Easy way to read?

Question

my son is 5 he is in kindergarden still donn't know how to strech the word when he read. please can you tell me what is the easy way to teach him thanks.

Answer 1

Focus on practicing with sounds.  You can do a bubble gum game where you pretend to be chewing some gum.  Then pretend to stretch out the gum as you are saying the word slowly.  Ex:  ggggguuuuuummmmmm.  If he is having problems remembering the sounds, then you need to focus more on the sounds and practicing with them--- you weren't too specific in what he's having trouble.  Hope this helps.  Practice makes perfect.

Answer 2

I taught my little ones by first making sure they knew what each letter was by letter recognition, then taught them their letter sounds by singing each letter and the sound they made.  Then, after they knew what each letter looked and sounded like we would march to the "vowels"... yeah sounds corny but it worked.  

All the while of teaching this I would read for myself my own books, and each night (sometimes all day if they wanted it) I would read to them and when I read to them I always pointed to the words.  Once they knew all the sounds I would start sitting your little one on your lap and read a book with them, when you run across an easy word such as "cat" have them sound it out.  The first time they read it correctly make a very big deal, kids love positive encouragement, if they get it wrong, that's fine just work through it with them and keep going like no big deal.

Answer 3

Most kindergardeners don't know how to read yet.  At that age "reading" is saying your ABC's, recognizing individual letters, matching same words, being able to spell your own name, pairing capital letters with lower case, etc.  Kindergarden sets the baseline for 1st grade (where he will learn to read).

You can help him along the way with his letters by going on a scavenger hunt.  Take turns looking for things that begin with certain letters.  

Another game is "I Spy".  I do this with my kids a lot.  You say "I spy with my little eyes something that is green (or whatever color).  They try to guess.  You can play this game anywhere.  We do it most while driving down the road.  It not only occupies their time but  will increases vocabulary skills.  Just don't forget to let your son have his turn!  LOL

There is a neat little website called www.starfall.com that he may enjoy.  It is interactive.  I think most of this will be over his head but it is kind of like playing a video game while learning how to read.  It will read to him.  As I'm sure you know, reading is memorizing so have fun with it.

Remember, you son will get it.

Answer 4

I'm assuming that this child knows his letter sounds if you are at the point of "stretching" the word.  Maybe this will help.  We've been using this book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann...and having great success with our 5 year old.  One of the things that I like about it are the visual cues.  They use a black dot under each letter that makes a sound and if the letter is silent they print it smaller than the rest and do not have a dot underneath.  They also underlined the word (with a dot at the left side) with an arrow pointing to the right.  The child starts with his finger on the left side of the arrow (on the dot) and then traces the arrow and stops at each dot to sound out that letter/sound.  Then they say it "the fast way" running their finger from the left to the right and blending the sounds together.  Good luck!

Answer 5

Do you mean to pronounce each letter?  Or syllabication?  Either way, you need to check to see if he knows the sounds of all the letters.  Once that is achieved, point to one letter at a time while he sounds it out.  After all are sounded out several times, begin putting the sounds together to read the word.  Next, teach him the syllables and how many there are ex. cat - 1 Syllable   (note- put your hand under your chin and show him that your jaw drops one time when you read the word because it has only one syllable).  Now that the word is read, he needs to see it and read it all the time to develop fluency with his sight words. (Sight words are words that he will see often in text that is intended at his grade level. You can find them online or ask the teacher). I hope this was helpful!

Answer 6

what do u mean stretch the word? give examples