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10 cartoons that will teach your child to read

Russian Language Day, also known as Pushkin's Day, is celebrated more often by adults and schoolchildren involved in the subject. This concerns kids less often, and in vain: after all, they have to learn Russian for the longest time. We suggest not putting it off for a long time in the educational box and start showing educational cartoons to the little ones - anyway, they are most likely already watching TV, and together with these funny, understandable videos, they will be able to remember the letters faster and better.

Recall that we have a general selection of educational cartoons for kids, and now you have a review of popular videos on YouTube, where they will try to teach your children to read and write in an advanced modern format.

Educational cartoons: Talking ABC

We start from the basics - from the alphabet. Here, plasticine letters turn into animals, make sounds corresponding to their appearance and further transform according to the alphabet. All the names are spoken out (and more than once), the animals look extremely cute, friendly and in the good traditions of plasticine cartoons. They also have an application for tablets and phones - for those who want to poke buttons on their own.

17 minutes of educational joy for children aged 3-6.

Learning to read. Talking letters

The authors of this video (Mizyaka-Dyzyaka channel, name from the creators of Abuuuv! and Azyabatska) know firsthand about the benefits of associations. Their speaking letters are maximally reinforced with images and sounds, where near the "D" and a woodpecker that hammers, and smoke, and "Yo" sparkles with New Year's garlands.

5 minutes of doing their own visual business of letters for the little ones. The rest of the channel's educational cartoons can be found at the link.

Cartoon Russian alphabet from, A to Z from Aunt Owl

Wise Aunt Owl demonstrates the alphabet to children on the example of a variety of concepts, with rhymes, an accompanying bright cartoon and an indispensable important morality next to each letter. Suitable for those kids who are not interested in the pure alphabet, but watching a collection of short cartoons (and at the same time taking in the teaching part) will be a real pleasure.

15 minutes for 3-6 year olds, there is also an abbreviated five-minute version of the alphabet for the more impatient.

Learning to read by syllables with Fixies

Let’s say right away that there are a lot of similar videos - with Fixies, Barboskins, Smeshariki and other cartoon characters to the taste of a child. And this is not exactly a cartoon - rather, a mixture of a video lesson with the fashionable genre today "opening kinder surprises." Here, after reading the words, the kids are really teased with an opened egg with a toy inside, and they also pop the balloons based on the children's delight, pronounce the game lines of the characters and perform other typical actions designed to receive a large number of views from young viewers. And yet, words are really taught to read here - syllable by syllable, slowly, methodically and intelligibly.

32 minutes for children aged 1-7 years old (what a waste, really!).

Learning to read with the zoo Umachka

Two hilarious pencils and their helper Lisa the scissors in an exciting word reading blockbuster. By letters, syllables, whole, with pictures, informative facts and a combination of different animation styles. The channel is seriously aimed at teaching children to read, there is even a video instruction on how to work with their cartoons. Extremely detailed and visual. Well, there is a whole series of similar lessons on the channel - just as bright and favorably distinguished by a reduced level of "lisping" with the target audience.

6 minutes for those who want to teach reading to children from 3 years old.

Learning to read. Educational cartoon by Robert Saakyants

Surely you are familiar with such stylish Soviet cartoons as “Wow, talking fish!”, “In the blue sea, in white foam” and “Look, Maslenitsa!”. Their author is the famous Armenian director Robert Sahakyants, who continues to create animation today. For the little ones. His "Learning to Read" is a large cartoon with recognizable style, strange animals and a visual educational element. Be sure to also mention his ABC for Kids. The fat face on the monitor screen may remind you a little of that very talking fish, but it's even for the better, isn't it?

45 minutes (we said that this is a full-fledged cartoon), we recommend for viewers from 3 years old.

Learn Russian with Piggy

Combine the legendary "Good night, kids!" with Russian lessons - a simple but effective idea. Khryusha, Filya, Stepashka and the host on duty are trying to turn study into a fun and exciting game, and for fans of the original series, such training can really become a useful and organically perceived help.

