by Stephen | Sep 5, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
Reading Immersion or Reading To Children You would think reading immersion would be the last step, but no we are only halfway there. Many parents are actually reading to children at this point which is great motivation unless it is used as a crutch. Assuming you have...
by Stephen | Sep 3, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Step 3 Sounding Out Words Your phonics system gives you the key to sound out words, but you need to get the child to mash the sounds together. For example, hold the Apple Card and ask for the sound. The child will say “ah.” Now make the ah absurdly long...
by Stephen | Aug 30, 2020 | phonics games, phonics is
Step 2 Phonics System Most reading programs use a phonics system. Phonics is a system that links the sound to a letter. Phonics helps the child in sounding out words. Unfortunately, English’s biggest problem is that it has 13 vowels, but only 5 vowel letters....
by Stephen | Sep 10, 2018 | learning to read, phonics games
Games For Reading or No Reading At All In third grade our daughter’s teacher who had been with her for 3 years called us into the school to go over Stephanie’s test results. Stef was reading at 12th grade level! Nine years above where her teacher expected....
