Ideas to teach stubborn 5 year old how to read?

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Ideas to teach stubborn 5 year old how to read?

Answer 1

Phonics is essential when teaching a child to read. Phonics addressed rule breakers and helps children read tricky words. There are also "sight words" that need to be taught in addition to phonics. If you google "sight words" you'll come up with lots of list. These basically need to be memorized. Pick like 5-10 per week and work ONLY on those, even if he has them after day one. The best way to teach your child is to make it fun. There's a CD by a guy named Jack Hartmann (Shake, Rattle, and Read) that is excellent. You could just let him listen to it for fun. Also, there's a site, www.starfall.com that is very helpful and would make learning to read fun. It's important that you read to him and point to each word as you read. Read books on his level sometimes too, not just hard books and always point to the words. The more you force him to learn to read the more he's going to feel like a failure at it. Make it relaxed and fun and don't let him know he's not doing well. He'll get it.

Answer 2

to be honest I think your pushing him too hard, learning to read should be fun and exciting at this early stage.

All my kids start school on their 5th birthday here in NZ and by 6 they can usually read at a good level for their age.



Its not abotu memorizing the page or a story, at first its just about memorizing words that link with the picture theyre reading. for example right now, my daughter is 5 and a half, when we read a book together Ill read the big words, and she reads the little words, for example in the line



the bird flew excitedly over to the birds nest



She can recognise "the" "bird" "to" "the" and "birds" and "nest"



I would go with what yoru teachers are saying, all kids learn at different levels and boys are often less good at reading. youll be surprised how fast hell fly through once he gets the hang of more of the words.

Answer 3

First off you started trying when he was too young. Your son was learning to talk and you went to a more advanced skill. Next you are spending way too long on reading on a daily basis. Try going for about 10 minutes at a time. Make very sure you have books he can have success with, books that say early reader on them should be okay. Phonics works and will enable him to read bigger and harder words once he gets the knack. Right now, he should be working on sight words. Words like the, and, it, and is. You get the idea, words he will see frequently no matter how old he gets. A good way to practice these is to use flash cards. Kids seem to get excited when they start being able to read these words and want to be able to read more words. It is a building process. Just like math, first he could count now he can add and subtract. Soon he will learn about multiplication. It is the same in reading. At 5 he is just starting the process, I would not worry about him quite yet. If he is still having problems reading at 6 I would have him evaluated for dyslexia because that is a hereditary problem. So try shorter times, try flash cards and one other thing take him to the library help him find books in his reading level and allow him to choose the book. It is always more fun to read something you are interested in. Good luck.

Answer 4

Phonics do work - it was how I, my husband and daughter learned to read.

If you are into the whole word memorization technique, could you apply it to things which seem important to him.

Show him cards with foods, for example - "jam" and "honey" - no prompt, just ask which he would like on his bread.

Outings:- "park" or "zoo"? Extend it to sentences : "A walk in the park" or "Feed the monkeys at the zoo"

It may help him to grasp the importance of being able to communicate via the written word.

Answer 5

The best way to teach a child to read is to teach them the basic words first rather than whole sentences. You can buy key stage magnetic words from places like WHSmith. Your son will be on the reception stage. The school should provide him with the same words, but I found the magnets handy and my daughter enjoyed learning with them. One your child has learnt the basics, reading sentences and eventually paragraphs will become much easier.



It is frustrating when you spend ages teaching your child and they seem to forget it five minutes later, but their attention span is small. It's not that they are forgetting it altogether but they have had enough. My daughter was the same, we would work on one particular word for a long time, she would master it and then half an hour later she couldn't read it. But now she is 6 and she is doing brilliantly with her reading and is at the top end of her class. You just need to be patient.



I would suggest getting the basic words and concentrating on a couple a day, for no longer than 20 minutes. Once he has mastered a few words you can start trying to make sentences with them, and then take it from there. Try to make it fun and your son will respond better. Good luck!

Answer 6

My daughter's school used zoo phonics. You can find the program on the internet. It goes through all the sounds of the alphabet by using animals. Like Alli the alligator goes a (the sound) and it has hand motions that go along with the letter of straight arms clapping together as an alligator shutting her mouth. After they master the sounds they use the motions together to make words. They then have other rules of silent e and things. Also we had flash cards of rule breakers that were called sight words that the kids went through to memorize. My daughter loved the program and it really worked at her school. She was reading at a 4th grade level by the end of 1st grade.

You could take him to a private program to have him tested. I think my mom called the Sylvan learning center to find where testing could be done.

