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One of the best ways to do that is to read the most you can and to be sincerely interested. I was raised in a Christian environment, I thought I was skeptical of my faith when I was growing up. When in reality I never really read anything by an Atheist. I only read Christians quoting Atheists to disprove what they said, or Christians responding to claims that Atheists made against them.

A study which included almost participants who died at an average age of 89 discovered that those that were engaging in mental activities such as reading experienced slower memory decline than those patients that did not read. Another study from the PLOS journal showed that self-help books can help prevent depression. Since depression causes hopelessness people stop believing in the capability of change, self-help books boost the parts of the brain that are associated with happiness, rather focusing on that which is ahead and your ambitions http: This is a hard one to believe, honestly.

I love my coffee. And I love my tea. Books are great as well. You probably feel me on this one. The more you read the more information you add into your brain. This information proves helpful in dire circumstances when you need to make last minute decisions, or decide between the lesser of two evils for president. Unlike watching TV or listening to the radio, reading stimulates your brain to be able to focus on tasks better. I like to write book recommendations quite a lot actually.

AND If you found this article helpful, click the. I write to keep you thinking and to keep me thankful and reflective. Cheers cheers cheers and until next time,. The Writing Cooperative is brought to you by —. Try it for free! Sign in Get started. I have an 11 year old and he still struggling with reading.

Have you asked him if letters, words or lines seem to waver or change places? Can he remember what it says when he or you read each page? Try coloured overlays especially yellow or even blue or red. Hi I have a six year old brother that me and my parents are trying to teach can you help with six year old tips for him.

Making reading fun and exciting is the best way for children to want to learn to read. They will want to work at it and consider it a fun activity. This will allow them to have a love for books and reading anyhting in general as they grow older making them more successful in school and then life. Click here for the best tips http: The most attractive part I found in this link is we must read first parents. Hmm is anyone else experiencing problems with the images on this blog loading?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Great article, check out learn2kids. We found some really great ideas at http: My son who is around 2 and half years old now has started writing. He can write all the alphabets and words he remembers he knows spelling of around 60 words. He just has trouble writing N, M and S. Please tell me what is the average age by which kids start writing. Has my son picked up the skill little earlier? How can I further enhance his skill? Yes, that is pretty early although all children do things in their own timing. He must have remarkable fine motor skills.

Let him do it because he enjoys it. I am a single parent who has just recently started reading heavily with my 5 year old. He is aware of the sounds and has a few of the basic words down, but struggles with reading. He truly enjoys the last part of the night where we open the books together and I want that feeling to last forever.

I greatly appreciate the advice and will completely back off of my son as he still has time to grow into reading whole stories. Due to a late birthday he is currently in Pre-K so I think the pressure of wanting him to do well in school, being a single parent, and my own childhood misfortunes are having a negative impact on me. I plan to regroup for tomorrow nights reading and take things a lot slower with him and make sure that he knows that he is doing a great job. Thank you so much for you have saved me from me in a way.

After going over a number of the blog articles on your web page, I really like your technique of blogging. I book marked it to my bookmark site list and will be checking back soon. Please visit my website as well and tell me your opinion. Have just started some early reading skills with my granddaughter aged 2 and three quarters. I have read to her and introduced her to books from just days old! Recently she has been pointing to words and asking either what they say or do. I must admit that I am a retired teacher of support for learning here! She is not really ready for sounds yet although has some, but picture recognition, word shape, comprehension and memory will aid her to decode when she is ready.

Books are a magical time to spend with your child, from a very early age, bath, fabric and basic board books are a great way to start. I came across your page quite by accident as I was so frustrated with trying to get my son to read. He received absolutely no instruction in Kinder and now, in first grade, is terribly behind and I am at a loss as to how to help him. He will see a word, can sound it out, but if you turn the page, it becomes a totally new word. He can spell his word wall words like a champ, can write dictation like a hero, but reading?

He is failing miserably. I have just purchased your book, but it seems as though I have failed him already as we did NONE of this prior to school as I had no idea about any of this. How can I help him learn to read at this late stage in the game and save him from failing first grade? First of all, I would recommend concentrating on making reading fun and enjoyable for both of you. Spend more time reading with him than having him read to you…model proper inflection and fluency.

