Tips for helping my child learn to read?

Read with and to you daughter. Have her sister read to her. Read constantly. Place her name in HUGE letters above her bed, so she sees it before bed every night. Focus on 1 letter a week. Let her pick the letters out of a bag and that is the letter of the week. Ask her to come up with the sound that letter makes (not asking her to come up with what makes the mmm sound but the other way around). Then come up with words that start with that sound. Write them down for her & have her draw a picture of the article. Let her make up a song about the letter, or poem and write it for her using as many words that start with that letter. Go to your library and have her pick out books with titles that start with that letter. Often libraries will also have books about each letter & letter sound. The leapfrog videos have s song about the letter sound (which helped my son & you can probably request them from your library). Pick a food that starts with that letter for every night that week.

But the bottom line is spend time with her actually learning & make it fun. The more interested she becomes the easier it will be & the sooner she will catch on. Good luck.

READ,READ,READ... we read for at least half an hour every night before bed, usually my daughter reads 2 easy books, I read 1 long book to her. She is 6, in first grade and was behind in her class, we finally caught her up to speed, but the biggest thing I think is the sounds of letters. Once my daughter caught on to that (in kindergarten) she was reading beautifully! Practice, practice, practice and patience, patience, patience!

We used letter magnets and every night while I cooked dinner we practiced the sounds of the letters, now we practice spelling, I call out a word like cat, she spells it out loud, then I tell her to rhyme it and spell that word, so she says hat, and spells it, etc. Just work with her and she will eventually get it.

And spelling her name, just make a song and sing it M-A-D-I-S-O-N, and if she doesn't know the letter when she hears it, just have her practice writing her name as often as she will and make it fun with cool glitter markers or something..

You can make flash cards. Put them around the house on things. Like the door, so she can associate the word with the object. Have her say the word then spell it. Then over time remove the cards and just show them to her. Have her say the word and spell it. I started using flash cards with my daughter when she was 3, she started kindergarten this year and they have moved her into the gifted and talented program. Also, read, read, read. Let her read the words that she knows in the book. Let her put her finger under the words and teach her to sound out words and for the words that are not on her grade level just tell her, and make her repeat it after you. That's how I read with my daughter and she's doing wonderful.

Go to -

Starfall.com

It is free and tons of wonderful fun things to teach a child about the basics of reading.

Also well worth the price is Readinga-z.com

We've use both of these for homeschooling and my kids are doing well.

to get the most you should use the appropriate method. such children usually love with pictures and video. you can use the media to teach your child to read. each child has its own characteristics, imposing obsolete method to children will only make stress

First, you're doing GREAT!!! It's convenient to get stuck up in a single trainer's panic---it does not sound like final yr's trainer had issues. Reading is developmental, and he is nonetheless establishing!!! It feels like they're emphasizing "sight phrase studying", this means that he simply is memorizing phrases...that's why he is simply guessing. Continue to learn identical to you are doing!! Emphasize phonics (the SOUNDS letters make, and chiefly while they are paired in combination) at house!!! Reading is a development of many potential: one million- first the little one needs to be equipped to differentiate among sounds. (with out some thing visible!) Rhyming video games aid to paintings in this. Or sound video games, like, simply watching across the room & asking him "what **sound** does "fan" begin with"? He demands to be equipped to auditorily section verbal phrases, via listening to "ffff" or that it ends with "nnn". two- the little one then needs to be equipped to spot letters via title (what it feels like he can do!) three- the little one then demands to understand that no longer handiest does every letter have a reputation ("Bee"), however it additionally makes a SOUND (""bbbuh"). If a little one attempts studying phrases via making use of the letter's NAME, the little one is probably not equipped to "sound out" so much phrases--chiefly vowels! (he'd learn the phrase "bat" as Bee-Ate). four- so, then, the little one then begins pairing the VISUAL letters with the auditory sounds he hears (letter-sound institutions) to be equipped to be trained to use phonics. five- while, he will have to even be memorizing sight phrases (that are phrases that do not comply with regulations of phonics, however he simply demands to understand mechanically, similar to "one" or "of"). ---> that is what it feels like he is looking to do with ALL phrases. 6- then comes fluency (studying mechanically, with velocity and accuracy), and comprehension. Your little one isn't particularly there but, and that's developmentally APPROPRIATE!!! There are best on-line web sites with studying events, and even inter-lively video games (beneath).