vvaneesa
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Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
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« on: August 03, 2016, 04:27:25 PM » |
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Whether you are home schooling your child, or simply an enthusiastic pro-active parent who wants to give their child a head start, here are three very good advantages to teaching your child to read at home.
1. One-on-one tutoring
When a child learns to read in a class, they will be sharing their reading teacher with about 20 other children. This means that in a 30-minute lesson, your child will be getting one-on-one attention from that teacher for about one minute. Now consider that if you teach your child to read at home, they will be getting your full, one-on-one attention for the duration of their lesson, be it for 5 minutes or a whole hour.
2. Keep them interested for much longer
If a child is forced to read anything that does not interest them, something that should take 5 minutes to learn can take you an hour. My son balked at the idea of singing rhymes, and although many books offer reading content that is good for teaching the sounds of words, things like "Zac is a rat" and "the cat sat on the mat" not only did not interest him, but actually turned him off reading for a long time.
However, when I started to include words into his reading lessons that he liked (things like aliens, werewolves, trolls, bugs, etc) he was suddenly very interested in his reading. When we bought books for him to read, I allowed him to choose his own books. His very first books were on Winnie the Pooh, and he would read them all the time without any encouragement from me.
3. Avoid the reading wars
By choosing to teach your child to read at home you can avoid the reading wars altogether.
What are the reading wars you ask?
Well in most English speaking countries the school system and other educators are engaged in a great battle over whether it's best to teach a child to read using phonics (sounding out words) or sight reading (look-and-say). Fortunately for the home schooling or home school preschooling parent there needn't be a choice.
A child needs both methods to achieve perfect reading ability. By using the sight reading (look-and-say) method first to ignite your child's interest in reading and to build their confidence and then by introducing phonics (sounding out words), your child can be reading by themselves in 4 months.
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