I need tips on teaching my 4 year old daughter how to read...?

Question

I need tips on teaching my 4 year old daughter how to read...?

Answer 1

Assuming she already knows her alphabet, you can teach her how different letters sound and have her sound out simple words like cat, bat, hat ect. and gradually get her to sound out longer, more difficult words.

Answer 2

start with some age appropriate book and help her start reading... read to her and have her look at the pictures and words.  keep reading with her every day.

Answer 3

I've been teaching my four year old son to read over the last few months because he had been pleading with me to do it. He had a very good grounding in phonics and was already trying to sound words out and was ready to learn. This is essential before you start. I wanted to make it fun for him as I didn't want him to get bored so here are some of my tips.

Find out what reading scheme she will be using in school and choose a different one. This way she won't get the same books in school and be bored.

Join a library and borrow books. I am living abroad and I couldn't do this and it was a very expensive exercise.

Start with simple books and work gradually. If the books are too difficult she will lose interest.

I used a combination of reading programmes that worked on phonics and high frequency words. I triede to get books that were funny. Some of the ones I used were Jolly Phonics, Read-write inc, Oxford reading tree, red nose readers, usborne phonics readers and Bob books. The bob books are nice because they have 3 letter words that most kids can sound out. I also used ladybird books and the internet.

there is a website you can join for a fee that gives access to lots of graded readers, www.readinga-z.com but they are in black and white and some kids don't like that.

If you go to a bookstore and get 2 identical sets of high frequency words you can play snap and you both read the words as you put them down. My son loved this. Introduce a few at a time and you will be amazed how quickly she learns them.

Take it at her pace and make it as much fun as possible. If you want to buy books go onto ebay or similar. It'll save you a fortune. Use the internet for games that help too and for lists of high frequency words.

Don't push her too hard and reading early isn't always advantageous. Being ahead of her peers can cause problems down the line with boredom. all kids learn to read in their own time so just enjoy it and hope she learns to love it.

Answer 4

dont try reading too many books to her because she'll just memorize the book in her mind and not actually be able to read the book. Start with the word at, teach her to read at. And once she can read at, have her sound out cat and hat and then she can start to read the book the cat in the hat, so teach her words at a time then she'll slowly start to learn to read

Answer 5

Hi there, if you're talking about a reading program that will enable your child to read words and decode letters and word blends to read unfamiliar words I suggest purchasing the jolly phonics program. It's a program that we use in our junior kindergarten and senior kindergarten classess....it's an excellent way to help children learn the sounds of the letters. Junior Kindergarteners here are four so it's completely age appropriate and super fun with colouring pages, fun characters, interactive songs and so much more. Enjoy!!

Answer 6

RELAX 4 come on.

Answer 7

I used the Leap frog interactive DVDs. These are great along with co-reading ( he read simple words I sounded out the harder words with him) books my 5 year old reads quite well.

Answer 8

My first question is... what's the rush? Is she interested? Is she asking you to teach her? Even if she's asking you questions about reading, is she actually asking you to teach her how to read, or are these just small curiosities?

The first and most important thing about learning to read is making sure she's developmentally ready. And to me that doesn't necessarily mean merely that she's capable of learning the mechanics of reading. Once a child can digest the actual plot of a story, they're much more likely to be interested in the GOAL of reading.

That said, there's nothing wrong with teaching letters and sounds. If she wants to know how to write a particular word, write it down for her and let her copy what you've written. If she wants to know how to write "CAT," write it down and let her explore that. Then show her what happens to the word if you erase the "C" and replace it with an "H"... and so on.

Just take is slow. Children are much more likely to develop a life-long love of learning if they are allowed to learn on their own terms.

Answer 9

go to starfall.com  i listed that on a forum where I am a member and another member sent an email thanking me because her grandson enjoyed learning there so much he wanted to go there on the computer instead of playing the games he enjoyed before.