How to teach reading for beginners

How to Read with a Beginning Reader

By: Joanne Meier

Most beginning readers are inconsistent. Learn more about the characteristics of a beginning reader and simple techniques and tips to nurture your child's skills and joy in reading.

Sometimes parents of beginning readers wonder if their child is on track with reading. They don't understand why their child can't read a word today they were able to read yesterday. They think their child reads too slowly. They grumble that their child only wants to read the same book over and over again.

Most beginning readers are inconsistent. They may know a word one day but not the next. They may read a particular word correctly on one page, but they have to stop and sound it out again on the next page. When you listen to a beginning reader, you hear short, choppy words with little attention to punctuation. Sometimes a new reader can tell you very little about what they just read.

At the beginning stage of reading, all of these reading behaviors are to be expected. Beginning readers are building their fluency. This means they're working to make several skills, like matching a letter to a sound and decoding, more smooth, accurate and automatic. Without fluency, each word must be decoded, and that takes time and energy. This means that other reading behaviors like reading with expression and comprehension have less of a focus.

When reading with a beginning reader, it's important to do the following:

Give them time to read. Reading is a skill, and like many other skills, it takes time to develop. A beginning reader should spend at least 20 minutes a day reading to or with someone. The books read during this time should be relatively easy for your child.
Let them reread the same books. Rereading the same words over and over again helps build fluency. Over time, you'll notice that your child will stop less often to decode words.
Encourage attention to the print. If your child is stuck on a word, help him look at the first letter(s) and encourage him to sound it out. If it's a difficult word, or one that can't be sounded out, simply supply the word and continue reading.
Take turns reading. By listening to your fluent reading, your child will hear what good readers sound like. After you've read a short passage, ask your child to reread the same passage. This provides a chance for her to practice reading with expression.
Have realistic expectations. For example, students should be reading approximately 60 words per minute correctly by the end of first grade, and 90-100 words per minute correctly by the end of second grade. Your child's teacher can help you learn your child's reading rate.

It's important to nurture your beginning reader in a way that helps make reading a daily habit and a lifelong love. By being aware of what's normal for a beginning reader, and by knowing how to help them progress, you're sure to instill those qualities in your reader.

Joanne Meier (2009)

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25 Effective Ways to Teach Reading to Beginners

The Butterfly Teacher is thrilled to welcome guest writer Sophia Sanchez, an ESL instructor who has extensive knowledge about language development. In this post, she shares 25 practical and effective ways to teach reading to beginners. Get your pen and paper ready…there are tons of teaching tips below!

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How Do You Teach Reading Effectively?

Reading is a complex exercise.

We have to teach kids to read the written word and to build vocabulary simultaneously.

On top of all this, as students grow, they need to master more complex reading skills, such as inferencing.

So what are the best reading strategies that teachers and parents need to teach? And HOW do you teach them?

To best answer these questions, you must approach reading instruction based on your students/child’s developmental level:

Early / Beginning Reader
Emergent Reader
Advanced Reader

You will be able to teach reading more effectively when you recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each developmental level and cater to those.

Tanya–The Butterfly Teacher, shares reading comprehension teaching tips for advanced readers, so in this post, I will share tips for early and beginning readers.

Let’s jump right in!

Vocabulary-Building Strategies for Early Readers

A highly effective way to teach reading to beginners is to help them build extensive background knowledge and vocabulary skills.

As you teach early readers more vocabulary, make sure the learning is playful, because most kids learn best via play!

1–Build Their Oral Vocabulary Through Conversation:
Encourage children to frequently interact verbally with you and others. More conversation will build on the vocabulary they may already know.
2–Combine Pictures with Vocabulary Words & Actions:
For example, put up a poster outside your class with signage for shaking hands, hugging, greeting with a bow/folded hands, or just smiling, and get the kids to point at how they want to be greeted. Encourage the kids to say the words aloud and then act them out.
3–Play Games to Identify Everyday Items:
Boring teaching will make reading seem like a chore! Make learning to read more fun with games that help children build vocabulary.
As children grow more proficient and confident pronouncing words for things like vegetables, fruits, simple objects, colors, plants, actions such as mowing, sweeping, washing, drying, etc.–they are forming the building blocks for strong reading fluency.

