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Dec 13, 2012
How to Teach Reading - Top 5 Tips
### 1. Read aloud with your child Knowing what a fluent reader sounds like is critical for a child to advance their reading towards fluency. By reading aloud to your child you can give them a vocal model of fluent reading of which they can try and emulate. Making sure to keep rhythm with what’s written on the page, pause for full stops and commas, emphasise exclamation points, modulate your tone and inflection to reflect a characters voice or the general mood of a story are all things you need to keep in mind when reading to your child. ###...
Dec 11, 2012
Simple Steps to Teach Kids How to Read
Although reading itself is a complex process, involving a number of different literacy skills, the steps taken in order to introduce those skills are relatively simple. In order to teach kids how to read, and how to enjoy the reading that they do, here are some simple and time-tested strategies that that are good to use. ### Have books on hand It’s helpful to have a range of good books available at home for your child to read. If you don’t have them at home, make sure you take regular trips to the library to ensure your child reads different...
Dec 11, 2012
5 Tips for Teaching Kids to Read
Educators agree that when teaching kids to read there are five core literacy skills that need to be taught: **phonemic awareness**, **phonics, vocabulary**, **fluency** and **comprehension**. Here follows five ways that you can develop these skills in your child and put them on track to becoming a successful reader. ### 1. Read rhymes Reading books that feature rhyme is one of the most effective ways of developing phonemic awareness in a child. Repetition is key to committing a letter, combination of letters or word into long term memory, and rhymes, by their very nature, have this effect. ### 2. Create...
Dec 06, 2012
How to Teach a Child Reading
With a wide array of reading resources touting different methods as the most effective to teach a child reading, it's often hard to know which is in fact the most effective. Different teaching styles notwithstanding, at the most fundamental level experts will agree that children need to be instructed in five key literacy areas in order to effectively learn to read: **phonemic awareness**, **phonics**, **fluency**, **vocabulary** and **comprehension**. The first area of literacy that kids need to master is phonemic awareness, that is, the understanding that words are made up of different sounds, called phonemes. These phonemes, or units of...