Read engaging stories together. I would also start to work on sight words and word families. He will get it! Thank you for your response and suggestions. There are times that we both feel frustrated and lost. I will read your book and being to implement the suggestions from your book and email. Since this is a whole year later…. However, I just want to say as an educator of 15 years who has a reading specialist endorsement, that reading is developmental—and each child is in a different part of that developmental process.

Hi, thank you very much! Reading your posts really enlightened me. You have advises that change my view on how to teach my son. Most of the times spent teaching my son reading made me impatient, my son saw me very frustrated which I felt he became frustrated as well. And I felt so sorry every after sessions we had. I was the one so pressured. Please pray for me as well… Thank you. Thank you very much for this, Jenae. And we do not have TV. So we build Lego, we read books and we draw. I love this post. I agree with so many things in this post… comprehension is more important than blurting out words..

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This little phrase changed everything for me: My daughter is three and a half. She picked up the alphabet almost instantly, Alphabet song, if I remember right. Except q and x, she knows what they are just has trouble pronouncing them. She is improving significantly since I started three days ago on sounding out letter words. My question would have to be, where do I guide her next?

Like you said, learning should be made fun whenever possible, which is the approach I try to use. What is your opinion? It takes the basics of this post and digs much, much deeper. I think you would greatly benefit from reading it. I wanted my kid to do home schooling, and my DW and I are his teachers. This article really helps us to achieve our goal.

It goes into much greater detail than I am able to in this post: It is very important that parents especially the mother has the initiative to be so attached with the needs of her kid. At an early age it is very important to enhance their mind to many possibilities. Reading them a book at an early age can help them analyze things, so even if they cannot still read when they reach the certain age where they should learn to read it is easy for them to get things clearly.

Thank you so much!!! I learned as I read the 10 ways how to teach my child to read…so from now on I practice my self to read them a story book…. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Magento understands that customers look forward for something more than functionality of the website, and keeping this in mind, Magento has a number of services.

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The beginners must validate when the web hosting server has options for an expansion plan inside the future when your business plans magnify. I really love this post. I have a 2yr old and have been trying to find how to teach her to read at home, aside what she learns at school. My son loves it. I have been so interested, now that my children are adults, in the methods of teaching children to learn, while also being concerned about this. They have been so streamlined, and I have to say so limited to books and electronic teaching tools.

I could not help but disagree that children should begin reading at about 6 years old. It is something that I would like to pursue and write a book about why they need not be pushed to learn how to read at a younger age. My children did learn to read at a much earlier age. One of my children, and only one of them is gifted. It had nothing to do with their skills at having so much fun from the time they started crawling with the exception that I simply made my own program for them. It was a game to them. Now that they are adults, they thank me for their success in life.

How rewarding as a mom. I also taught them basic math when they were toddlers. All taught with tools from the outdoors. I worked, so many times it was difficult, but sooo worth the effort. I believe that the bonding time and a lot of love is what made it happen. Let me know if you have an interest in pursuing a conversation sometime on how I did it.

My baby is now in Med School and will go on to Anesthesiology, so I feel competent to speak from experience at how she arrived, from infancy, to who she is today. Best Wishes, Karen Fega. I now have a one year old daughter. What is your opinion on this? Another great free tool my mom used to teach me to write is by drawing shapes on the sidewalk with paint brushes soaked in water. My mom recently wrote a book explaining how she taught me to read at 3 and my sister at 2. In April I graduate with my doctorate and even in my doctoral program my friends commented on how quickly I read and assimilate information.

I have a 7 year old with autism. He is in public school autism class first grade. When he was a toddler all he wanted to do was listen to books. Now I cannot sit him down. He literally fights me and my 3 year old who is homeschooling makes it harder because she gets jealous and throws fits during the time I try to make him sit down and look at a book. He is nowhere near reading now. I am thinking about teaching reading to children between the ages of five to twelve years old and would like to know of a book I can order that can help me. Thanks for your time.

I was in the same type of position you were! I totally understand where you are coming from…. There are a lot of great helpful tips and ideas listed here but my son learned how to spell AND write his name when he was 1. This summer I am going to get serious about teaching him how to read and I do believe it is possible. Hello every body, my name is Phillip and I just want to let you all know that having a broken heart is not an easy thing, but no matter how bad your situation may be, I want to let you all know that there is a way to get your ex chasing you around again wanting to be with you, because this is exactly what I did when my girlfriend left me for someone else and I am happy today because she is back with me and all these happened with the help of a spell caster Esango Priest.

