5 ways To Help Your Child Learn to Read

Helping a kindergartener learn to read fluently presents the proudest moments, and also moments that make you literally want to pull your hair out. It takes consistency, persistency, and for me, guidance from others.

BOB'S Books

Kai’s preschool teacher uses these in her classroom and suggested we get a few sets. We did, and they have been the biggest reading tool we have used yet.

Sight Words

Kai’s preschool teacher uses these in her classroom and suggested we get a few sets. We did, and they have been the biggest reading tool we have used yet.

Reading to Your Child

I made a mistake when Kai first started reading himself, and thought I should basically never read to him again. I was really surprised that once I got back into reading to him daily, he started to change his tone and read sentences the proper way depending upon their punctuation.

Repeating 5 Books Daily for One Week

One of my friends gave me the tip to set up a book bucket or basket that has 3-5 books in it and repeat those books over and over all week before changing them out for a new set.

Using a Reading Log

I started the reading log as a way to show on paper how much reading Kai is doing, mostly for his homeschool kindergarten portfolio. What I didn’t think of before creating it was that it would actually help him with reading.

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Printable Reading Log and Sight Words