Every thinking parent knows how important reading is in the life of a child. The question of "reading or not reading?" Is usually not worth it, but everyone is thinking about how to attract a child to independent reading. Today the readiness of the child for reading is determined by the parents themselves, and few wait for the school trip, as it was 15-20 years ago.
When should I start teaching the child to read?
Some start teaching children to read Doman cards at the age of six months, while others believe that it is necessary to begin no earlier than 3-4 years with a classical primer. Many teachers agree in one thing - until the child has learned to speak clearly and distinctly, there can be no question of any independent reading. But when a 3-4 year old kid shows a lively interest in books, then you can start and even need to. If the child is unconcerned and does not really like the print media, then before starting to learn reading, you need to decide how to interest the child by reading books. Fortunately for parents, the choice of bright and colorful books today is simply huge, and some are also perfectly complemented by motor elements or sound accompaniment. Such books not only offer interesting reading for children, but also immerse the kids in an exciting game that is closer and more understandable to them in view of age features. Books, at first, are not a source for teaching reading, but a method of involving children in this process. For training in preschool age, kits for creativity, magnetic board, cubes are more likely to be useful.
Rules for teaching a child to read
- Get the alphabet or the alphabet. These books will be further associated with the baby with the lessons, and playing a small schoolboy here is very useful. Well, if the book will not only letters, but also drawings. This will help the child to associate the letter with the object already familiar to him. For example, the letter "T" is an association of a hammer. Pick up a few short verses or tongue twisters for each letter - this will certainly turn the class into an exciting journey into the world of knowledge.
- Begin training with vowels. Vowels can be sung on the melody of familiar songs. It's fun and interesting. Try to ensure that each session is accompanied by a creative task - to dazzle, decorate, cut. Then the letters will not seem to the kid incomprehensible hieroglyphs, they will become for him something animate and familiar.
- After studying the vowels, proceed to the consonants. It is important to remember, when teaching preschoolers, reading requires letters to be called sounds. For example, the sound is "P", not "ER". So the child will immediately switch to reading the syllables.
- Try to compose for each letter a small fairy tale, which would represent a "stranger" baby. For example, "The Tale of the letter" U ". There was a very mischievous and cheerful letter U, who loved to roll on the hills most of all. She climbed to the top and rushed with a cry of "Uh ...". It is appropriate to dazzle out of plasticine or cut out the letter Y from the paper and a couple of times to roll it off with an improvised roller coaster.
- Use materials for creativity. Kids learn the world through sensory perception, i.e. they must all touch, smell, or even try. Lepish the letters of plasticine, cut out cardboard, bake letter cookies - such lessons will forever remain in the memory of the child.
- When studying letters, immediately try to add them into syllables and words. This will help to form a positive motivation,
after seeing their first positive results, the child will be engaged with increasing interest. No matter how much the adults would like to interest the child with independent reading of books - without his own desire to read the result will not be. - Be consistent, act from the simple - to the complex and do not start a new one without fixing the already learned material. Early learning of children is effective when the kid is waiting impatiently for each lesson. Remember, when teaching a preschooler to read, it is important to conduct classes regularly, preferably more often and for a short time (10-15 minutes 3-5 times a day).