Simple Ways to Teach Pre-Literacy Skills

The vocabulary word building tips from above help beginning readers develop more background knowledge that influences their reading.

Here are simple but effective ways to teach reading to beginners who need more pre-literacy skills.

4–Introduce Kids to Books With No Text:
A few of my favorite examples for beginning readers are:
Free Fall by David Weisner,
Up and Up by Shirley Hughes,
and Noah’s Ark by Peter Spier.
As you share these picture books, let each child “read it” on their own, say the story out loud for others, or even interpret a page in their own words to develop pre-literacy skills.

Wordless books or simple word books such as this book set help early readers build essential vocabulary skills. Click HERE or the image to learn more. (Amazon affiliate link)

5–Start a Story Prompt:
Use flash cards or picture books to begin a make-believe story. Then allow your students/kids to create the next part or line of the story you’ve started. This helps them build the foundation for sequencing in reading.
6–Read Simple Rebus Readers:
These fun books help beginning readers answer your story prompts, identify sight words, and build vocabulary–which are all important pre-literacy skills.

What is the Main Difference Between Alphabetic Principle & Phonemic Awareness?

Let’s pause here to quickly dive into an important topic that relates to beginning readers.

Alphabetic understanding vs. letter-sound relationships!

What in the world is alphabetic principle and how is it different from phonemic awareness?

Many people use the words “alphabetic principle” interchangeably with “phonics.” It relates to letter-symbol relationships and spoken words.

Phonemic awareness involves breaking word parts down to isolate and identify specific sounds or phonemes.

To effectively teach reading to beginners, parents and teachers must use different teaching strategies for these two reading skills!

Let’s continue with specific examples

Easy Ways to Teach Alphabetic Principle

7–Introduce Single Letters and Their Sound:
English is not a phonetic language, but language learning is a lot about listening and ears like sounds. Confusion can set in but reducing pace and increasing fun games for practice can help.
8–Get Kids to Say Words Which Start With That Sound:
This can be combined with the same teaching strategies that you use to teach vocabulary words. Put pictures with words next to everyday items. Emphasize the sound that initial letter makes.
9–Give Sounds for Single Vowels:
Like ‘e’ for egg
10–Give Sounds for Single Consonants:
Like ‘h’ for hut

Tactile letter activities like this one help beginning readers build letter recognition and phonemic awareness. Click HERE or the image for more details. (Amazon affiliate link)

11–Do Kinesthetic & Tactile Activities to Learn Letters:
Write letters in the sand or in shaving cream. Use magnetic letters, ropes, and other items that beginning readers can touch as a fun way to build letter recognition.
12–Identify Letters among other letters (like a design:)
Before kids can identify letters as letters, they can play at spotting them. E.g Write ‘egg’ on the board with space in between. Now hold up the letter ‘e’ and ask the kids to spot it in what’s written. Add more words on the board which include ‘e’, and ask them to spot all the occurrences.
13–Complete Letter Crafts Decorating Objects Which Start With That Letter

Ideas for Helping Beginning Readers Build Phonological Awareness

14–Play Phonological Awareness Games:
Pair your students in two teams. One team will say words and the other team has to say a word with the sound it ends on
For example: one team may say the word “red.” The other team will need to say a word like “dog” since the word red ends with “d.”
This type of game can be difficult for some kids, so feel free to modify it with flashcards, pictures, or other ways to assist kids. If it’s too frustrating for them, they will not feel confident to play, which will lead to possible tantrums.
15–Get Kids to Call Out Rhyming Words With You

16–Form Various Words With The Same Set of Sounds
17–Play Rhyming Games With Nonsense Words:
Kids love gibberish! Plus, using nonsense words heightens their awareness of word sounds and word parts.
18–Try basic tongue twisters: (you will have kids rolling in laughter!)
She sells sea shells on the sea shore, but the shells she sells are not the real sea shells’. It’s better to start with the first four words, and slowly add the rest meaningfully in steps, or it might turn into a gibberish spewing noisy classroom!

What’s the Absolute Best Way to Teach Children to Read?

Kids learn at their own pace.

As no two kids are alike, teachers really have to individually nurture each child on their reading journey. So there’s no ONE absolute best way to teach reading to every single child.

This post features lots of effective ways to teach reading to beginners so that you have more than one strategy to try.

