child's love
for books and reading as soon as they're born. Obviously, very young
babies would not even know what books are, however, talking to
your child and reading to your child will help them develop a keen
liking for books and stories. As your child grows and gets older, avoid
TV-sitting them, because as they develop a dependency on television
as their main source of entertainment, it becomes very difficult to
dislodge that need for TV entertainment, and get them to enjoy
reading books. Instead, keep age appropriate books all around the
house, and read to them often. You'll find that they'll start picking up
books and pretend to read themselves, although at very early ages,
they still cannot read.
People typically think that kindergarten or grade one would be an
appropriate time for their children to start reading; however, this is
not the best approach as studies have repeatedly found that children
with good phonemic awareness before entering kindergarten
continues to outperform, and achieve exceptional reading and
spelling abilities as they progress through school. On the other hand,
children who enter school with reading difficulties may continue to
have reading and spelling difficulties.
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Notes:
1. NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card for the Nation and the States March 1999
Authors: Patricia L. Donahue, Kristin E. Voelkl, Jay R. Campbell, and John Mazzeo
2. J Learn Disabil. 1999 Sep-Oct;32(5):464-72. Early language development and kindergarten
phonological awareness as predictors of reading problems: from 3 to 11 years of age.
Olofsson A, Niedersøe J. Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Sweden.
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Advantages of Teaching Children Reading Early
Before a child learns to read, he or she must first learn the spoken
language, and this is one of the first instances where family members
such as dad, mom, older siblings, and grandparents play an
important role in "teaching" the child the spoken English language.
Whether young children realize it or not, they gain very early
exposure to the alphabet when parents sing the alphabet song to
them. They begin to develop language skills by being read to and
spoken to. One of the keys to teaching children reading early on is by
exposing them to alphabet letters, books, and reading to them often.
Reading nursery rhymes and children's books are an important part
of getting children to understand printed text. Talk to your children,
and talk to them often, whether they understand or not is not
important when they're just babies. The more you talk and interact
with your little ones, the better they will develop. The key is
exposure, and repeated exposure. Once your child learns to speak,
you can begin teaching them reading at home.
I often hear parents say that they don't want to "push" their child
too hard. How can teaching your child to read at a young age be
considered "pushing" them too hard? If you as a parent already have
the mentality that reading is a chore, and teaching them to read is
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pushing "too hard", you certainly can't expect your children to be
excited about learning reading. On the contrary, learning to read
offers a young child an opportunity for a lifetime to learn, discover,
and enjoy the wonders of reading. Parents (including myself) will
often underestimate the abilities and learning capabilities of young
children. When we first began our teaching reading program with
our first child when she was 2 years and 8 months, little did we
expect that in just a few short weeks, she would be reading not just
words, but sentences and story books. After about 3 months, by the
time she was 2 years 11 months old, our daughter could read "Step
in to Reading - step 2 (pre-school to grade 1 level)" books with some
guidance. The benefits of learning to read were apparent - improved
speech clarity, and better reading ability and reading
comprehension.
There are no shortage of studies which find many benefits in
teaching children reading at an early age. For example, one study
administered a Stanford achievement test at the start of
kindergarten and then again at the end of grade one found that early
language based skills were highly associated with later academic
performance in school aged children. [1]Similar studies also found
that a high level of letter knowledge in kindergarten can reliably
predict better later literacy skills.[2] Having a home environment
that's conducive to literacy growth is critical in a child's
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development, and directly affects a child's language and literacy
development. Studies have found that responsiveness and support of
the home environment is the strongest predictor of children's
language and early literacy skills. [3] My point here is help make
parents aware that children who enter kindergarten with highly
developed early reading skills will achieve greater success with
systematic reading education. [4]
It's never too late to start home lessons and programs to teach your
children to read. Regardless how old your child is, starting a reading
program at a young age will have ample benefits. Start with lots of
talking, singing, and reading to your child right from birth, and once
your child is able to speak, you can start a simple reading program.
