How to teach a girl going into 1st grade how to read?!?!?!?

Question

I am a girl going into first grade's tutor and she doesn't know how to read. I need help preparing her for the gap between K and 1st.
P.S. Im only going into sixth so I have no idea!

Answer 1

The best thing you can do is to get picture books from the library and read them to her. Whenever possible, run your finger under the words as you are reading.

If you or the child's parents can afford it, get a workbook called My First Book of Uppercase Letters by Kumon. You can usually find it at Barnes & Noble. She can practice writing the letters of the alphabet and learning their sounds.

Play games with her like "How many words do we know that start with the B sound: buh, buh?"

It's great that you want to help this little girl, but don't take too much on yourself. You're still a child yourself. Good luck!

Answer 2

First of all, I have to tell you that you should feel proud to have the opportunity to tutor a first grader. Second, it is not your responsibility to "teach" a child to read. A tutor simply means that, to "tutor" not to teach. That is the teacher's and parent's responsibility. You should only be there to reinforce the teacher's lessons and to put it into practice. Read to her and with her. Show her the sound-letter correspondence and see if she has some phonemic awareness . If she is far behind in comparison to the rest of the class, ask the teacher if the child has been referred to a "Student Study Team", to address what may be the cause of her difficulties. Are there any speech and language concerns? Has the child had frequent ear infections that may have delayed her acquiring all of the sounds? How did she do on the teacher kindergarten assessments? Is she a young Kindergartner? if so, developmentally she may not be quite ready and retention could be considered....There are so many factors. But the most important thing is that you are there to "tutor" not to teach. Have fun with it and if nothing else, you can show her how fun it is to read, to enjoy reading and how you can learn by reading.

Answer 3

Well first off, you need to teach her the alphabet [ incase she doesn't already know, even if she does it's good to skim through it ] Make sure, she makes the sounds of each letter, after she knows that by heart, give her little words, like cat, bat, etc. [ oh yeah, make sure she knows that sometimes some letters can be silent like the k , in knife. ] After shee gets a hold of learning the little words, she'll start to learn to read bigger words with time! Btw- Dr.Suess books are great to use, =], she'll understand the concept or rhyming, and if she's stuck on a word, don't immediately tell her what it is, sound out the beginning, and she'll catch on.

Answer 4

First, remember when you first started to read. Me, I started to read before I was 2 years of age, never went to "K" (it didn't exist at my school that far back).
Go to a good library, preferably public, and find a bunch of books for beginners, ones that have a lot of colored pictures and few words. The old "Dick and Jane" series was ideal, but there are so many now. It is best to take her along or at least try to find out what interests her so you can choose books that she will like.
Where there is an interest, there is a better chance of successful learning.
P.S. I homeschooled my 3 sons, teaching them to read with those Bear books and Dr. Seuss and so many hundreds of others.

Answer 5

What? You're going into 1st grade's tutor? I don't understand. And frankly, I feel you are too young to be responsible for teaching a gr. 1 child how to read. Feel free to read with her and to her, but an adult should really be taking care of the girl's reading.

Answer 6

teach alphabets and use children books as person above said.
I also recommend using dictionary (children's dictionary)
and teach her how to read and pronounce common nouns (or names, something she knows when she hears the pronunciation) first
once she is familiar reading some words, she will remember the way is works and learn more quickly.

it worked for me at least.
im a foreigner and its been 5 years since i learned alphabets (now i go highschool)

Answer 7

buy a couple of simple children's books
at different levels.

start simple, teach the alphabet's letter's
sounds, then teach a couple of added
phonics. (ex. th, wh, -ion)

then try help breaking up the words
and sound it out with them.

Phonics Website:
http://www.kidzone.ws/kindergarten/consonants-order.htm

Answer 8

well teach her the abc then from there start little words hoe to spell them like cat,dog,house,etc, reade easy books, and start from there.

Answer 9

Start by reading to her.
Then, start pointing out words and groups of letters/sounds.

This will start motivating her to do it on her own.

Question. Answer. Praise. Explanation... Over and over...

Answer 10

get them into picture books at first so they understand what they are reading. she'll just have to keep trying.