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Here’s hoping for wonderful journeys in the world of reading!

Author Bio: Sophia is a newbie online ESL/EFL instructor. She is a passionate educator and blogs about education on her personal blog. She found her true calling — teaching — while she was juggling writing and a 9-5 desk job.

Teaching a child to read in English: a simple technology or an art?

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First, let's deal with the answer to the question of why in our world of high digital technologies, the time of the dominance of You-Tube and Tik-Toc - well, the time when all the information of interest can not only be listened to, but also viewed, why waste time and learn such a seemingly completely unpopular activity as reading?

If you ask the children themselves, more than half will even say that reading in their native language is boring and uninteresting! And then they force you to learn to read in English too !!!! Speak - yes!, listen - yes, yes! Watch - yes, yes, yes! But reading - nooo . ..

However, it is necessary to explain to the child that reading is not only reading fiction in English. There are so-called "small forms" - reading to obtain the necessary, and sometimes vital information:

Reading signs, signs.
Reading a menu in a cafe or restaurant.
Reading titles.
Reading instructions and recipes.
Reading composition.
Read application rules, etc.

All of the above in no way means reading full pages of text that fold into thick books.

How to prepare a child for learning to read in English?

It is not clear when to start teaching children to read in English. The main thing to understand is that the very study of English with children should by no means begin with learning to read. Rather, reading is introduced at the next stage, as a way to consolidate existing knowledge, skills and abilities. It is better that by this time the child already knows how to read in his native language. He possessed purely technical skills - to add syllables from letters, and words from syllables. Then, when teaching to read in English, attention will be focused only on sound-letter and letter-sound relationships, and the child’s fatigue from the process will be minimal.

It is also desirable that by the time reading begins, the child is already familiar with the oral side of the English language, so that at least a minimum supply of sounding samples of speech in English is stored in memory. This will help to correctly analyze the auditory image of the sounding word and correlate it with the visible letter image and vice versa.

How to teach children to read in English?

The process of learning to read can be conditionally divided into 3 stages:

Stage 1 - memorization of sound-letter and letter-sound relationships.
Stage 2 - familiarization with the rules of reading and training.
Stage 3 - fixing the basic rules of reading, the ability to transfer and vary them on the material of mini-texts, the development of a language guess.

The process of learning to read can not be positioned as learning. It is better that the child perceives everything that happens as a game. First, as a game with sounds and letters, and then as a game of words that form sentences.

First stage

The purpose of the first stage is to memorize the letters of the English alphabet and the sounds that these letters stand for, with special attention to memorizing consonants. This issue is covered in detail in “English sounds and letters for children. How to make friends with them? and "How to learn the English alphabet with children: instructions for use." For detailed information, we advise you to follow the links and read. Here we summarize the main points.

Firstly, the memorization of letters should go from an auditory image to a visual image, because oral speech is primary in relation to written.
Secondly, all sounding material must be supported by visual images. They said “dog” - they showed a picture (or they showed a picture, and the child said “dog”), then we exaggerate and separate the first sound - ddddd - then we show the letter, both capital and lowercase Dd.
Thirdly, we actively connect the process of activity. Remember that children cannot focus on the same thing for a long time. Therefore, the activity must be alternated: listen-talk-watch-write. Be sure to include a letter! Children love it - to write with a pen like adults. Just do not demand even, clear letters. Let them not fall into the cells, let them be a little crooked and oblique. Let the child write as it turns out. Children will be incredibly happy with what they wrote themselves!

Do not forget to praise! It is important.

We remember that the main activity for children is play, and that all children are great creators. Letters and sounds, since we started studying them, are our friends. And it is customary to play with friends and you can always come up with something interesting. Therefore, try to create a vivid visual image from each letter: decorate it, turn it into an animal or any other association. The task is for the baby to have a strong bridge between sounds and letters in his head, then, firstly, when he sees d-o-g, he will read and see not just a combination of letters, but a dog; secondly, the sound of Ssssnake, sssun, etc. will be strongly associated with the image of the letter “Ss”.

The second stage

The second stage - mastering the most general rules of reading - should be divided into 3 parts:

Acquaintance with the rules of reading closed syllables.
Acquaintance with the rules for reading open syllables.
Acquaintance with the rules of reading diphthongs.

