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?

I would be careful about how you teach your child as my sons school teaches it a different way than i would have. Which would then be confusing to him. His school teaches a method called THRASS and it is the different sounds that each letter makes rather than just the alphabet ( the letter A can sound different in different words eg Ant and bAby) Hope this makes sense.

peridot thats kinda what I did with mine
TBH he was reading so well before starting school, he was never re taught IYSWIM
Not quite sure what he did in that case?, probably thats when he got his nose picking down to a fine art.

I'd also not be too tempted to just concentrate of reading. Look at other things as well to get her imagination fired - numbers, science, history, languages, etc.

DD loved all those little workbooks you can buy. TBH, even though now at school (started this month), she still likes those books. You can get then for reading, writing, letters, numbers, adding, subtracting, science, and french.

This webpage may be useful

Teach your child to read

I'd support Jolly Phonics. DS2 was keen to learn and I taught him with this at 3.5 - he entered school at just 4 reading fluently and now at just 5 can read pretty much anything (eg this morning at breakfast: "Christopher Ecclestone brings more humanity to the role of the doctor than previous incarnations") Obviously he doesn't understand everything he can read, like that sentence, but as Willow said, it's great for vocabulary!

Like Piffle's son, he could also read so well that he was never re-taught.

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