If you have ever taught little children how to read and write, then you already know it is a challenging but rewarding process. As a teacher, your job is to come down to the level of the children you are teaching and find innovative ways to pass the message across to them. This is particularly true when you are teaching basic reading for kids. At this stage, the children you are teaching do not have advanced verbal skills so this means you have to be creative in your approach. Below are some smart ways to make the teaching process a pleasure for the children you are teaching.
Use Story Books
You can start the teaching process by getting some colorful and properly illustrated story books. Make sure you buy books with story lines the children will find intriguing. Read these stories to the children and then tell them they can read the stories themselves if they pay attention to your reading lessons. Now, you have their attention so you can move on to alphabets, simple word formation and other elements of oral reading.
Use Flash Cards
The great thing about using flash cards is that these cards will bring immediate benefits and give you instant results. You pronounce a word and you have a flash card to buttress the fact immediately. This arouses the interest of your students and makes them want to learn some more.
Work on Their Memory
As a teacher, you should not underestimate the power of memory. Fortunately for you, most kids have the memory of the proverbial elephant. This means you can tell them things and you can be sure the will remember almost everything you have said. Now, you can state with the simple concepts of “A for Apple”, “B for Book” and so on. First the children memorize these things without necessarily being able to read them. However, after a while you can start teaching them all about phonemes and the interesting intricacies of word formation.
Start with Simple Words
Basic reading for kids is not as difficult as some experts make it out to be. Just start with simple two letter words like “at, am, it, on” and so on. After the kids master these words, you introduce them to simple three letter words like “cat, bat, sit” and so on. Now, you are making progress already and you can tell from the delightful smiles on the faces of the children you are teaching that you are getting across to them.
Final word
As you can see, teaching kids to read is not rocket science. Just put on your creative hat and you will deliver the goods.