When getting acquainted with the rules of reading closed syllables in the child's memory, firstly, the sound-letter images of consonants are fixed, and secondly, the child begins to read the simplest words. This, in turn, creates a situation of success in the mind and motivates for further learning.

We build the process itself according to the principle of feasibility and accessibility, starting from the simplest vowel - “o”, then “e”, then “i”, then “a”, “u”. You can end with one-syllable words with "y". This will be a bridge to the transition to reading open syllables.

When introducing a rule for reading, we try to choose those words that the child already knows orally. Recognizing them while reading will cause great joy. At the stage of training and consolidation, on the contrary, it is good to select unfamiliar words, but always with pictures-meanings: the vocabulary will expand, consonants will be repeated, the child will definitely read, and not guess.

At the stage of training and consolidation, we introduce gamification techniques. Children love to win and break records. Therefore, if from the very beginning of learning to read, you introduce reading for a while using a stopwatch and record the results in a “success diary”, then the child will see progress and this will stimulate him to learn to read further.

How to enter reading rules and practice?

There are several options. You can make cards. And you can find a cartoon. The materials on the Maple Leaf Learning site of the “Let’s read” series (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkPO3qpUCg&t=2s) are perfect, where the vowel sound is clearly pronounced, to which consonants are gradually selected. The child can repeat. Due to the fact that the words do not appear entirely, but by letter, even the smallest will quickly learn to read.

Reading simulators can be found for consolidation and practice. Trainers are lists of words joined by one or more reading rules. There are a lot of such simulators on the Internet! You can download for free or find options online (for example, here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPVtHmdLrdV-cAi4yTnGWZwf35_BH0uUN ) and read-read read!

When the child has already learned to read several vowels, the exercise "twos" or "triples" - phrases or phrases of words with different consonants - is good. Such exercises are a transitional stage to reading entire appendices. Mindfulness develops, the rules for reading consonants are fixed. You can even pick up words that differ precisely in consonants, for example, big bag. This exercise is also great for practicing open and closed syllables.

It is recommended to alternate pure reading exercises with games. For example, children love to collect words from the letters of the alphabet. It's almost like writing a dictation, only collecting words from letters is much more interesting! When enough words have accumulated in the stock, you can try to play word-making.

The so-called "ladders" are also very suitable for reading practice. Ladders are also columns of words, but they are grouped not one at a time, but according to the principle of steps - in each new line, the number of words increases by exactly one, while the previous words are repeated. So, the ladder starts with one word, and by the fifth line there will already be five of them. The "ladder" technique is a wonderful tool for teaching how to read a whole sentence, where, as you know, there are words that are read differently. Thanks to constant repetition, reading complex combinations is remembered. Ladders can also and should be read for a while.

Stage 3 - learning to read whole texts in English!

You can start entering mini-texts even after getting acquainted with closed syllables. These will be the simplest texts of 3-4 short sentences, something like:

This is a cat.

The cat is black.

It is fat.

It is in the bag.

Be sure to add a picture! Firstly, the picture decorates, and secondly, it creates a visual visual image. The child understands what he is reading about and, if he forgot the word, then looking at the picture, he remembers. If an unfamiliar word slips in the text, the picture helps to develop a linguistic guess.

Descriptive texts alone are not enough. Again, not everyone loves to read. But you have to train somehow, what to do? Do not forget that texts can carry different semantic meanings. The task is to put the child in such conditions in which it is impossible to do without reading. First we combine reading and other activities. For example, coloring. The key to the coloring book is the English text where the answers are hidden. It is necessary to read and color "according to the instructions" in the text.

The second option is “finishing”. When something is missing in the picture or you need to finish the objects. In such tasks, the repetition of colors, thematic vocabulary and grammatical constructions, for example, prepositions, are also combined if we are looking for where and what is located. Such tasks are very exciting and "force" to read even the most non-readers. Have you tried to draw a monster with a child according to the description? What about the unseen miracle beast with three heads and five tails? No?!..

A variation of the second task is, for example, “draw a route” or “read and identify”. The essence of these tasks is to draw attention to detailed reading! If this is a route, then for a complete reproduction, you can not miss a single nuance! The same goes for the second task. Usually a picture is given, which shows a lot of similar objects or people and you need to find something specific. Such tasks not only develop reading skills, but also contribute to better memorization of words, and passive mastering of grammar.

