How to help your child to read

My mum taught me how to read when I was two and a half and still in nappies. Loved sitting on her lap and being taught how to read.

I still love reading to this day. Due to my early start in being taught how to read then I was quite far ahead in reading levels than other kids back in school.

perhaps if sarah vine took more care of her children than giving advice on beauty the way she looks .....

I find that what will most impell a tot into attempting to read is if you and other important adults or older children in their family or group are seen reading as often as possible - books, newspapers, mags.
If it's seen as a vital activity frequently performed by people the child looks up to, then they will do it too.
Eg. many toddlers become adept at using phones and mobiles at a very early age. They are copying adult behaviour.

However, young children are very impressionable and I would be very wary of many internet sites including Wikipedia, This is edited by all sorts of people, any of whom are free to exercise their own (sometimes very peculiar) hidden personal and political agendas in how they represent the material. Young children do not have the critical ability to judge whether the content is questionable or not.

Get rid of your television set. It'll work wonders.

I wasn't interested in reading as a child, nothing would get me interested until one day the Maths teacher said "read chapter 10 and do the exercises at the end". OMG unless I learnt to read I couldn't do the one thing I loved, I soon learnt.

Both myself and my wife regularly played word and numeracy games when we went any where with our children, my son is now doing a PHD with a first class mastrers degree, in chemistry, my daughter got all A's in her gcse, along with an as level 1 year early.

If we look at psychology, and how people learn, we soon see that the old method of boring black board copying style does not get it's results we all hoped for. as adults, we also know that the most effective method of learning is experiencetial, of course that is depndant upon us having enough sence to understand right from wrong and being able to apply boundaries.

i aint getin wot they on abat. Wot u fink m8?

My almost-3-y-o can't get enough of books (takes after me!). Oe of his favourite things is going ot the library and we read to him al lthe time. :)

I have found a great adventure book for all ages. It's a time travel fantasy called Tom Tullet and the Saxon Ruby. Look at the reviews on the Amazon web site.

I'd say, it's very hard to get a child who isn't interested in books to love them. Reading is something you love or hate. I was lucky, I loved it and thought myself to read, reading books over and over again, when there weren't any new ones. But people forget the downside of reading, which is that when children become very addicted to reading, they don't want to do anything else, that includes preparing for exams. It's mostly lovers of books that think everyone should enjoy reading as much as them, but that's not always the case. Some children lack the imagination it takes to read except for text books. It don't mean to say, they're not going to be good at other things. I think, leave children find what they are going to be good at, rather than forcing them.

For good phonics videos type Mr Thorne Does Phonics into google!

i started off on porn mags,,great pic's as well

They draw you in with the 'handy guide' and you get to the end and think, but I knew all of that already. There's no spoonfeeding when it comes to reading. They read the words they know, skip over or try to make out the ones they don't, until eventually one day it all falls into place.

my god! yahoo do it again! and the award for stating the bleeding obvious goes to......

I mean to me a book is a nicer option

I agree with article also but never rely on childrens tv,I was watching a programme with my child and I must say what he was watching was slighty silly and to me encouring children to do the same thing. He watches programmes for his age and just think that its not the way foward in some circumstances as its not exactly teaching children. My little boy is at that age where he is copying everything aswell so to be a book is a much nicer option

Education, the state administered narcotic drug.

WATCH TV CHILDREN PROGRAMMES AND LEARN ENGLISH PLUS GO TO THE LIBRARY AND ASK FOR HELP - BUT NEVER DEPEND ON OTHERS TO DO YOUR DIRTY WORK

I love reading books,I read everyday. I think its so important to read to ur child. My little boy is 2yrs old and he loves books whether its just looking at the pictures or me reading to him.

I Love books and every parent should encourage their children to read and i so agree with the article it doesnt matter were the written word is . I read all the signs in the street to my little grandaughter and she gets so excited when she sees one . you can bring the whole world into your living room through the written word and unlike tv you can pop it in your bag and take it anywhere with you