You can contact him via email: Different Region The Playstation Store is operated differently on different regions. Next, you will need compatible drivers in order for it to work with your PC. Great list, and wonderful summary. I particularly love the emphasis on making it fun and creative and incorporated into different aspects of life. I used a very similar list when documenting my experiences teaching my kids to read at howitaughtmykidstoread. Also, I have shared your web site in my social networks! My daughter is going into the 1st grade. When I read to her she is lazy.

She will not sound out the word, and sometimes I have to fight with her to read. What can I do? I also feeling helpless to teach to my girls child, she is very stubborn and not obeying any of my advice, reason being that we both are working and she left with her grand parents and felt alone till when she is not completed her 4th birthday and now she is totally out of our command.

We love her but how to teach, is a mystery for us. I just discovered this post and I love all the ideas listed in it, especially 5. As a teacher, I loved using multiple intelligence strategies to help plan lessons that would engage my students and help them retain the concepts that were being taught. I now have fun finding and using such strategies to teach my grandsons their letter sounds, and reinforcing the concepts they are learning in their preschool and first grade classrooms.

Thanks so much for this informative article! Fantastic tip, thank you so much, I will start doing this right away on how to get them to do what you want effectively. I struggle still knowing what to do in many situations. We have rules in our home that I feel like are so simple, but my six year old breaks them constantly. I think a few more examples of dialogue would be really helpful.

Also your website loads up very fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host? I wish my web site loaded up as fast as yours lol. My son is 17 years old and he does not enjoy reading at all. I have realised that he can read but cannot comprehend to what he is reading and so is bored.

Please help or give me some suggestions which will help me to motivate him to read and comprehend what he is reading. I know i have missed those formative years of his childhood. But i believe nothing is impossible. You might look up some lists online for books for teenage boys. Or perhaps find some books that have been made into movies and encourage him to read the book and then watch the movie.

Then you can talk about the differences between the two which is a good comprehension exercise. I would also encourage you to find some books on tape that he can listen to. My husband really enjoys these and it is easier for him to comprehend when listening rather than when reading.

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Anyway, thanks so much for the article and see you around. I found them very well explained, succinct and straight forward. I began reading to my granddaughter when she was 2 months old. By 1 year, she knew the correct way to hold a book and turn the pages front to back. At 2 years 6 months — she began reading! She reads at least 10 books a day. Not every child has the opportunity to be read to, or even access to books. Will your book be going on sale again any time soon?

I just discovered your site and missed it by a few weeks. It is still available…it is just full-price. I only run the half-off sales two at the most three times per year. Sorry you missed it! I really take a huge advantage of it, while I can. I encourage my little child to learn things about life, she is 2 years old, and she knows almost how to speak Spanish very well, I play the piano for her, I read books about kids stuff to her, and so she will become a lover of knowledge just as her father does.

I would say give it time. In a year or two, she will be better able to focus. Then you can make it a game and she will be even more engaged. Here are some ideas: TahnksChandra and Jenae, I learn another idea in dealing with my kids. Have a nice day ahead ladies. I am a head teacher of a school and I have children who can not read or slow readers. I need help so that these kids can read a a better rate. I wish I practiced this type of early reading with my son.

He is 13, still no interest in reading books. I taught my kids to read with an amazing method which is a lot of fun for both kids and parents. You can get more information about it on: By 1 year, she knew the right thanks to hold a book and switch the pages front to back. I have a 5 and 4 month old daughter who is really interested in learning to read.

I love these steps and they help A LOT. Would I look into a program like Pathways to Reading? Or just keep it simple and focus on basics? What about ABC mouse? She knows all her letters and most of the sounds though she sometimes forgets and seems to enjoy sounding out words together, but maybe only 2 or 3 before she gets bored. I would suggest making reading aloud and the enjoyment that comes from that the 1 priority for now. One way parents can help increase the number of sight words is to make sure the closed captioning option on their television is always switched on and English subtitles on DVDs are used.

I have more on why this is important on my blog: It is good to teach your child the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. You can do games such as having your child try to add different letters before the word family to form different words such as cat, mat, sat etc. Also have your child match pictures to words. You can also use http: It is also good to teach your child high frequency words.

