My Kids Learn to Read

I’m sure most parents don’t think about the process of learning to read until they have children of their own at home grabbing for books. As a teacher myself, I cannot tell you how many times parents have come up to me asking questions about how they can teach their children to read at home. My response to each of them is always the same: learning to read is a process composed of various skills and strategies,…

Before your child reaches the age of 10, one of the most important things they will accomplish is learning how to read; in fact, children begin acquiring the skills they need to master reading from birth. An infant as young as 6 months old can already distinguish between the sound of their mother tongue and a foreign language, and by the age of 2 they have mastered enough word sounds in their native language to produce over…

As a teacher, I know that teaching children how to read is no easy task, so it’s no surprise that there are plenty of products claiming to have cracked the teaching to read code. One product in particular, “Children Learning Reading”, states it has a proven formula to enable parents to develop and improve the reading capabilities of their children. With such a strong claim, I had to see for myself if this product really does work,…

Contrary to what you may think, literacy does not start when your child starts school, but much earlier! From birth, babies and children begin to gather the skills they will need to read. Between the ages of 3 and 5 are critical for reading growth, and by 5 years old, some children are already in kindergarten. As a teacher I can confidently say that the best way to instill a love of reading is to simply read…