My first grade son does not seem to have an interest in learning to read or learn phonics. Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons was recommended to us. We have used this and other online phonics programs, but he still shows very little interest in wanting to learn to read. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Just be patient. Some children are not ready to read at six.
I would keep reading to him out loud every day, and asking him to sound out one or two words a page. Keep reading a fun and pleasant experience.
Assuming he has no learning disabilities, it will click soon. If he is not reading by eight, then I would start to seek screening for learning disabilities.
The Moores wrote a book Better Late Than Early about the many, many children who are not reading at six. I suggest checking out a copy from the library.
I have seen two (out of hundreds and hundreds!) cases where mothers were too laid back about their children's reading. Both of these children were eleven years old and still not reading. That's why I think that if a child isn't getting it by eight, then you might want to look into dyslexia or some other processing disorder.
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"Blessed is the man...whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by rivers of water..." from Psalm 1
shadow took the words out of my mouth! Boys are not wired to "do school". Hang in there. He'll get it eventually! Ask your librarian for help finding books he would enjoy. Reading doesn't have to be readers! If he would rather read about rockets, that works! Or perhaps a book series.
Another thing to ask your librarian--do they have a "Reading with Rover" program? My therapy dog and I go into libraries and kids read to the dogs. The kids love it! And I get to see kids progress. Fun all around!!!
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You have a choice. You can throw in the towel or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face.
Just read a bunch to him--several times a day -play word games--label everything with words--the stove the fridge his bed what ever--show him reading is fun---let him listen to books on tape--dont pressure him to read just do fun things he will read in his own time--I had a son who did not read until he was 9!!
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My kids both enjoyed starfall.com. They especially liked clicking on the pictures to make them do different things each time. I credit that site with really helping my DD with her phonics more than anything else.
We used Bob Jones for our early reading. I liked the program because it encouraged the parent to read part and the child to read part. You might look for those tandem readings in your library. I also let my kids pick what they wanted to read from the leveled readers you can find at most stores [like Walmart or even our grocery store has them]. My son is a big Star Wars junkie, and so he enjoyed being able to read the Star Wars books.
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