When You Start To Teach Your Child To Read You Need To Learn How To Teach Phonics
- Date: 2008-10-30 - Word Count: 483
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Phonics are very easy to learn, they are nothing to be intimidated about. We use phonic sounds every time we speak. When teaching phonics we have to match the phonic sound we say with the written phonic sound. It is that simple. When you are learning how to teach phonics you will need a phonic chart so you can work out the phonic written sounds and how to say them.
If you are new to phonics and what to teach your children I recommend this Montessori program as it explains how to turn phonics into words. Montessori teaching has been around for over a 100 years so it has passed the test of time and it is still used today in Montessori schools around the planet. With this system you have to spend some time with your children as it is a hands on system. You can't just show your child and leave them to learn by themselves.
I used the program to teach my daughter who was having problems with reading and now she is okay. But I did put the time in. I like the system as it makes use of sandpaper letters and it starts to teach words very early on in the lessons. Even sight words and non-phonic words are made up with sandpaper letters.
Synthetic phonics is another system that has been around for a long time and taught me to read many years ago. But the main difference between the two is with synthetic phonics the child learns all the phonic sounds before starting on words. I prefer to bring in words early on in the learning experience as the child can start to read easy books earlier.
Most children are brought up to recite the alphabet so when they start to learn to read phonics they have to relearn the sounds, as the phonics letters and combinations sound are different for the alphabet. When I teach phonics I try not to say the alphabet letter sounds that we all know. Actually there is no reason to learn the alphabet as we never use it for anything other than something to learn.
If you just learnt the phonics sounds life would be easier. You must tell your children when they start to learn to read phonics to forget the alphabet and start using the new sounds. It doesn't take long before your children realize the connection between the phonic sounds and words. After they realize this, phonics becomes easier and they start to look as words as sounds and they try to pronounce the word correctly.
A big problem when your children start to learn phonics is, they can read but they do not understand what they are reading. They love the mechanics of reading and can read very well. You have to explain the words and sentence meanings so your children will learn to love reading.
If you are new to phonics and what to teach your children I recommend this Montessori program as it explains how to turn phonics into words. Montessori teaching has been around for over a 100 years so it has passed the test of time and it is still used today in Montessori schools around the planet. With this system you have to spend some time with your children as it is a hands on system. You can't just show your child and leave them to learn by themselves.
I used the program to teach my daughter who was having problems with reading and now she is okay. But I did put the time in. I like the system as it makes use of sandpaper letters and it starts to teach words very early on in the lessons. Even sight words and non-phonic words are made up with sandpaper letters.
Synthetic phonics is another system that has been around for a long time and taught me to read many years ago. But the main difference between the two is with synthetic phonics the child learns all the phonic sounds before starting on words. I prefer to bring in words early on in the learning experience as the child can start to read easy books earlier.
Most children are brought up to recite the alphabet so when they start to learn to read phonics they have to relearn the sounds, as the phonics letters and combinations sound are different for the alphabet. When I teach phonics I try not to say the alphabet letter sounds that we all know. Actually there is no reason to learn the alphabet as we never use it for anything other than something to learn.
If you just learnt the phonics sounds life would be easier. You must tell your children when they start to learn to read phonics to forget the alphabet and start using the new sounds. It doesn't take long before your children realize the connection between the phonic sounds and words. After they realize this, phonics becomes easier and they start to look as words as sounds and they try to pronounce the word correctly.
A big problem when your children start to learn phonics is, they can read but they do not understand what they are reading. They love the mechanics of reading and can read very well. You have to explain the words and sentence meanings so your children will learn to love reading.
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