“Reading Programs: Does Your Child Need One To Learn To Read?”
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Reading programs are everywhere. You can find books, tapes,
videos, and online programs. If you live in a city there is
likely a tutorial program available as well. As a parent you
know that learning to read is one of the most important skills
your child will have to master in Early Childhood and you feel
rather overwhelmed by the challenge.
It is only natural to think it would be a lot easier to buy a
program and use it to teach your child to read. However there
are two big problems with this method. First of all, not all
programs work as effectively as they profess. For every
"satisfied" customer you see used in the promotional material
you do not know the number of dissatisfied customers there
might be lurking behind the scenes. Secondly, you do not know
if this particular program will be an effective match for your
child's learning style. The program might work fine for some
kids but not for others. Learning to read is not a
one-size-fits- all proposition. Most professional reading
teachers employ a mixed-bag approach that uses a combination of
methods and techniques.
Either one of these problems is a major concern when you think
about the financial cost of most of these programs not to
mention the time commitment involved. Plus, you could invest a
lot of time (and money) and in fact negatively impact your
child's reading progress.
The real truth (that these so-called educational companies do
not want you to know) is that there is a wealth of free
information available to help you teach your child to read and
very often employing a simple common sense approach can be more
effective than all those expensive reading programs combined.
Step one: Make sure your child knows the alphabet (both visual
recognition and the sounds the letter makes)
Step two: Develop print awareness and literacy by reading books
and other materials (signs, greeting cards, handwritten notes,
etc.) so children understand that books are read from front to
back, lines from left to right, and pages from top to bottom
Step three: Go beyond step one to develop understanding of
beginning letter sounds and then add in ending sounds (rhymes).
Show how many words can be "decoded" by breaking them into
beginning, middle, and ending sounds
Step four: Teach sight words with various exercises and regular
repetition
Step five: Help put it all together by making sentences with
the words they know or can decode and then introduce books
(carefully selected or made up by you and the child) that
include those words and sentences
If you employ these five simple steps then you can teach your
child to read without purchasing an expensive reading program.
You can make your own materials at home, glean materials to use
from the internet, or borrow materials from your local public
library. You do not need to spend one dime on these free
reading lessons except whatever you choose to purchase to build
your child's personal library of Books .
About The Author: Deanna Mascle shares more tips about Reading
Programs in her blog at http://teachyourchi ldtoread. info as
well as her newsletter Preschoolers Learn More at
http://preschoolers learnmore. com
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