Follow These Simple Steps To Prepare Your Child To Read:
First Step – RECOGNISING A to Z
Children can only read independently when they know how to pronounce the alphabets.
To help a child in reading, first, we need to help them to recognise ‘a to z’.
Many parents could try to sing abc song to their children. Singing abc song does help them in picking up all the 26 alphabets, however, introducing phonics to them at the same time help them in reading.
Second Step – Introducing PHONICS (Basic & Digraph)
Parents can always start from teaching the children basic phonics, for example, make the sound of a ‘aah’. Later, introduce digraphs to the children, for example, ‘oo’ sounds like ‘uuuuu’, that’s how we get the words cook, look, took and etc.
Third Step – APPLICATION of Phonics (BLENDING)
After learning the basic phonics and digraphs, parents can teach children how to apply on words. For example, cat. First, we start by making the sound of c, then make the sound of a, and make the sound of t. Then blend them together to get c-a-t. This is the stage where children spend the longest time to practice and sometimes, they get stuck in this stage.
Last Step – Non-stop PRACTICE
Parents, do not panic! What your child needs is more practice.
The more words your child gets to practice, the better they know how to apply phonics and eventually they know how to read!
BENEFITS to Children and Parents
Once they can read fluently, the more books they can read, the more things they can explore, the more ideas they can express! By knowing how to read, it actually expands their knowledge and mind.
Not forgetting, if a child can read independently, books can keep them occupied most of the time and parents can have a little more ‘me time’. Isn’t that the happy ending we want?
SOLUTION
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怎么样帮助3至6岁的小孩掌握阅读英文单词 ？
步骤一： 认识字母A到Z
小孩必须先知道A到Z的各别发音，才有办法独立阅读。
首先，我们先帮助他们认识字母A到Z。
很多家长会选择唱传统的abc歌，这也是不错的选择。
更好的方法是同时间介绍phonics (即英文发音)，这样不但能认识所有字母，更能帮助打好以后阅读的基础。
步骤二： 正式介绍PHONICS (即英文发音)
这个时候，家长们需要在发音下点功夫，确保孩子能够正确地发出所有字母的音。举个例子，a是‘啊’！
当小孩完全掌握基本字母发音后，家长可开始介绍digraph（即复合字母）。譬如，ai,ie,oa,ou等等。
在单个字母发音里，o是‘oh’的音，可是到了复合字母‘oo’的音则是‘乌’的音。因此，我们才能正确念出像cook、look、took这样的词。
到了这里，第一和第二步骤都是基本功。
家长切勿心急，逼着孩子把单词念出来，家长必须帮孩子把基本功练好。
步骤三： 运用Phonics（连接）
下一步我们就是要帮助孩子把学到的基本功运用出来。譬如，cat这个英文单词，我们先从第一个字母开始发音，一直到最后一个字母,再把三个音连起来。这个过程比起其他步骤需要更长的时间，小孩通常需要比较多练习和时间来明白连接的概念。
最后一步：不断练习
这时家长需要更加有耐心指导，要相信，小孩在这个时候一旦把连接的概念建立起来，之后基本上就已经把阅读技巧掌握起来了。不断练习就是最后关键了。
最大益处归于小孩和家长
小孩一旦把基本阅读技巧掌握起来就能独立地进行阅读活动。一个爱看书的小孩能通过阅读认识更广、更大的世界，更能因为识字，拥有大量的词汇量，因而能更流畅地表达自己。
总的来说，识字、阅读，带给我们更大更阔的世界观。
此外，别忘了，爱阅读的小孩会花很长时间在书本上，而家长就能拥有更多自己的时间了。
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