Please help me guys, ideas for tutoring little kids?

Question

Well, I am tutoring a kid named Timothy and he has not started school yet...he knows the basic stuff though, like basic adding with one-digit numerals. as for reading, he does not know how and his dad requested that I focus on teaching him how to read..So far I just write basic words on the board and have him sound it out. But that is boring and I want to give timmy a variety...please can u give me educational games, activities, or ideas? Thanks so much in advance! Something fun for his age, please. And mostly has to do with learning to read &sound words out...thanks !!!

Answer 1

For Timothy to learn to sound out words, first ensure that he can distinguish sounds in the environment. Play listening games with him. Tape record various sounds and play them to him for him to guess what they are. Make sounds with various household objects. Show him first, then hide and play one. He has to pick the object he thinks made the sound. If you establish that he can distinguish sounds then he is ready to hear the sounds in words.

Introduce a few sounds at a time. Say the sound and have him say it back to you. In England some teachers use actions to go with the sound. So for 's' children make snake movements with their hand, for 'p' they hold up a finger as a candle to their mouth and whisper 'p' as if blowing out the candle. The scheme these actions are in is called 'Jolly Phonics.' Introduce what the sounds look like as flash cards. Don't just stick to one a week, have about 6. New advice in England is that you should use the letters 's a t p i n' first. This is because these letters can make quite a lot of CVC words.

Play games with the sounds you use. Show pictures. 'Can you find me something that starts with the sound 's'?' Play bingo and lotto games with the letters, calling out sounds and having Timothy cover up any sound he has on his bingo card, etc. Once he is familiar with the first few sounds you can start putting them together to make CVC words, such as sat, pat, tin, etc. One idea that I was taught is to write the word down, and draw a dot under each sound. These are the 'sound buttons' and Timothy presses them and says each sound, and what word is made when they're put together. Play games rolling 3 dice with letters he knows on and trying to make a 'real' word. Play bingo and lotto games, play snap, play pairs games - anything that gets him familiar with looking at the letters and saying the sounds to make words. Say the sounds in a CVC word and have him say the word that that makes. Better still, have a 'phonics puppet' that says the sounds and he says the word. Alternate and say the word and have him tell you the sounds. He needs to do both (segment and blend) in order to read and spell. Use various media to get him to form the letters - playdough, paint, string, chalk, pencil, pen, anything you can think of to get him used to the shape of the letters. Go outside and look for things that start with sounds he knows.

You really need to get him to know most of the sounds before you begin to try him on actually reading books. Before that just focus on the phonics games. Also, make sentences containing sounds he knows for him to read. Let him illustrate them and you can make them into books for him to keep. E.g. "A cat sat in a pan." Once you think he has mastered the sounds, try to find phonics based story books, or at least stories with a lot of CVC words in. There are some words that you will have to teach as he comes to them in books, as they appear a lot and are not necessarily phoncally correct, or not at the stage he is at, such as 'the' and 'said.'

Answer 2

Teaching little kids to read can be so much fun!  There are all kinds of games they already know, that you can change to show children how to read or spell.

  Hopscotch is pretty fun. Use sidewalk chalk to make it and in each box put a letter then tell Timothy to jump in squares to spell cat, dog...etc. or just use sidewalk chalk, to spell stuff, because its still more fun than reading off a board.

Theme games like Mother may I or Red light green light, around spelling.  They have to spell a word to go forward.

Make coloring boards with letters (vowels, consonants...) to teach or sounds (th, ch, sh... etc) and they color certain sounds certain colors and end up with a pretty picture.  

Have a fake wedding to marry Q and U together to teach that they always go together when spelling.

teach words in groups, animals, vehicles, days, months, weather... etc and theme the day, make a calendar, play related games...

Write a short story together, one sentence per page, and let him illustrate it.

Bring fun books to read so he can get context, not just being repetitive.

When all else fails they have workbooks you can purchase based on the age group with activities preplanned out.

HAVE FUN!!!! Kids always learn more when they aren't realizing they are learning.  They just want to play!

Answer 3

I would get books with more pictures than words definatley.  Also, i supose you could try sitting down with him and helping him sound out words in stories he already is familiar with like twinkle twinkle little star or something.  Also, there are coloring book stories, that have pictures for kids to color ,and at the bottom the words to the story (there usually stories like jack and the bean stock type stuff) and you can  keep him motivated to read the botom text by telling him, he gets to color each  picture he reads.  Thats the best i got,  hope it helps.

Answer 4

get those books with pictures and read it to him... if he knows the alphabeth good if he doesn't make a fun and easy song..

Answer 5

Try this:

Ask Timothy for a word that is important to him.  He might choose 'monster' or 'Xman.'  That's ok.  Write the word on one side of a card and his name on the other.  Now it is HIS word.  Have him choose another word and do the same with that.  When you have several words, have him pick out each.  Help him to make sentences with HIS words (you can add a few) and read the sentences.  Try swapping one of his words with another, and see what happens to the sentence. This works in some of the words you want him to learn.  Progress to having him write HIS words, then his sentences, then a little story.  That ought to bring requests for new words.

Ashton-Warner's book describes the method, which she invented.

Answer 6

Get those kind of baby books with little pictures and he know what to say.

Answer 7

try edhelper.com

Answer 8

Get these books...you'll never run out of ideas!

Go to this site at http://www.montessori-book.com/

Answer 9

According to the Orange County Kindergarten preparedness program...http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/dol...

Turn these words into flash cards...

For math...use aplusmath.com

These are tools to educate...turning them into creative games comes from the child's personality and your relationship with him.

HAVE FUN!

Answer 10

Find out what he is interested in and write sentences that include the topic of interest. For example if he likes dinosaurs, you could write: I like dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are big. Some dinosaurs eat grass. Use the words you want to teach him in a context that will interest him.

Good luck.

Answer 11

Use lots of pictures/images accompanying the words. Grab his attention with visual teaching aids. Don't worry there are many free teaching resources you van get on the web: http://www.tuitionplaza.com/tutoring/

Answer 12

if you have a computer where you are teaching him you can go to this web sight and click on the book and you can read the books on line it is the same books the teachers have at schools and they have the level listed for you it helps my child alot