How does a 3-year-old child read so well with so much confidence, and does the child understand what she is reading?

Yes, you bet she understands what she is reading! Just as shown in the video, she reads the short story with confidence, and then proceeds on to read and answer all the comprehension check questions! Her mom is doing an amazing job teaching her with our program!

In over 10 years of teaching children to read and also helping parents to teach their children to read, a common question I get asked often (from parents that see our videos) is this: “does the child understand what he/she is reading?”

My answer to that is a resounding “YES!”

Reading and comprehension go hand in hand, and our program lessons have colorful and interesting short stories for reading practice, and all of our short stories also have “comprehension checks”, designed to help children better understand what they are reading.

This is a proven process that we follow in all of our lessons that help children become incredible readers and spellers, and this also helps them to develop their reading comprehension skills as well.

It’s not everyday that you see such a small child read so well, but we see it all the time at Children Learning Reading. The video here is one of the many videos we receive from happy and proud parents. This video is special because it also demonstrates that young children can understand what they are reading.

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Her mom sent me a message with the video:

“Yes, we are at lesson 16 now. we are doing 1 lesson per week though for the advanced program. It was a bit difficult for her at the start and she starts asking why different letter combinations are making the same sound. So we spend most of our time helping her understand.”

(They had completed our Phonics Foundations program (32 lesson) previously, and they are working on lesson #16 in our Advanced Phonics program.)

Learn more about our Phonics Foundations program here:


Teaching Phonics Sounds, Lesson And Plans To Children

Start by teaching your child the phonics sounds. You can select to instruct your kid in alphabetical order going fully, or you can teach several generally made use of consonant sounds and also vowels, and go from there.

How To Teach Children How To Read

The whole language method merely expects a youngster to “review” when presented analysis material, as well as by remembering sight words. The phonics approach is a bottom up approach where you show kids to check out in a rational as well as sequential order.

Why Is Teaching Phonemic Awareness Important?

Studies have located that phonemic understanding is the very best predictor of reading success in young youngsters. Research has likewise discovered that kids with a high degree of phonemic recognition progression with high analysis and also spelling accomplishments; nonetheless, some kids with reduced phonemic recognition experience difficulties in discovering to check out as well as lead to. Consequently, it is vital for parents to help their young youngsters establish good phonemic understanding.

Teaching Your Child to Read With Letter Names and Letter Sounds

So, you desire to show your child to review, yet prior to a youngster can find out to read, she or he should initially discover a minimum of several of the letters in the alphabet, their names, and also the audios that they represent. To be able to read, a kid must be able to acknowledge the letters, know the noise of the letters, and be able to acknowledge the letters quickly and state the noise without hesitation. There is plenty of conversation and also disagreement on whether it’s much better to teach youngsters using whole language programs or making use of techniques which include phonics as well as phonemic awareness directions.

A Tip To Teaching Phonemic Awareness To Children

Phonemic recognition is not something you’re birthed with, and it is a capability that’s gotten through repeated direct exposure to listening, speaking, and also analysis. As parents, there are many different strategies you can utilize to help your kids establish phonemic understanding such as playing simple word division or oral mixing games.