When you start to read aloud with your child it improves their listening skills. Listening helps to increase vocabulary. Practice and repetition make a habit that will enhance your child’s vocabulary. If you still haven’t started reading to your child just start it.
Image Source: PintrestIt is very
important to build up the habit of reading at an early age and it can be started from our lap only. Do you know why children don’t like to read because they are
not able to identify the word. I am sharing how you can teach more than 30
words to your child within 15 minutes. This is especially for the age group of 4 to 7 years.
Listening
will be the basic part when there is the question, how to teach words to small
kids? Most of the time parents tend to rote learning because we have been
through this. Ratta, and ratta and ratta, but seriously it will not work at
all. If your child misses a single letter of the particular word he will not
able to memorize the full spelling. Yes, there are some words that need to memories
but ratta is not the option.
Phonics plays
a very important role in early learners. The more your child reads the more he will be curious
to know the new word and the more he will eager to learn the new word. Today I
am sharing how we are doing this. This is my strategy which I am practicing since
my little one was in kindergarten and it is really effective.
We are still
learning phonics. Always go with the word family which makes a child a better
learner. The child learns lots of new words within a minute. When a child gets to
know that he can read more than 30 words in a short period of span he will be
happy and his interest will increase. Learning should be always in a happy mode
instead of the forced.
First we
need to teach the child to recognize this blend and then ask them to read the whole
word with this blend. Create the above chart and first practice this blend
only. Once he recognizes blend then go with the word family. Example PL is the blend and words which start with
this PL blend are plants, pluck, plan, play, etc.
During this
lockdown my child is not at all ready to study with a pencil and notebook. Yes,
she is more interested in teaching on board. So I thought to use this whiteboard. I create a reading wall and write a bunch of words on an alternate day. I
ask her to read the words from this reading wall which hardly take 10 or 15
minutes, yes, only 10 or 15 minutes. Check out the video it might be helpful
for you.
After
reading gives a different kind of activities related to this word. The same
which we used to give to our kindergarten students like match up, guess the word or write the word. The more you practice this kind of activity the more your
child tends to learn without ratta.
The same
pattern goes with the other language study too. These are some Marathi word
which we practice.
I hope the article will help you, parents. Comment below which technique you use for your
child. So that I can get a new idea from you.
Till then,
Happy
Learning!!
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ReplyDeleteThat's very true! A child's basics should be clear, otherwise they will never be able to speak or write in proper English! I'm dealing with level 4 students and they still don't know how to pronounce basic words 😓
ReplyDeleteYes, basic should be clear. I also know many student even higher secondary student also dont able to pronounce word properly.
ReplyDeleteHey Neeta, your blog is amazingly helpful... Some tricks and easy ways help both mom and child to prevent struggle while reading. I will follow these tips. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteFantastic post! When I read the title, I wasn't sure if teaching 30 words was even possible to a kid in 15 minutes. But your post effectively showed me how to. I will surely try this with my children. Keep posting such informative content.
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ReplyDeleteI think this is the best time to spend time with their children & make them learn the new and better things. Worth reading the blog.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very easy and effective way to teach kids new words. Thanks for sharing this a very informative post.
ReplyDeleteThis will make the basics strong, for sure,very helpful blog this will help both teacher and learner .
ReplyDeleteSuch an interesting post. It has always been a struggle to teach little ones. The right words and under 15 mins. Well done!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely no place like parent's lap. Great sources to use for kids. Reading is one of the best habits to inculcate in kids.
ReplyDeletewow this is really helpful for all lovely parents out there. Kids preliminary education is very important.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your appreciation and I am glad that it is useful to all.
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