Kindergarden words?

Question

i have a 5 yr old sister. today i helped her to do her homework and i realized that she cant read well. She already know the alphabet. I wanna teach her some kindergarden words like i, he, she, bears, bee, a other words but i cant list all of them. i dont know wat to start. plz help

Answer 1

You can invest in some flash cards and also read books pointing at the words. After u have read the book about 3 times try to prompt her to recognise some wordsin between by pointing at them and stopping there.

Also what i do for my son is i print 4 words from each family of 3 groups. Like mat, bat, hat, cat and pen, hen, den, men and bear, gear, dear, fear and then print them on a sheet. I stick it on the fridge and whenever we pass it i ask him to read them. By 7-10 days he knows them very well and theni print a new set. Try to pick words from a story book so they can read them in the story.

Answer 2

Start with word families like- cat , bat , sat , mat. The "at "words, then work into "et" get, wet, set etc... words. That way she is really reading the words by sounding them ouot instead of memorzing random words.

Answer 3

your sister is not behind at all

some children are quick learners and some are not as fast

firstly i think you should find out how she can learn easily, i am a kinestetic learner, which means i like to listen and do things myself to learn, you sister may like to see thing to learn, you can find this out by doing different word games, such as the picture cards or letter and word videos from the internet, you can also get easy learning books from places like WHSmiths and WATERSTONES

i hope i could be of help

all the best

demi.

Answer 4

Visualizing words are always helpful for people who are trying to learn  how  to read or even learn a new language.  Try those picture books with labels on them.  For example, there is a picture of the bathroom, then there are labels on everything that is in there -- sink, toothpaste, bathtub, shampoo, etc.  Also, try teaching her phonetics, it might help her, too.  

Good luck.

Answer 5

How does her teacher say that she is doing?  At 5 a child should be a beginning reader so they should have the first 50-100 sight words (like those you refer to) and should also have the letter sounds so they can sound out unfamiliar words as they read.  You can get a list of these words and more information at

http://www.kidzone.ws/dolch/kindergarten...

among other sites.  You can search for Dolch sight words to find many other resources.

Good Luck

Answer 6

type in "slosser sight words" or even "kindergarten sight words" and a list will come up. In kindergarten they are not expected to read well, but they should be starting to understand letter sounds and sight words.

Answer 7

Check out Usborne Books for wonderful resources:  http://www.ubah.com/g2687

The phonics readers series, Fat Cat on a Mat, Big Pig on a Dig, etc., are great for this age group.  Also, the Farmyard Tales series is great - easy-to-read, but can be more advanced with the dual-reading system.  Also, the Learning Palette system is a good game-like tool which she can do by herself.

Answer 8

You can always try teaching Word Families.  Like the "AT" family.  at, bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat, and vat.

Answer 9

Try buying those flash cards that you can get in the shops with words on them, and teach her by getting her to read through them.

Answer 10

As a former kindergarten and first grade teacher in both public and elite private schools, I can tell you that your five year old sister isn't behind and it's ok if she can't read yet.  Many children don't begin reading until the first grade. Some children aren't developmentally ready to read until the age of 7. In fact, in many European and Asian countries, schools don't formally start teaching specific reading skills until children are in the second grade (age 7).  Having said that, the best thing you can do for pre-literacy skills is just read to you sister every single night. Read all sorts of genres to her (fairy tales, poems, non-fiction, tall tales, stories from other cultures, adventure, biographies, etc). Remember trying to cultivate a life-long reader requires children to love words and books from the beginning. Emphasizing out-of-context reading skills before they are ready can sometimes backfire and cause reading to be viewed as a chore and not something that gives pleasure (this is what happened to my younger brother. He managed to go through undergrad, med school and currently his adult life without reading a single book for pleasure).  

However, having said all this, if you insist on teaching your sister some words, there is the dolch word list (a list of words usually taught starting in first grade that can't always be spelled phonetically and can be found if you google "dolch").