10 minutes for those running towards the screen to the sounds of “Tired Toys Sleeping” of any age. You can find more educational videos with Piggy at the link.

100 words for 1-3 year olds

Want to expand your baby's vocabulary but don't have time to show traditional pictures, books and cards? Videos like these can be of great help. The words are read out as clearly as possible, they pop up on the screen following a large intelligible photograph of the object, and all together it has a slightly hypnotizing effect on adults, but the target audience of 1-3 years old is quite suitable. It’s better, of course, when parents do such things, but given the lack of time, why not.

100 words in 7 minutes, more videos can be found here.

Luntik. Russian language for kids

In essence, this is not a cartoon, but a video about the passage of an educational game. But it is in great demand among those who do not dare to give tablets in pens yet, preferring to seat the baby for video lessons. However, one does not interfere with the other at all. Well, Luntik is here in his repertoire - infinitely kind, saves butterflies, solves riddles and explains everything.

56 minutes with Luntik for those who have already watched almost five hundred episodes of the main animated series.

Russian language for children. Education for all

If all the previous videos in the review are, among other things, entertaining and not always systematized, then everything is serious here. A real TV school invites you to fully learn Russian through a series of videos with a teacher and his plush friends. And even though Uncle Volodya tries to put knowledge into a form that is interesting for children, these are still real lessons according to a schematic program. They cannot become an alternative to a school subject, but taking a course will definitely be beneficial and will allow you to bring up those topics that have "passed by" in the main educational institution.

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, learn to read the syllables (video lessons)

more about 10 years ago, when a child came to school, he was just beginning to get acquainted with letters, sounds, syllables, and as a result, the first year of study was devoted to the formation of learning to read and write at an elementary level.

Today's fast paced life and educational programs require children to be able to read and write as soon as they enter school. In connection with these norms, preparatory children's centers, tutoring of teachers of preschool and early school development, classes in kindergarten, which takes on the task of teaching children the most necessary knowledge and skills, are of particular importance. You can use all the above methods so that a child in the first grade, coming to the lesson, does not feel flawed. But what to do for those who, for one reason or another, cannot hire a tutor or attend classes outside the home is quite difficult.

I found myself in just such a situation, when my daughter did not go to kindergarten because of her frequent illnesses: there was no good developing center where they could teach reading, and a tutor is not cheap. So I had to master the technique myself, how to teach a child to read syllables.

Many mothers are afraid to do this, they do not want to take responsibility for the development of their children.

I know from my own experience that it is not difficult to teach a child to read or write. In addition, you begin to communicate more and more closely with your own child, who appreciates you and your knowledge. And now in detail.

Contents

1. Where to start?
2. At what age can one think about how to teach a child to read syllables?
3. Let's sing syllables
4. How to put letters into syllables?
5. Sample games
6. Cartoons of Dizyak Mizyak
7. Useful video tutorials on the topic

Where to start?

Like any subject at school, learning to read also requires manuals and special literature, which for us will be the Primer.

Today, publishing houses offer a lot of primers or books on the topic “Learning to read by syllables” with pictures, according to new methods, but for me the main criterion when choosing textbooks is clarity in construction and structured material.

According to the listed features, I offer primers by N.S. Zhukova and A.N. Tkachenko, which can also be brought to the lesson in the 1st grade. They are built in such a way that learning to read by syllables becomes logically justified for the baby.

You can download the book for free here.

You can read a review about Zhukov's primer here.

So, the first step is done.

At what age can one think about how to teach a child to read syllables?

I think the need for this arises at the age of 5-6, but in no case delay learning to read until the child goes to school in the 1st grade. It will be late.

At the age of 5-6 years, learning to read looks like a conscious process, of course, if the baby is accustomed to a book and his mother often read to him at an earlier age.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to seat the child behind a book. Starting from 2-3 years old, do not deprive the baby of the opportunity to determine for himself whether he is interested in learning letters.

