Teaching a child to read by syllables is the dream of many parents, because the ability to read is an important step for every child on his way to adulthood. In addition to the fact that reading skills will be simply necessary for studying at school, a magical world of literature will open before the child. He will not need to ask his parents to read this or that book, because your baby will be able to do it himself.
How to start teaching a child?
The algorithm of actions is as follows: first we introduce crumbs to all the letters of the alphabet, and then we teach the child to read by syllables.
Familiarity with letters can begin in early childhood, even up to three years. You can make letters from cardboard or buy special magnets on the refrigerator. Often show letters to the kid, voicing them. Note that it is not recommended to call letters as they sound in the alphabet. This will confuse the child with further formation of the letters of syllables. Showing the image of a letter, just call the sound.
Start acquaintance with the letters from the open solid vowels (A, O, Y, N, E). Then go to hard voiced consonants (M, L). Then the turn of the deaf and hissing consonants (M, W, K, D, T) and the remaining letters.
Repeat the material for each new lesson. It's good to learn the letters in the form of a game, because the age of the child has to do with it.
When all the letters are studied thoroughly, it's time to think about how to learn syllables with a child. Do not rush things. In three or four years not every kid has enough perseverance to learn to read and subsequently read. But the five-year-old child is about to pick up the alphabet.
Tips for teaching reading by syllables
By the way, the most positive feedback has the primer of N. Zhukova. Having opened this manual, you will immediately understand how to explain the syllables to the child and how to teach the child to merge syllables.
For example, this syllable considers the syllable "MA". The picture shows that the first letter of this syllable runs to a meeting with the second. "M" runs to "A". We get the "trajectory" of this letter: "Mm-m-MA-ah-ah-ah-ah." And at the same time, our syllable.
The child must remember that the first letter is directed to the second, and they are pronounced together, inseparable from each other.
The first syllables for reading your child should be simple and consist of two letters (MA, MO, LA, LO, PA, PO). And when the algorithm for reading these syllables is mastered, subsequent syllables with voiceless and hissing consonants will be studied by analogy. Next on the line are syllables, in which the first letter is a vowel (AB, OM, US, EH). This task is even more serious, but you will definitely cope with it.
And after that it will be possible to offer the child to read the first words. Let them be the simplest: MA-MA, PA-PA, MO-LO-KO.
To your baby read well and beautifully, over pronunciation, you have to work hard from the very beginning. Teach your child to clearly separate words from each other. Let it pauses between the words being read. In the future, he will reduce them. Much worse, if he learns to read the words in a sing-song and in-line. After all, he still has to write in school. That's where the ability to share in the mind parts of the sentence is useful.
Do not despair if it seems to you that the child is reading very slowly. For preschool age this is normal. The most important thing is that your kid has mastered the technique of reading, and he will master the skill in the future.
If mistakes are made while reading, patiently and unobtrusively make corrections so as not to discourage hunting. Try playing with the child in the composition of words using cards with images of different syllables. Over time, you will see how your baby independently changes syllables in places, forming words.
If the parents follow all of these recommendations, children quickly learn to read - in about 1.5 months. So everything is in your hands.