As your child is learning their sight words, I highly recommend creating either a Word Wall (which I talk about inthis blog post) or using a Word and Sound Dictionary. As your child learns new sight words, they can add them to their word wall or dictionary, building a wonderful reference...
Whether you are considering an alternative method of schooling, such as homeschooling, or simply want to give your child a head start, you can teach your child to read right now. But let’s be honest: the thought of teaching your child to read can be intimidating. There are so many var...
both in context and in isolation, is it important to sight word mastery. There are many fun and interesting ways to expose a child repeatedly to a word
For example, a good decodable book (that actually sounds like a story) will need words likethe. You will need to teach early readers to recognize the wordthe. And yet you can STILL call attention to the “th,” which is not irregular at all. How to introduce sight words Assuming your ...
This is where the sight words you started teaching your child early on start to come into play. In learning their sight words, they’re also learning how different sounds work together to create a word. They’re also learning...
Come to China three years ago. Teach English in Shanghai. Frank BT Sydney Australia come to Shanghai a years old. LAN Chinese in fu dan university. Hello, my name is Angela nice to meet you. I'm hello, nice to meet you too. Your accent sounds American. Are you from America. No,...
Here are 10 simple steps to teach your child to read at home: 1. Use songs and nursery rhymes to build phonemic awareness Children's songs and nursery rhymes aren't just a lot of fun –the rhyme and rhythm help kids to hear the sounds and syllables in words, which helps them learn ...
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On that same path, teach your child the sounds of individual letters and how they combine to form words. Phonics-based reading programs can be helpful in teaching the relationship between letters and sounds. Start with simple phonetic words and gradually introduce more complex sounds. There are ...
For example, I often teach my serious memory students to prepare what they want to memorize early in the week, practice encoding it during the middle of the week, and then practice decoding the information during the end of the week. Obviously, this particular suggestion can be modified in...