Beginning Reading Help

Does your child guess at longer words? Today I'll show you how to help your child read longer words. Watch this short video. It is...

You can select a few words from a book your child is about to read and practice sounding out these words before reading the book. This str...

Blends are tricky for some beginning readers. You can teach blending the letter sounds quickly together with magnetic letters. When pract...

Practice making the short u sound with a child. Make sure the child is able to make the correct sound. The C stands for consonant and the ...

You can teach phonics rules for words before a child can write letters. Magnetic letters make this possible. Some work needs to be done wi...

Generally when a vowel is at the end of a word or syllable the vowel will have a long sound, and when a vowel is alone between two consona...

Short vowel sounds are often very hard for children to learn. It is easy to confuse one sound with another. 1. One way for a child to hea...

A child must learn to blend sounds in words to be able to read a word. Some letter sounds can be stretched and are called continuous sound...

Yesterday I helped a student I tutor practice reading words with beginning consonant blends from books before reading. Blends can be trick...

Currently I'm tutoring a student with reading once a week. Here is an activity we did together today. The videos show me using magnetic ...

I've made posts describing ways to use magnetic letters when teaching a child to read. Magnetic letters are powerful tools! Many...

A child can read and spell simple words with magnetic letters . I gave my own children access to magnetic letters before they could write l...