Article Directory :: Reference & Education Articles Activities That Help Your Kid Learn to Read Copyright © 2010 Jose Rocha Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 19Oct2009 Word count: 514 Viewed: 89 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site Starting with online home schooling resources, moms and dads who desire to teach their kindergarten and preschool age children the fundamentals of learning can do so by utilizing tried and true activities that are geared towards shaping young minds. Cultivate Interest by Reading to Your Child As adults we take many aspects of reading and writing for granted. We may not even recall what steps were taken to get us to the point we are today. Chances are we learned how to read by being read to. Indeed, reading stories to your child is a great way to get them interested in books, letters and writing. Of course, books geared towards child learning development like those centered around the alphabet or numbers are key. That said, fun books focused on nursery rhymes and fairytales can also be educational because they capture the imagination of kindergarten children and toddlers alike. Remember, if you can?t get them engaged in educational concepts, you won?t have a lot of success teaching them to read. Sight Word Flash Activities Sight word association is one tool that can help a youngster learn to read fairly quickly. This is often implemented via the use of flash cards. Depending on the age of the child, you may wish to utilize cards with pictures on them or just the words themselves. Because kids are highly visual creatures, it is always best to start with flashcards with illustrations. Once they appear to understand that the image and the word are associated, switch to plain word cards. This will help them understand what the focus is, which is the words themselves, not the pictures. You know your child best, so introduce these concepts as quickly or as slowly as you see fit. Factoring Phonics into the Equation When you sing, read, engage in rhyming games or even talk to your child, you are actually exposing them to skills that aid them once they start learning to read. The phonics or auditory aspects of reading is one of the most important parts of teaching this kind of skill. You can read to children even before the can speak, which will expand their vocabularies and make them more receptive to phonics games in the future. In fact, most kids, when they are introduced to the phonic aspects of reading as babies, will comprehend language and instructions even if they themselves cannot tell you they understand. The three activities listed above are but the building blocks of teaching your child how to read and subsequently how to write. You will be able to add more comprehensive studies as your child?s knowledge expands. Above all, try to make learning fun and adopt an attitude that the potential to teach your child something new and exciting exists even outside of a home school class room. Life is a very good instructor as well, so when an opportunity arises to teach new concepts and ideas while out and about, utilize it. If you are patient and adopt the aforementioned paradigms, your kid will be reading in no time. Your child's development is important and here at child font, each lesson builds on skills from the previous lesson; home schooling has never looked brighter: http://www.childfont.com EasyPublish™ this article - publishers click here More articles by Jose Rocha

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