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Teaching child to read English

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LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 29/03/2025 20:33

If you live abroad and your child is attending a non English school how have you taught them to read in English.
Have you followed a particular phonics system/ reading book scheme?

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xmasdealhunter · 30/03/2025 22:50

The Meg and Greg series and resources are great Home - Meg and Greg Books

mamatoTails · 31/03/2025 22:14

Yes we have lived in Spain since my twins were 13 months old, and they are now 8.
I’ve been teaching them to read in English at home since they were 6, once they started reading in Spanish fairly well.

we used Bob books to start with, if you google it you’ll find them.
also at the same time I put the reading eggs app on their tablets, so every time we are in the car they can practised the English sounds, and this really helped them.
To be honest they’ve mainly picked it all up from reading a lot of the same books over and over, and from Bob books we’ve been using the ladybird read it yourself books and gradually worked up through the different levels. I’ve older kids and most books are ones I’ve kept from them, and I did the same method with my older daughter who was 4 when we moved here so also only been to a Spanish school. Read to them as much as possible
in English. Read a sentence each, read harder books and point out the key words for them to read.

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