Older child keeps giving all the answers.

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I am not home educating but as my children attend a French school, I am teaching them to read in English.

DS (5) got to know most of his sounds when he was 3 and 4 while DD was napping and is now starting to read.

DD is just 4 and obviously ready to learn her letter sounds but DS just keeps on 'interfering'. He's obviously proud of his new found skill but DD isn't getting a chance.

I can't leave it to the weekend because if DH entices DS away with another activity, DD wants to join in.

How do you manage it?

Direct the question at dd and reward ds with a sticker for keeping quiet or use a tactic like ' dd can u tell ds nd i what sound that is?' when she guesses ask ds if shes right almost like a partner teacher.

Ooh, I like the partner teacher idea. He will really go for that!

Keep 'em coming.

I used to teach 2 siblings English after school when I live in Spain. The older sister was exactly the same and always butting in.

I taught them at the same time with different levels, so elder sis had a book that she read on teh sofa while little bro had 1 on 1, then we would all talk about book and elder sis woujld show little bro some of the words etc.
Also did competitions, hangman type things, or pictionary (with harder words for older child) so they were playing together.