Model reading and also read with your child. Closed Captioning and same-language subtitles are an excellent way to increase the number of sight words a child has. I do not even understand how I stopped up right here, however I assumed this put up used to be great. I know they helped us out a lot. Reading early really works.

Popo would flip through book pages way before she could crawl even. I thought it would be too advanced but we read a few pages a day and she asks to read it at bed time. Alphabet games and crafts will be great to continue learning letter sounds. It feels accessible to everyone.

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Hey Jenae, a bug thanks to you. We have a 6 years old boy. I appreciate this article so much as a librarian who gets asked all the time how to get kids to read. Thanks for these ideas! And he loves when I read to him. I feel like he might love learning basic words which letters form the words he already likes to say , and then he would REALLY love reading. Most of these ideas are advanced for him, but I gives me some ideas for moving forward.

If you want children to read and have fun doing it , just buy them an adventure or video game. Text adventure games, visual novels, choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks etc. Especially rough contact sports. The website loading speed is incredible. Furthermore, The contents are masterpiece. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Still, the posts are very brief for newbies.

May you please extend them a bit from subsequent time? Thanks for the post. Thank you a lot and I am looking ahead to touch you. Will you please drop me a e-mail? Such good ways to make reading fun for kids! Being a working mom, I home-school my kids and always make sure to read a bed time story to them. Thanks Jenae for sharing this post. I will surely start using these tips and make the reading and bonding time more fun. My brother recommended I may like this website.

He was entirely right. This submit actually made my day. Thank you for this.. When I was teaching my kids to read, I tried to find books with only short words, thinking that they would make it easier to learn reading. Could I write one? What about using words only 3-letters long? Then what about 2-letter words? That would be a challenge, but I listed the 2-letter words and made a story. I published it as a free ebook so that anyone may access it. I hope this book, along with material on this websites and from other sources, may help your child or student learn to read.

Thanks for sharing these great tips. I like to read bed time stories to my daughter and sometimes I read inspirational stories like the ones from Chicken Soup for The Soul series. My girl loves learning and she seems to be very interested. I guess this is a way to keep her vocabulary growing and improve her reading skill too.

I have read to my daughter since she was about 2 months old. We have made reading a habit most nights and sometimes dad even joins us. Is there a way I can help her? While playing we could learn just letters. She just guesses the whole words never trying to read them.

Once I stumbled the story, very similar to ours. Their review sounded like a fairy tale, but we decided to try, for that was like the last chance. I felt disappointment for I was not capable to teach my kid how to read. And the mirracle occurred! Ann started to read!

Now wile we are 5 we can read rather big and serious texts. Sometimes she asks to let her to read bedtime story to her younger brother who is just 6 months old. We hope he will start reading much earlier for the course promisses potential even for kids younger than years old. Teaching a student via songs and poems can be a great idea. My father apply this strategy in his school. Child Care Courses will also be beneficial. But from my point of view, from the day your baby is born, you are a teacher of spirit.

If you create an atmosphere of trust, openness, non-judgement, and acceptance, those qualities will be absorbed as the qualities of spirit. In a perfect world, parenting would come down to one sentence: Show only love, be only love. But in the world we all cope with, children grow up to face much non-loving behavior, primarily outside the home but sometimes within it as well. Rather than worry about whether you embody enough love to qualify as a spiritual teacher, look upon spirituality as a skill in living, since that is what it is. I believe in imparting these skills as early as possible by whatever means a child can understand.

It is definitely a steady and at times slow progression and it will be different for every child.

I consider a child a reader when they no longer have to sound out the majority of words and can read steadily with inflection. Slow and steady wins the race! We may not move quickly but the kids are happy and everything clicks at some point. When that happens, a non-reader can turn into a bookworm overnight.

Me I used eBookids. I agree with much of this, but I find children can be taught basic sounds and words early. It is fun, kids enjoy it if it is properly presented and they are confident when they start school. Before he started school last September he used to utter some sentences in English , but his use of English has been reduced since then. Any other suggestions which may be useful. Any suggestions are welcome. I have bought a game called Zingo to work on sight words. As a teacher and parent of a toddler, I find this blog very informative!

