My son was reading before he went to kindergarten. They tried to teach him to read with phonics. Didn't work because he already knew how to read.
If you want your child to read, and read well, before he/she starts school here is what needs to be done.
Read to your child every night before bedtime. There are books available that have stories for every day of the year.
If you do that, I guarantee that your child will be reading to you before he/she starts school.
I and my wife did that, and it works. Plus, an unbreakable bond is developed between you and your child.
Read to your child every night before bedtime. There are books available that have stories for every day of the year.
If you do that, I guarantee that your child will be reading to you before he/she starts school.
Agree 100%!!!
SO very true!! It also opens up the whole world for them, because being able to read means they can teach themselves anything they want to learn.
We continued reading to the kids well into their early middle school years. Hubby read "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" to the older boys. Both of them got and stayed interested in the fantasy genre for years.
When the younger two came along, and got to be that same age, I read the "Redwall" series to them. It was a fun time, reading to them each night, and they enjoyed it because I would take on the varied British accents in the book; the moles and voles spoke in a Cockney accent and the hares had a British military, 'what? what?' pattern of speech. Both of them turned out to be voracious readers, as well.