You can also include physical activity in reading lessons. How? Very simple! What about crosses? We hide hint notes around the house, where, of course, it is described in detail what needs to be done and where to go. The idea of an adventure quest is so exciting for children that they will have to read and do it willy-nilly! If there is a surprise waiting at the end... The child will be ready to read in English all day, if only the game is repeated again and again!

How to develop children's reading skills in English

In addition to the rules of reading, there are a huge number of exceptions in the English language that can discourage even the most diligent from reading. Over time, when a certain lexical base accumulates in memory, the child develops a mechanism of “action by analogy”. This means that when a new word is encountered, the letter image is analyzed and a sample is retrieved from memory for “comparison”. It sounds paradoxical, but the accumulation of such patterns is impossible without regular reading.

Either listening and reading in parallel, or watching videos with subtitles can help. The main idea is to be able to hear the "role model" - the correct pronunciation. If listening and reading is, after all, a laborious task and attention may not be enough, then watching fairy tales and cartoons with subtitles will bring pleasure to many! You can recommend cartoons based on famous fairy tales from the Pink Fong website (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-X4xVb-jNA). Cartoons have clear voice acting, simple text, large letters in subtitles and a recognizable plot.

How to start real reading in English?

Reading in English should, first of all, bring pleasure not so much from the process itself, but from the awareness of “I read and understand”! If the child understands that this is not scary, but very exciting, he will not be torn off from reading. Therefore, you need to start, firstly, with reading according to interests, and secondly, the number of pictures should prevail over printed text.

Therefore, comics in English are ideal for the first reading! Comics are made according to famous cartoons, if the child is “in the know”, then he will be interested in learning new details about his favorite characters. What is the child interested in? Wheelbarrows? Thomas the Tank Engine, Paw Patrol? Comics can be downloaded on the Internet for free.

What do English children like to read?

True connoisseurs of English will strive to read original books, ie. those read by English children. The favorite work of English-speaking children is the stories about the witch Winnie and the black cat Wilba. What kind of adventures did not happen to them! A short gripping story, funny illustrations, clear language made this book a favorite far beyond the UK. On the Internet, you can download both the stories themselves and audiobooks.

Another favorite character is Peter Rabbit and Paddington Bear. The language level is higher, there are many descriptions. But the stories will not leave anyone indifferent.

And, of course, how would reading in English be possible without Harry Potter! Many people want to learn English just for the sake of reading stories about this hero in the original.
So, the process of learning to read in English can be turned into an exciting activity that will make the child fall in love with both the process itself and the English language. But if supervision by professionals is required, video lessons in the online English school for children Novakid will become an indispensable tool for children and parents in learning the language. Our teachers will be able to teach children not only to read, but also to speak English, because learning is built as communication and only in English! Worth a try, the trial lesson is free.

How to teach a child to read English from scratch: quickly and correctly

Hello, my dears.

Very often parents want their children to learn English as soon as possible. And the skill of reading in this matter is far from the last place. But if in Russian at some intuitive level it is clear what needs to be done, then English is already a problem. So mothers turn to me for advice on how to teach a child to read in English.

On the course “Teach a child Read in English in 5 weeks”

Go to the rules of reading English vowels

Go to the rules for reading English consonants

9000 9 Contents:

Important

Getting Started

Transcription

The Unconventional Way

Reading Exercises

And today I decided to answer all your questions: how to do it at home, how to do it quickly and correctly, and which exercises you should pay attention to in the first place.

Before you start

To teach your child to read from scratch, you need to learn at least a few words in another language. Believe me, if you immediately sit down to learn to read, you will only get screams, tantrums and a wild disgust for learning the language in the future.

While you are still very young and have not gone to grade 1, just study new words, phrases together, memorize them by ear, teach your child to sound English words. It is important that he understands what the word he pronounces means.

Most educational institutions include a foreign language in their curriculum only when students enter the 2nd grade. But it will not be difficult for your baby to start learning the basics immediately after moving into 1st grade.

By this time, children usually understand how to read in their native language correctly, they know that letters form certain sounds and add up to words. Trust me, in this case, the learning will go much faster. By the way, if your child is already a schoolboy, I advise you my article on how to help a child with English at school.

