Teaching reading to preschoolers

It is best to think about how to teach a preschool child to read long before school. In schools, as a rule, there is not that individual and playful approach to each student. But if the baby is not interested, then in general you can beat off all the hunt to learn to read. Agree, not a bright prospect. Therefore, in order not to suffer in the future, forcing the child to read at least one book, we suggest that you start preparing your own preschool child for reading.

Let's briefly tell about the methods of teaching preschool children to reading.

Methodology of NA. Zaitseva (method of reading by warehouses)

To be engaged in training with the child on this system it is possible to begin already from 2 years, but since. educational material in this technique - it's cubes, then you can interest them as a child and younger. What is the meaning of this method? Children all grasp a lot faster when you present them with information in a game form. Therefore Zaitsev came up with the idea of ​​making cubes that would be different in size, colors, sounds (different sounds are obtained due to different fillers). It would seem - nothing special, but it is these differences between cubes with letters that help the child to feel the difference of all sounds, allowing to get rid of information that is not needed at the moment about hardness, glasnost, consonance and so on.

Methodology by Maria Montessori

M. Montessori believes that it will be easier to teach preschoolers expressive reading, if you first teach them to write. Of course, everything happens in an easy and entertaining game form: children cut out letters from rough paper, paint them on semolina, outline various bright stencils, and soon they write whole words and sentences.

The Glenn Doman Method

"It is easier to teach a child to read in a year than in two, and in two it's easier than in three!" - these are the words of the author of this technique, the whole basis of which is to show cards to the child with words written on them. With the help of the photographic feature of our memory, the child begins to distinguish letters by himself, and later to read. By the way, G. Doman advises to use special books for reading to preschool children. On these books, the text is located separately from the picture, and on the page there should be no more than one sentence.

Immediately say that this is the longest method for teaching reading, but it, like the previous ones, works fine.

Reading by syllables for preschoolers

If the above listed methods do not suit you, then we will tell you one more simple and effective way of teaching reading by the syllables of preschoolers.

  1. We begin to learn the letters. After the child remembers them and can make up the same words or words from the same cubes or magnets, we move on to the next stage.
  2. Approximately for a month for 10-15 minutes a day, we read the child an alphabet, leading his finger or a pointer in letters. Soon it is possible to drive by letters already and a finger of the kid. After such preparation we proceed to the training itself.
  3. We read the syllable ourselves, and after that we ask the "pupil" to repeat it. Remember, children do not understand that "M" and "A" together give the syllable "MA". Children remember it. The proverb is correct: "Repeat is the mother of learning." So do not be lazy, if the kid can not tell you the syllable, repeat it yourself.

Whichever technique of reading for preschoolers you choose, never forget about goodwill. The child should be interested in learning to read. Well, to maintain the children's interest in helping you a huge assortment of shops: bright letters, various cubes, cards, magnets. The future of the child, the level of education and spiritual development in your hands, the main thing is not to miss the right moment.