Never thought I'd be asking this but how do I teach my child to read?

[Enid]

she might enjoy it (she is almost 4)

she knows all ther jolly phonic sounds

is there a workbook or something you can do at home?

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good one enid
i d start wiht the key reception words

ELC do a whole range of jolly phonic workbooks, dvd's etc - have a look online.

finbar has started this with her ds who has just startess chool but is5 already

I thikn we have those on the fridge

do you just point at them and repeat them?

god I would be shite teacher

You can get jolly phonics workbooks and a dvd in ELC. Also loads of other workbooks too, simple letter, sound recognitiondrawing wiggly lines that sort of thing.

she has played the alphabet games on the poisson rouge website so much that she pronounces robot 'robo'

do mathcin pair games
then get areading book wiht them in
make her up a back pack wiht her learning stuff in them
or get the magnetic ones fom watersontes on a white board

look at cvc words firts
look at htat game on the website

those letters on that website are prounounced the 'old fashioned way' not like phonics

arghhhhhhh

You can buy the Jolly Phonics look and see books - one phonetic one per page.

Or get the key words (reception age) magnetics and concentrate on one a day - can she spot them in a sentence, etc.

am going through this with dd as well Enid, she is 4 next month
Am simply winging it
She uses the phonics for letters to sound out a word
like say N - O - T as ne o te
and is slowly figuring out to say them together
She figured out zoo yesterday so figure she's on her way?
I have no idea if this works LOL but my ds was reading like a demon before hes tarted school and I'm fairly sure this is the plan I followed
DD really likes the Oxford pre readers Biff Chip and the new songbirds ones.
I have no clue about jolly phonics I get very suspicious about it!

they need to learn both tbh

also I ask dd what a word I say starts with
She really enjoys this and plays it back to me

leap pad phonics games (swear this is what got mine reading)

lots of games on there that repeat those dreadful CVC words over and over again - things like identify the middle sound in 'bed' is it 'e' 'o' 'i' 'u' etc. etc. If you have a leap pad just make sure you get the English accent sounding games.

c lik on the letter itself and they give you the phonic sound
"l"soudns liek she is being sick

keywords

have a look atthis

probably a bit old but might give you some ideas.

For phonics - learn the sounds, and then do some CVC words. Get her to identify start sounds of words, then end sounds, then middle sounds. You can then move onto blending sounds.

I agree they need keywords to, or their reading material is very restricted. Words like the, they, are, come, etc. are useful ones. They have to be done through sight reading really through.

lol - it does sound like 'hurl' when the voice says it doesn't it!

If you google key stage 1 literacy, some great stuff comes up. The Woodlands site is good.

if you've got the fridge magnet 45 keywords, make funny sentences out of them, so she learns to recognise the words. Also, try sounding out words. And our playgroup leader suggested to me this morning to make a book about 'our family', 'This is Mummy. She is Enid' etc, along with a picture - then it's reading without her realising she's reading.

The Jolly Phonics teachers handbook (£20) reveals all the secrets of teaching a child to read - it's easy to use. Well worth the money.

I wouldn't force the issue... there is no big advantage in reading before reception
I helped my dd spell the odd word before reception but tbh I left it to the professionals
Seems to have paid off
She's just started year 2 and is happily reading ' chapter books' as she calls them

BJit slla tied up woth a beahviour thread botu her being very inquistiieva dner.. social