Answer 7

I would never sit a 5 year old down to read for a whole hour, they only have a short attention span. Do his reading in short bursts so he doesnt get bored and disruptive, It doesnt matter what he reads, the back of a cereal packet will do, find something to catch his eye like road signs, tv or adverts, it all helps.

Answer 8

my 6 year can't read either, i know how you feel.

Answer 9

First of all - don't panic. Kids are all different and your boy may just catch up when he is good and ready - other things seem OK so it may be just something about words.

For our son we used little cards with words on - flash cards I think they were called - show a bunch of them one after the other saying the word out loud, repeat the bunch just a few times in a session - make it fun - try doing it faster and faster - don't worry if he does not get it at first. It helps if you can show a card and the real object to tie them together, but it is not essential. The idea is for him to recognise the whole word and associate it with the sound of the word. Soon he should be saying each word as you flash the card. Apparently we see whole words when we read - only using phonetics to read a new unfamiliar word.

There is a classic example of this where a list of words are shown, deliberately mispelled in that some of the letters are in the wrong order, but with the right number of letters and the correct first and last letter. Nearly everyone can read the words without any problem. This is supposed to demonstrate that the brain 'pictures' a word and can recognise the length, right letters, and start/finish letters. As long as all of the 'ingredients' of the picture are there then the brain recognises the word.

Long explanation, but I hope you get the idea.

Get some 'flash cards' from somewhere like Early Learning or WHSmiths and give it a try.

Good Luck

Answer 10

Find a common ground like football etc then teach him to read that. If the print is to small type it into your PC and use a larger font size.

Answer 11

Buy this book: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.



It is awesome -- each lesson is only about 10 minutes long, so even a small child who is easily bored or distracted can learn. You have to carefully read the instructions so that you follow the lessons exactly, and know how to use it before you start.



I used this with both my children, and one has learning disabilities and ADHD.

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Answer 13

I think you need to take it easy with your son. He is only five...most five year olds barley know the alphabet much less how to read a whole book. Dont push him so much. He sounds very bright and he will learn when he is ready. I am sure the school is doing the right thing by teaching with phonics. Your job is to just coninue reading a story to him every night and go over his homework with him. But please back off a little sounds like you worry that he could have a problem such as dyslexia. But there is no way to tell at this age. As you have described he sounds very smart and I wouldnt worry if I were you. Good luck!

Answer 14

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Answer 15

Poor you. But other answers are right - an hour is tooooo long. I do understand also that boys are notoriously bad at WANTING to read. Also if your school isn't concerned yet don't worry, they'll let you know if it really becomes a concern to them.



My girl started primary 4 days after her 4th birthday. They taught them phonics (using Jolly Phonics) to start with. Sound and actions for the letters. Alongside this she was a sheet of words, to start with only 4 at a time repeated twice on the sheet. Story books that were just a few simple words, again kinda repeated. We would sit down for only 5 minutes a day and work on it. If she struggled, I sounded out if I could and then told her the word and just got her to repeat it to me. Then eventually she'd want to tell me the word.



Don't forget they will learn that some letters like a an "o" and a "u" make a sound each but together they make an "ow" or "oo" sound. So they'll get used to trying both and seeing what makes a word they know. More words become able to be sounded out than you think. So if his vocabulary is large he'll soon find the word.



My eldest was a memorizer not a "reader" and she found it harder in the reception and year 1. Now of course she's sorted it but gets new long words incorrect as she wasn't really taught to break it now phonicly.



One idea that came to find is to make pair of cards from his keywords and then play that game where they start with them face down and turn the over to try to find the matching one.



I did see in our local book shop "Transformer" books in different levels from reading with you, to Reception age and more for confident readers. Called "I can Read Books". Or just let him pick books he wants from the library this might spark an interest...



I can't find the web address but from a UK government site I have on file this: (if I find it again I'll post it on)



"In Reception year: To recognise all initial consonant and short vowel sounds (a-z, ch, sh, th) in speech and in writing; to identify and write correct initial letters in response to the letter sound, word, object or picture. To recognise and name each letter of the alphabet and to be aware of alphabetical order through rhmes and songs. Discriminate, write and read final sounds in simple words."

