How do I teach a 3 yr old to read? - Page 3

[rawbanana]

We watched the Leap Frog videos and they taught my almost 3yr old all her letter sounds, she wanted to learn to read too so we used 'teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons' and she is doing very well in it, i have heard many good things about it, my almost 6 yr old used the same book to learn to read as well, good luck!

[Fairy4tmama]

Originally Posted by LeftField

A couple of thoughts...

When my 4 year old was desperate to read but didn't seem ready, someone gave me some really great advice. They said that learning to read is a long process that begins with recognizing what a book is in infancy all the way up to breaking the code. So, I started presenting it this way to my son. I told him that he was, in fact, learning to read and that it was a long process. He was at a specific point in that process and doing well, I told him. I pointed to the things he knew in the world of reading as proof of this and I told him that I once had to learn how to read too. That seemed to make him happy.

I thought left field was dead on with this idea as well as her others, the one thing that I had to add was to point out to your dc the ways in which he is a reader, commenting when he "reads" a book by making up a story to go with the pictures or "reads" the sign at the store or other enviormental print. In all reality this is reading, its interprating symbols for meaning, one of the many steps on the road to becoming a reader.