continue...helping your child to read

tips:

parents who read stories to their children developed their child's oral language skills (vocab and listening skills ) and effect upon the child's attitude to reading, create a desire to learn to read and resulted in later fluent reading attained by the children.

one way we could help our child to practise each letter shape is by writing a letter using a highlighter pen. then invite our child to to write the letter shape in pencil 'inside' the highlighter.

always make the learning fun and never let our child feel failure. when little children experience failure it does no inspire them to try harder, it makes them feel that they are useless and they seek to avoid the situation again

helping your child to read

a teach yourself concept to be applied to by all parents. a series of a self improvement brand name teach yourself. in this topic how ever i get to learn more on how important an action of reading to my children would benefit them in so much way. reason being is that i want them to enjoy books and reading as a pleasure as much as i am.

so there were some wonderful tips i've got from this book. although they have chapters starting from the very beginning that it is from your kid was a baby 0-12 months, 1-2 years, 2-3 and so on, but i've skipped this step first and went straight ahead to my toddler of 4 years old and among others...

1. reading is not the same as reading aloud.

2. tips to read aloud;

don't read too quickly, be dramatic, be prepared, try different voices,keep the tension going, add sound effects when appropriate, stress some words, lets the child join in, give time to enjoy the picture and stop when heis bored.

3. always have a book with us for times we might have to wait somewhere.

4. generally book shring time allocated at least 30 mins every day.

5. if we turn the tv off after a fave programme be sure to have some alternative activity ready for children to do.

6. children who have been read to from the age of 12 months to five years are likely to have heard in a region of 600 different stories before they get to school.

my heart's first steps by jennifer graf groneberg

all mommy and daddy dearest, this books is all about the wonders babies and our children had made us to be. it's a collective effort of stories from mothers and fathers and the enchanting experiences and bittersweet memories they have with them.

it's definetely heartwarming and nice as some of the experiences are so much related to me. i found that it's good to know that we could relate to those stories.