Begin with teaching your child some basic letters and their sounds,
and even as soon your child learn just a few letters and their sounds,
you can begin teaching them simple blends using the letter
knowledge that they have acquired. Work on ear training with your
child on oral blending and word segmentation. One of the keys to
teaching children read is developing phonemic awareness. Studies
have shown that phonemic awareness is one of the best predictors
of reading success in children.
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Notes:
1. Percept Mot Skills. 2001 Apr;92(2):381-90.
Relationship between language skills and academic achievement in first grade.
Kastner JW, May W, Hildman L. Department of Pediatrics, Child Development Clinic, University of
Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216, USA.
2. J Exp Child Psychol. 1996 Jun;62(1):30-59.
Kindergarten letter knowledge, phonological skills, and memory processes: relative effects on early
literacy. Näslund JC, Schneider W. University of New Mexico, College of Education, Program in
Educational
3. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2005 Apr;48(2):345-59.
The role of home literacy practices in preschool children's language and emergent literacy skills.
Roberts J, Jurgens J, Burchinal M. Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute,The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-8180, USA.
4. Psychol Rep. 1994 Apr;74(2):403-7.
Kindergarten predictors of first-grade reading achievement: a regular classroom sample.
McCormick CE, Stoner SB, Duncan S. Psychology Department, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
61920.
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Teaching Children to Read and Write
Most parents, at one point or another, frets over the education and
the development of their children. Many concerned parents research
and seek information on the topic of teaching children to read and
write. I for one, am glad to see so many parents wanting to get an
early start for their children in reading and writing, because studies
have shown that developing these abilities early on before entering
school provides numerous benefits and advantages later on as the
child progresses through school.
More worrisome should be the fact that over one third, 38% to be
exact, of all grade 4 students cannot even achieve a basic level of
reading ability according to the National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP). This is an alarming statistic. Will your child become
one of the 38% who cannot reach basic reading achievement by
grade 4? For most children, this poor ability to read can be easily
prevented with early phonemic awareness teaching.
Reading must begin early in the life of a child, whether it is just an
alphabet letter, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, or a story. Teaching
children how to read must begin early on, and children should be
exposed to books, stories, rhymes, and be read to on a daily basis.
Children as young as 2 years old can learn to read if you teach them
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to read with the proper instructions. Please watch the video below of
a 2 year 11 months old reading randomly constructed sentences.
As Lida Williams said, almost 100 years ago:
Phonics is not a method of teaching reading, but it is a necessary
part of every good, modern method. It is the key to word mastery,
and word mastery is one of the first essentials in learning to read. A
knowledge of the sounds of letters, and of the effect of the position
of the letter upon its sound, is an essential means of mastering the
mechanics of reading, and of enabling children to become
independent readers.
100 years later, this still holds true. There has been a great debate on
what method of teaching is best to teach children how to read:
whether phonics or the whole language method is better. The whole
language learning to read method is more of a "word memorization"
plan, where a young child is supposed to memorize the "shape" of
the word, and say it.
It is important to distinguish the difference between phonological
awareness and phonemic awareness. Phonological awareness is very
broad, and includes phonemic awareness as a sub category.
Phonemic awareness is very narrow, and it is only focused on the
phonemes, which are the individual sounds of letters. There are no
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shortage of studies which have repeatedly found and concluded that
teaching phonemic awareness to young children produces
exceptional reading and spelling abilities. You can read more
about research on phonemic awareness here.
The whole language method simply expects a child to "read" when
presented reading material, and by memorizing sight words. The
phonics method is a bottom up approach where you teach children
to read in a logical and sequential order. You first teach children the
alphabet letters and the sounds they represent; then you teach
children to combine (or blend) various letter sounds together to form
words; which is then followed by reading sentences and simple
stories. This is a logical progression for children learning to read,
where they develop accuracy in decoding words and pronouncing
words. This method of teaching also helps the child to spell correctly.
There's no doubt that phonics and phonemic awareness instruction
is the superior method to teach children how to read. We have
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