how do you teach a second grader how to read?

Question

whar are some helpful way ,hint and easy ways to teach a second grader how to read? i'm having trouble>>>>>>if there are any webites it would help alot!!!!! thanks

Answer 1

http://www.starfall.com

I found this last summer and started my 5 yr old on it before she got into kindergarten. She is advanced in her class now. It's a great free website that teaches letters, sounds, and starts on basic reading. It shows how to sound out words. Auditory hints. My 5 yr old loves playing on this website.

Answer 2

First step, make sure your 2nd grader can process the sounds. Do blending games with sounds from simple words, like "What's /k/ [slight pause] /a/ [slight pause] /t/?" Try other easy words like that to see how well the 2nd grader can process sounds.

If that's okay, move onto the alphabet and see how many sounds the child knows. He doesn't need to know ALL the sounds before working on reading, but he needs to know enough to be able to work on easy phonetic words.

If he knows enough sounds, move to easy phonetic words. Reading Reflex is a great and easy program to work on this. It even gets into more advanced phonics and multisyllable words.

Once some words can be read, work on phrases, longer sentences, etc. You should be able to find phonetic books and other easy readers at your library or you might check into the Bob Books series.

Just keep slowly working your way up, mixing in some easy stuff and some challenging stuff so that not ALL reading is difficult, but the child's abilities are getting stretched. Also try to do as much paired reading as possible, having your child read as many words as he feels comfortable. You might just start out with a word per sentence and you read the rest and when he's ready, a full sentence here and there.

And, of course, the more you read to your child, the better chances of him/her learning to read faster. Again, mix easy with more challenging--more challenging books provide a higher level of vocabulary than your child might use in spoken language, but will help the child recognize 'new' words in books.

Answer 3

First of all READ to the child. Little children need to hear words read.
Because of the age here I would recommend a program like Hooked on Phonics--something that will go over the basics of phonics but something that can be mastered and go forward and not too slow. Sounds, practice and lots of encouragement.
Some of the Dr Seus books might be good--and the I Can read series--many at local library. You read a few pages and point out the words and then see if the child can remember the words on sight (not only sight--do the phonics work FIRST!!!). Try to get the rhythm of the rhyming--using The Cat in the Hat is fun! so is Hop on Pop and Ten Apples on Top!
Find books to read aloud to your child that interest him/her. Read one chapter a day. The more YOU read and leave them hanging the more they want to get the reading figured out and read ahead of you!
Patience, encouragement, patience, consistent phonics practice, patience, sounding out whatever you see, patience.....
Be sure to be on the look-out for positive effort and praise praise praise!!
and as Churchill said...Never, never, never, never, never give up!

Answer 4

The same way you taught him how to walk. Or to talk. Or to use the bathroom. Or to ride a bike. Or to.. you get the picture.

Reading is natural. It's all around us in life. Unless he has a brain disorder (which is truly rare) or a processing disorder (both of which should be ruled out by a physician, there is no reason that he can't learn to read with the normal everyday life exposure to books, reading and phonics.

If he is ready, he will respond very well to any of the programs that the other answers provided. Also, it's a good idea to understand your child's learning style. It will help you understand why he may be balking at a particular program or approach to learning.

There are two reasons to read: to extract information and for pleasure.

There is a third, but it only exists in school (not real life): Reading to learn to read.

To best allow your child to learn to read at his own pace, make sure that he has a lot of books available that are interesting to him. Books that he doesn't need to know how to read to understand the basic information. Books that he wants to read because the topic pulls him in. And don't stress about the "level" of the book, expose him any and all books, at any level, that would appeal to his topics of interest.

Since he is a late reader, I would discourage any expectations that he read *every* word on a page. If he doesn't get a word, skip it. Even if it's an "easy" word. Make sure that however many words he understands or doesn't, it's OK. The point is to get information or to enjoy the story. Don't focus on the function of reading.

Some kids prefer to learn the phonics before sight words, some the other way around. Some kids enjoy reading stories, some kids enjoy reading non-fiction, others prefer comics, and some prefer magazines or how-tos. These are all great ways to learn to read, and none is better than the other.

The goal right now isn't so much to teach your child to read, but to get him comfortable and excited about books. Late readers need a special effort not to push the details of reading too hard, because they are old enough to know that most kids their age are reading. That might create a natural feeling of not being capable. If he feels he's not capable, then it's going to be a much harder to road to follow.

I'd say don't push it right now, but keep him exposed to lots of books (don't force him to read them out loud), play words games (games are a GREAT way to play with words without pressure), do word puzzles together and ask him to help you when you are "stuck" with things that he knows how to read or spell. Let him know, that even adults don't know every single word out there.

Lastly, focus on what he CAN do. Not what he can't. If you focus on what he can do, you'll be able to see just how much he's learning. He may actually be learning fairly consistently. So pay attention to that.

Don't compare him to other seven year olds. Compare him only to his earlier self.

Let him enjoy books in his own way, even if that's just looking at the pictures. Audio books are good too.

And in the meantime, if you notice something is "just not right", like he says that the words are "fuzzy" or doesn't seem to be able to distinguish separate letters, get his eyes checked. You should also consider getting him tested for a true learning disability (not being ready to learn to read yet is not a true learning disability. Learning disabilities cross into other areas too, not just one subject.).

Good luck!

Answer 5

My mum taught me to read using a system she created herself using an "I can read!" series of books and flashcards she made using the main words from the book.

She would read to me from the book and encourage me to try to read as well, then afterwards she would use the flashcards to try to get me to read the words seperately instead of making them up if I wasn't sure (something I used to do a lot...most kids do I think) and also a little later she would help me to make sentences of my own out of the flashcards. It worked very well indeed for both me and my younger brother.

The most important thing that I would suggest is to be enthusiastic about books in general and read a lot with him and to him, and not just books that are at a second grade level. Read him books for older children as well, get him involved in reading and excited about it. By all means teach with books at a second grade level, but read others too. Having slightly older books was a great help to me because I wasn't raised thinking that there was a level for me to be reading at. I was reading Spot the Dog and my dad's entomology dictionary in between The Chronicles of Narnia when I was three or four and not remotely thinking there was anything unusual about it.

Well, those are the pointers I can think of from my side of the homeschooling line...good luck with it!

Answer 6

Hooked on Phonics wroked really well for my son. It starts with letter sounds and works up to small words and reading books pretty quickly. There are charts and stickers that let them feel like they are accomplishing something.

Also you should have him tested for dyslexia and other reading issues, You may have to request and even push for this at the local school.

Good Luck

Answer 7

Teaching someone to read isn't hard. Mainly remember that you can't force it: he will read when he's ready to, even if that's when he's eight. It's unnerving to a parent, but you're kind of stuck.

What you can do is read to him a lot with him on your lap and trace your finger under the words. Let him ask any questions. Also read a lot yourself and really talk to him about the books he reads.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

check out Spalding http://www.spalding.org/
I was an elementary teacher, I liked using Spalding Flash Cards. I made up all kinds of fun activities.

I would take a Spalding Flash Card (aka phonogram card) and use it in games, making small flip booklets of words that use the phonogram, I would have the child use gel pens to copy words out of environmental text onto lined paper.

If you don't have any luck with Spalding, go onto Google and search keyword - 'Phonograms', and make up some of your own cards. and use your imagination on how to make games and fun activities with phonograms.

Answer 10

make the sound of the letter and go though and easy book and sound the letters out and study the book with he or she and c how it goes