| In today's modern world, reading is a must have | | | | to find out something. Usually it is the meaning of |
| skill so you should start the teaching of reading as | | | | a new word or phrase or something like that. |
| early as possible. Without reading skills your child | | | | Another very important part to do with the |
| will get left behind and that is it. So it is very | | | | teaching of reading is phonics. Phonics are the key |
| important that your children learn to read and that | | | | to decoding the written word and once your child |
| usually means you have to start the teaching of | | | | knows phonics they can read nearly everything |
| reading. | | | | but they will not always understand what they |
| One of the most important parts of learning to | | | | are reading. That is why you must answer |
| read is to do what your parents did and what | | | | questions. |
| your grandparents did. And that is read aloud in | | | | I have found - for problems readers especially - |
| bed as often as possible. But you must follow the | | | | that Montessori phonics with her sandpaper letters |
| words with a pencil or your finger so your child | | | | is, one of the best ways to learn phonics and |
| can see what word makes what sound. This is | | | | reading. Children love to do things therefore they |
| very important. | | | | love tracing the sandpaper letters. They love the |
| Also reading aloud increases your child's | | | | feel of the texture of the sandpaper and this |
| vocabulary. When you are reading aloud your child | | | | simple act helps plant the letters, phonic sounds |
| will ask questions - you must answer them | | | | and words in your child's mind. |
| because your child just doesn't know and wants | | | | |