Answer 16

leave your five yr old kid alone and let him play!! most 5 yr olds are not ready to read. I'm sure he is not slow in any way at all. I'm sure he is also not ready to read. You really need to just let him enjoy whatever he can about reading and not have any expectations for when he needs to learn to read. If he were 7 years old, I would still say to let him develop in his own way because even at that age it is perfectly normal for intelligent children to not know how to read yet. At five years old there is absloutely no reason for him to be expected to be well on the way to being able to read. He is just beginning!! Try to ease up on your expectations because he will easily know how stubborn you think he is and that will create more issues, not less. Continue to read to him, let him memorize books or words if he wantst to and let him know that that's a fine way to learn to read. If your son does not want to learn how to read phonetically, it will not harm his learning to read if he is taught that way anyway. I don't believe in phnics either but, it works well for some kids and not others. Most kids learn to read easily no matter which way they are taught -- and the best indicator of being able to be taught to read easily is a child who has been read to frequently. That doesn't mean you should push your child to learn to read because you have been reading to him a lot. It does mean that he will be more likely to become a lifelong lover of reading as long as you keep in enjoyable. Ease up!!

Answer 17

my son hates reading in fact he reads the book while looking out of the window it is frustrating,

with my son I bought a book from school in book week, it was on a subject that interested him (magic)

he just took off , his reading improved, its still not the easiest thing to do to read a book but he can read quiet well now for him

don't loses your temper one day he will decide reading can be of some value to him

now my son needs to learn to spell and write its never ending

Answer 18

i have a five year old who knows all the key words and can read them easily offt he chart but in the books finds it slightly harder ,he is perfectly normal .to be honest if he has been writing his name since two he sounds like he has a grasp on what is expeted of him at his age ,five is still really little and you dont need to push too hard ,a few minutes each day learning key words is all you need to do to get him starting on the road to reading.x

Answer 19

He's not learning because you're making a big deal out of it. For starters, he is BORED! You're making a big deal out of it, and he has lost interest. Loosen up!



WHAT words can you not sound out? Try flash cards with the words printed on them. Worked for my 2 children!

Answer 20

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Answer 23

reading and writing go hand in hand. have you perhaps considered making more of a game out of it? when i was little we had those coloured fridge magnet letters. if you had those, sit on the floor with him and go through all the letters with him, even if it means presenting him with one letter at a time and asking him what the letter is. then get one of each in alphabetical order and eg ask him to find the letter 'P'. work with hard sounds like "ch", "th", "sh", "tr" etc. put two letters together (which make a basic sound) and ask him to pronounce them. do the same with vowels like "oo", "ee", "ah" etc. make a game of getting him to make words out of letters.



most kids struggle at first with whole words and it's a case of helping them understand that words are made of different sounds and what those sounds look like written down, and what a whole word sounds like and looks like when you put all the letters together. Where possible, avoid words like 'cough', 'though' and 'through' as the 'ough' sound has various pronunciations and rather than helping your son extend his vocabulary (both in reading and writing), it's more likely to confuse him and make things more difficult.



I was seen as something of a child prodigy at the age of 6 when i started working through the roald dahl books by myself, but i do realise that I was something of a rare case! when i was 16 i did a few days in my primary school sitting and reading with the 5-6 year olds and the results were variable. some were reading very eloquently and with little difficulty bar the odd few longer words, and others were having to pause and think, and others just couldn't seem to recognise words at all and were more interested in telling me about the pictures in the book or that they were wearing new shoes.



the other thing to do is get word cards and 'label' things in your house, even if it's things like 'door', 'wall', 'window', 'bath', 'sink', 'spoon', 'fork', 'apple' etc etc. he'll get used to seeing the words (even if he doesn't realise it), whenever you walk past one, ask him to say what the word is. move the words round (but to the same object, just elsewhere in your house) so that he doesn't assosciate that word with just that particular thing in that location.



good luck!

Answer 24

Investigate the Montessori approach to learning. It worked fabulously for my son and kept him fully engaged the whole time. Its not a quick fix but it does really, really work. There are lots of books available on it and probably a ton of stuff online.



http://www.andomon.org/is.html



http://www.montessorimom.com/?Reading_Readiness:Montessori_Reading-

Answer 25

hi get him to write you a letter then ask him to read it back to you then you are doing to things a once getting him to write and to read at the same time till him you want to send it to santa to give him the insentive.

Answer 26

make it fun 4 him ie animal,colours,shapes match words to pictures that kind of thing my kid was the same & she is getting better plus we have a laugh at the same time

Answer 27

Leave your kid alone, your nuts. I mean it , your behavior is over done and borders on abusive. A five year old will be fine with the proper teachers at the proper pace, you are pushing too hard. Lay off.Trust the teachers, they have the right path and they will know what to do about it. They will test a child who needs remedial help or if their is a concern. Love your child and back off.

Answer 28

This is taught in school isn't it?

Answer 29

Leave it to the school - they are the experts.