My friend's son was reading by syllables at the age of two. From the age of two, my daughter began to take an active interest in the alphabet and knew how almost all the letters of the alphabet looked and were pronounced. Therefore, it is difficult to name definitely the age at which you need to start learning to read.

The child himself will make it clear that he is ready for learning. However, I want to warn against methods that call for hanging cards with letters on the walls from the age of three months so that the baby sees and remembers them. It seems to me that this is harmful, since the child memorizes letters thoughtlessly, without understanding their purpose and not correlating with sounds. The baby’s brain is clogged with things that he doesn’t need yet, distracting from the knowledge of the world around him, which the child is just beginning to discover for himself.

It would be more expedient at this age to use Doman's method of teaching a child to read by memorizing a word.

The main rule when teaching reading is to do it unobtrusively, in the game, otherwise you risk losing interest in the book for life.

Try to interest:

1. start the lesson by molding a letter from dough, plasticine, consider objects whose names begin with the letter being studied;
2. if finances allow, get a "talking" electronic alphabet, cards with letters and pictures, cubes, etc. (when choosing a “speaking” alphabet, I want to warn against a common mistake. Sometimes in such alphabets the letters are pronounced as they are called in the alphabet. We don’t need this! We choose the alphabet, where each letter corresponds to one sound).
3. My daughter and I love to cut out letters from raw potatoes, fry them and eat them, pronouncing each letter. Use your imagination, and there will always be a way to motivate learning.

The next rule for teaching a child to read syllables is to pronounce the sounds correctly. In no case, when naming a letter to a baby, do not pronounce its “official” name in the alphabet.

Designate it with a sound, for example: M - "m", not "em"; Sh - "sh", not "sha". Otherwise, the child will become confused.

There are methods by which it is advised to sing vowel sounds (Zaitsev's method). I think that such an approach is possible only at the level of studying individual sounds and letters.

Singing syllables

When reading by syllables begins, it is better to move away from this method, otherwise the children will not pause between words and not see the boundaries of the words themselves.

• It is better to devote the first lesson to studying the vowels А, О, У, Ы, И, Е. They represent two sounds: E - "ye", Yo - "yo", Yu - "yu", I - "ya".

In different positions they will be read differently. Don't confuse the child.

There are only 6 vowels in the Russian alphabet, so learn these six first.

As for consonants, I advise you to study first of all the sounds and letters M, L, then Sh, Zh, S, Z, i.e. hissing and whistling. The first letter that my daughter mastered was Zh - she really liked its sound.

How to put letters into syllables?

After mastering some letters and sounds, we begin to add syllables. You can download syllables for free here.

We are the first to study open syllables, i.e. ending in a vowel sound, for example: “be”, “me”, “ma”, “pa”, etc. They are easier to pronounce and digest. Then one consonant can be added to the open syllable, for example: “ma-k”, “so-k”. As you study the next consonants, follow the same method: first simple syllables, then more difficult ones.

Be sure to reinforce and review the material covered at every opportunity: while walking on the street, at home when performing everyday activities.

Remember: repetition is the mother of learning.

So, we have learned open syllables. The next stage is closed syllables. They are more difficult to pronounce. These are syllables where the consonant, on the contrary, runs after the vowel: “ap”, “am”, etc. Vary sounds in syllables, changing them, alternating. When the child learns to read syllables well, proceed to the next step - words.

First, we select words with the same type of syllables (ra-ma, mo-lo-ko) or with several open and one closed (ob-la-ko, el-ka).

Do not use words that are difficult to pronounce, such as sister, rain. It will be difficult for the kid to read them, he will start to mumble, as a result, diction will suffer. For now, we do not focus on expressiveness or reading speed. Our task is to learn to read in general. Speed ​​will come with practice, and the intonation filling of a phrase is possible only with a clear understanding of its meaning. This is a later matter.

Sample games

If your child is about to enter school in Grade 1, you can play a role-playing game: student - teacher. In this case, the child can act as a teacher. