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How to Teach Your Child to Read

Teaching your child to read is an adventure. But it’s an adventure that comes with a wonderfully clear map. Charlotte Mason outlined three simple and logical steps to get your child reading with confidence. Let’s start at the beginning and talk through her three elevations for learn decipher. Level 1: played with symbols and sounds This height is where your child learns the symbols and the seems they shape precisely by playing.

Nothing formal at this item. If the child isn’t interested in playing with a letter or sound, we don’t push it. We require this elevation to be very natural. Just as the child learns about animals and their tones incidentally–through works and life-time ordeals and play–that’s how he should learn about words and their bangs. Keep it low key.

Level 2: word-building Once the child knows the notes and the clangs they establish, he starts putting those notes and sounds together to build words. This is the point where basic phonics comes in, but again, this stage is still very informal.

Even this stage of learning to read short-vowel words and long-vowel statements, etc., should be as play to the child. Once he knows a couple of hundred statements, and has this idea of word-building down, he moves on to level 3: actual reading lessons.

You might think, “What a time! I thought we were doing construe readings all along.” But when Charlotte Mason talked about learning exercises, she represented* predicting* instructions: reading decisions and clauses and assemblies. This stage is where more formal exercises are begun, but even then the lessons are multi-sensory and are remained very short: 10 hours maximum.

Now, we have gears to help you walk through the process.

1: Playing with Note and Phone This equipment gives you lots of informal recreations& activities to help your child learn the notes and the rackets they offset through toy. 2: Statements I Can Improve Items lots of plays& activities to help your child start arrange those words and sounds together to build words.

3: From Statements to Books Gives you multi-sensory, short instructions just as Charlotte Mason detailed them in her writings. This kit will help your child move from reading individual oaths to reading decisions and paragraphs and entire notebooks. So the next question is how do you know where your child is in this process?

Well, let’s walk through the levels. First, Does your child know the letters and the hubbubs they offset? Perhaps your child doesn’t know any of the symbols or the rackets more. That’s fine; you will start at the beginning. Maybe your child knows some of the notes but not all of them, start at degree 1.

If he knows the uppercase words but not the lowercase, he would be right here. If he knows his notes but hasn’t learned the music’s they induce yet, height 1 would still be the best fit. Now, he doesn’t have to know every possible phone the words might draw in every situation. He only needs to have a good seize of the central seems at this level.

If your child knows the characters and the main reverberates they become, look at level 2. At this status he are likely to be learning to read names. Can he predicted short-vowel, three-letter names? Can he read long-vowel names? How about names with vowel compounding’s or coalesces? If you asked no to any of those questions, you will want to start at tier 2 with word-building.

Obviously, we don’t expect the child to be able to read every short-vowel or long-vowel word there is at this level, but he should be able to build and read a couple of hundred names before he’s ready for rank 3. If their own children is predicting short-lived messages in environmental matters around him, or perhaps he’s trying to read simple easy-reader-type books that use exclusively short statements, stage 3 would be the best fit for him. Level 3 is also good for older children who are reluctant books. Perhaps your child time needs more confidence and some gentle, supporting instructions to help him gain fluency.

I’ve talked with lots of homeschool parents who have use Kit 3 to help a loath reader and its been a good fit for that situation.

So there “you’ve had” the overview to seeing how Charlotte Mason approached educating children to read: start with learning letters and sounds through frisk; when they’re ready for more, move on to word-building, but still through informal activities and play. And ultimately, when “their children’s knows a couple of hundred paroles, you can move to actual reading tasks, but keep them short and multi-sensory.

I’ll talk more about each of those levels in separate videos and illustrate what a construe exercise would look like with Charlotte’s brilliant approaching to schooling learn.

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