Tips to make your Child learn how to read

Reading is a skill that is considered essential for learning. This is why parents want to help develop their children’s reading skills as early as possible. It is important to note, though, that, like any other skill, developing reading skills takes time, and not all children are the same. The pace at which a child learns to read also depends on his or her readiness.

You can make the process easier — and maybe even more fun — by putting these tips into practice:

1. Read aloud to your child.
An expert says, "As a parent teacher myself, I have seen how the seemingly ‘simple’ act of reading aloud to my children every day has benefited them in so many ways — including helping them learn basic pre-reading and reading skills. These include direction (print goes from left to right), rhyming, concepts of print or how to handle books, and letter identification."

Jim Trelease, author of The New York Times bestseller The Read-Aloud Handbook, explains it perfectly:

“We read aloud to children for the same reasons we talk with them: to reassure; entertain; bond; inform; arouse curiosity; and inspire. But reading aloud goes further than conversation when it:

•    Conditions the child to associate reading with pleasure;
•    Creates background knowledge
•    Builds “book” vocabulary;
•    Provides a reading role model.”

So if you want your child to learn to read and love reading, read aloud to them every day — even if it’s just for 15 minutes.

2.Provide easy access to books.
Rosanne Unson, co-owner of The Learning Basket, says one of the things she learned under her diploma course in Language and Literacy Education at the UP Open University is the importance of making books available to children.

“Make books available and accessible everywhere. Having access to books makes them interested in it,” Unson shares. “It also teaches them how to handle books properly. The more they are exposed to books, the more they will get interested in reading.”

One way parents can do this is to dedicate a space or corner in their homes as their children’s “book corner” or “library.” If you can, provide bookshelves that your child can reach, and fill them with age-appropriate children’s books. Even children as young as 2 years old will love “reading” their favorite books in their own “library.”

3.Choose books appropriate for your child’s reading level.

4. Make learning to read fun.

5.Make books “come alive.”

6.Incorporate play into your child’s learning-to-read routine.

7.Teach your child to “find” letters everywhere.

8.Read. 

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