Where to start?

If we talk about how to properly teach a child to read in English, then the most correct answer would be - start learning the alphabet . You need to do this in the most interesting ways for the child: teach him with the help of songs, toy cubes or magnets, cards and coloring books - in general, everything that your imagination gets to.

But remember that letters and sounds are different things, especially in English. Therefore, when training, pay special attention to this. By the way, your child will quickly learn this moment if a special children's course from LinguaLeo (you need to register on the site, and then go to the tab Courses -->> Thematic -->> English for the little ones ) - Milana and I really liked it at one time, so I recommend it . Plus, the first section is free!

The Phonics method of teaching a child to read is becoming increasingly popular among parents and teachers. Its essence lies in the fact that your children do not learn letters separately from words. They learn the SOUND, which in most cases forms this letter. That is, they remember the letter “s” not as “es”, but as “s”. It's like in Russian: we call the letter "em", but pronounce "Machine".

Remember, my dears, that all children are different and sometimes remember information for a very long time, so do not rush your baby, and even more so move on to learning something new, until you have mastered the previous material to 100!

So, if you have mastered the “Alphabet” stage, then you can proceed to words. It is very important to understand that in English the logic of reading words is different from the Russian language. In English, it is important to look at the number of syllables in a word, letter combinations, and also learn to remember reading the most common words without any rules.

To facilitate the above task, I created a special course "Teaching a child to read English in 5 weeks" . It is a basic step for children who are just starting to get acquainted with written English or have difficulty reading English words in elementary school. The basis of the course is audio lessons and visual support for them, my short and understandable explanations and a lot of practice. Read more about it in the article (follow the link above)

Transcription is the basis of the basics

One of the most important things in learning a language both at school and at home is correct transcription.

Transcription is a graphical representation of the pronunciation of (I dedicated an article to her and , where I sorted out all the icons, gave exercises with answers and shared the secrets of remembering the signs of English transcription ) .

At first, it seems that reading the transcription is simply unrealistic, because there are some incomprehensible “hooks and icons”. But I assure you, everything is much simpler. Below I will show you in the most detailed way how all the sounds of the English language are read. If you already know how the English alphabet sounds, then it will be interesting for you to see how the letters you already know are indicated in transcription.

But besides the sounds that we know from the alphabet, there are also sounds in English that are not shown in alphabetical letters, but are created by certain combinations of them. Let's look at their transcription and voicing in Russian speech (a separate article on the transcription of English letters and the pronunciation of important letter combinations is in the tables).

An unconventional way

There is another way to teach children to read. It is practiced both in teaching the native language and a foreign one. This method consists in starting learning not from parts to the whole, but vice versa, from the whole to parts, that is, from whole words to letters. I would recommend using this method from early childhood - from the age of 3. On this page you will find popular English words for children (voiced), which, if desired, can be printed and used in the form of cards - so the child will quickly remember not only their translation, but and the correct way to read.

This method is based on the child's ability to associate a written word with a combination of sounds heard. And given the fact that usually children's memory is many times better than our adult memory (if there is a moment of interest, of course!), then this method can bring much faster results than the traditional one. I will definitely tell you more about it, but in a separate article. Subscribe to my blog so you don't miss out.

Practice, Practice, Practice

Oh, how I love the practical parts. So today I have prepared for you some exercises with words that will help your child quickly master this difficult task - reading in English. The essence of the exercise is grouping words by sounds. A child, reading a certain group of words, will remember the combinations of letters that he sees at the same time. Thus, a clear concept will form in his head, how this or that word is read. Of course, there are exceptions in English ... a dime a dozen, and you can't keep up with all of them. Therefore, the more your child reads, the faster he will learn to read correctly. 9

game, came, make, Kate

9012

, gun, cut, but, nut

twice, ice, rice, mice, lice

, lot

gone, done

fork, cork

cope, smoke, rose, nose

here, mere, fear, tear

pure, cure, lure

mare, bare, dare, care

shy, sky, my, by, buy

And here I have some very interesting tables in store, according to which it will be easy and interesting for your little one to learn to read.

About the course "Teaching a child to read English in 5 weeks"

And if you still have questions - and I'm sure that if they don't exist at the moment, they will definitely appear - then welcome to the comments.