If you have some time, would you please check the links and update? There are many broken ones. Thank you for this post. Just curious where you got or where I could find the yellow book caddies in the pictures above. It is good to know that helping children to understand different genres of books can help them read better. It would be helpful to show them the difference between nonfiction and make-believe. Something else that I have heard to be effective is to make sure the child knows what is going on in the book by using pictures and small discussions.

Hi, my name is Chenny. How can I start teaching him to love reading now? Hi My name is Melissa, my daughter is about 16 months now, any good online program anyone could recommend? I love most of what you have advised. Sight reading is the main cause of dyslexia. There is really no need to memorize any words by sight. Take a look at those in the bingo game pictured. ALL of them can be easily sounded out. I have just discovered your site, really interesting! You have won a follower!

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Only the ones that do not follow the rules of phonics are the ones I have her memorize, like; one, two, though. I had left my son without learning i didnt know how to handle it and now he s 6 yrs old but he s feeling very difficult to study Can u please suggest what idea can I manipulate and do his work easy.

A useful article, although with learning to read we have never had problems. Having 3 children I can say this: It is necessary to remember that the child perceives the world through movement. What about the memorization of letters? Draw huge chalk letters on the asphalt or stick on the sand, walk along them along with the child. Make letters of dough, wire, plasticine, etc. Maximize the ability of the child to perceive the world through the senses.

I was trying to find an effective and easy way to make my child read at an early age, after a long time I found one of the best methods to make a 2yr old child read. U may also have a look at this — kidzlover. There is a steady progression in the development of reading ability over time.

The best time for children to start learning to read is at a very young age — even before they enter pre-school. Once a child is able to speak, they can begin developing basic reading skills. Very young children have a natural curiosity to learn about everything, and they are naturally intrigued by the printed texts they see, and are eager to learn about the sounds made by those letters. You will likely notice that your young child likes to look at books and thoroughly enjoys being read to.

They will even pretend to behave like a reader by holding books and pretend to read them. My sister keeps complaining about her daughter being a slow learner, the daughter is 6 years. I have just forwarded her this link. It will help her tremendously. Thanks for sharing this quality information with us. I really enjoyed reading. Will surely going to share this URL with my friends. I love your point 3. Indeed, we need to set good examples for our children to encourage them the reading habit. Thank you for the reminder. I find this video also helps getting our children to read too hope you find it useful — http: Another thing I think is important to remember is to not get frustrated.

It will definitely give you a new level of appreciation for people who teach children as their profession. When my son first learned his letters about 2 , we took our time in parking lots. The letters are fairly random so it gives some variety. Gets number recognition as well. Your email address will not be published.

How much you read to your child is completely up to you and your family, but I suggest you aim to read at least books a day, even while your child is very young. As she gets a little older and can sit for longer stretches of time, make it a family goal to read together for at least minutes each day. These sounds are made up of consonants, short vowels, long vowels, and digraphs. Learning the rules of phonics is simply a tool that helps a child learn to decode and spell. I used the Pathways To Reading program in the classroom as my phonemic awareness and phonics program and loved it!

As children decode words with more frequency, they will become more proficient at automatically identifying that word. When I taught first grade, I used to buy little finger puppets that my students could use to point to the letters as they were decoding. This was a huge hit and made this process so much fun! Because of this, they must be memorized. However, sight words must be memorized in order for your child to become a fluent reader.

Encourage your children to develop…. Comments Love this post!! Thank you for all you do, I always enjoy reading your posts! Sorry I meant to PRE load the vocab to get the child familiar with the wording in the text. Thank you for such a wonderful post! Here are just a few: I hope parents take note of this: Thanks and keep up the wondeful site.

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I too have a passion to teach reading! Just check it out! Hi, Very Good post.. Thank you for sharing this post. Very informative post and helpful. I really admired your post…however I was thinking if you can help me with my teaching before the coming start… Eager to hear from you.

I will try some of your tips definitely. Dear Could you please send me the link that shows different ways to read a book i was looking for it, and I cant find it so plese help Thanks for advance and best regrards from Mexico. Thanks for article 10 steps to read. Good ide and inspirations. I want to lean my little brother how to spelling the word and read he have 7 years.

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It took me a very long time to find the perfect solution. I found this site called childrenlearningreading. To your success -Cheers. Thanks for all of the great tips listed here. I do find a lot of them helpful. Thanks so much, Julie!