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Easy Guide for Teaching Toddler to Read!
According to a study, 37 percent of children arrive at kindergarten without the skills necessary for lifetime learning. This means you need to put in extra effort in your toddler’s academic journey.
Do you want to kick start your toddler’s reading process? If yes, The Artes School presents this step-by step guide to ease your life. Teaching toddler to read is not a piece of cake but here’s how you can go about it.
1. Sing Along:
You remember your nursery rhymes till date, right? Such is the power of jingles. Singing is perhaps the most fun way for you to incubate pheromonic awareness in your toddler.
Are rhymes and rhythms all fun? No, toddlers notice a great deal of sounds and syllables while singing along. You should not shy away from rhythmically clapping along for a better breakdown of syllables.
Teaching toddler to read sounds playful, right? Definitely! Just sing in a chorus and witness your toddler’s literacy skills develop manifolds!
2. Make Crafty Playcards:
Kids’ reading time can be made interesting only if you have the right stationery and resources at disposal! Don’t have time to make fancy placards? That’s okay. Simple word cards would do just fine!
To make the kids’ reading session more interactive, write three letter words on word cards. Hold up three fingers and ask your child to identify the three sounds.
Sounds simple, right? But this, exercise does wonders! It teaches some great decoding skills to your toddler.
3. Pin Around Printouts:
Are you interested in interior decoration? Then, this idea is your best bet! Stop asking, “How to teach my kid to read?”. Because you can do it only through a few clicks!
Enrich your walls with a lot of printed resources. Why? Because this creates an open opportunity for your toddler to visualize and engage with the text.
So, the next time a parent asks you, ““How to teach my kid to read?”, gift them a lot of charts, posters, labels and cut outs.
This exercise will engrave letter symbols and respective sounds in your toddler’s mind. These print out are also good conversation starters! Come up with rhyming words together!
4. Step up the Reading Game:
Who knew teaching phonics to toddlers would be fun and games! All toddlers love playing games, no? Join them in!
Games are super important! Play around at home or even outdoors. Present new learning games to your toddler, every now and then.
These games will help him/her lister to sounds, and more importantly, manipulate them! Games are a cool way of giving him confidence of identifying beginning and ending sounds.
5. Play with Letters:
By this time, your toddler is a pro at pointing out starting and ending phonic. But what about the middle vowels? Honestly, they are a pain!
Here is the trick. Invest in letter magnets. Place them on a visible place. Categorize the vowels and consonants.
In no time, you will notice your toddler spelling out words! Also, don’t be surprised seeing him/her moving around the magnets to make new words.
The Artes School has been trusted by parents for honing the literacy skills of toddlers. You might be wondering why? Simply because we do not only provide books to teach toddlers to read.
Instead, we take a holistic approach and employ all these techniques, resources, and skills to facilitate young readers. Along with books to teach toddlers to read, we use the right technology and a lot of patience!
Support our reading program at home. Happy reading!