There’s a saying that education starts at home and if we were to look back at our own childhood memories, we can clearly pinpoint our parents or siblings as the ones who taught us a lot of things.
Children nowadays are immersed into a society wherein learning is gained through technological advancements, and while many of them learn through it magnificently, many educators are in a fearful state as the conventional method of reading is being completely ignored. If you’re a parent who wants to bring back the interest of reading but is lost on where to start, then this article will definitely aid you.
First, you must be aware of the reasons why you should promulgate reading to your kids at an early age. According to studies, reading will help kids recognize letters, comprehend that print represents the spoken word, realize the relationship of letters and sounds, widen their vocabulary and help them in enriching their oral communication skills.
Many analysts suggest that while it is you who will introduce reading to your kids, you must be around to do the activity. The most important thing here is your presence as it will be you who will maneuver the reading session.
If you have a kid who’s just 6-12 months old, it’s best that you start exposing them to your plan by simple techniques such as making eye contact, talking back and forth to him or her and even playing simple games such as peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake.
Once they reach one to two years of age, this is the right time to introduce them to books in their most physical sense, let them flip the pages and read the words out loud whenever your child points at something readable on the book.
For ages three to four, prepare yourself for reading a specific book over and over again to accentuate mastery and retention. Ask questions such as ‘What happens next?’ in stories that you know they know, point out numbers and letters, stress words in accordance to pictures and craft stories out of pictures you see in the book.
For four to five year old children, relate some of the stories to a simple action experienced by your child, encourage them to read you a story and let them point to letters to spell out simple words.
Aside from the technical aspect of reading, this very act will also let your kids prepare in sharing and interacting with other kids, exploration of things unknown to them such as animals, plants and the world in general, higher intellectual measures that can be beneficial once they grow up, establish self-confidence and create discipline.
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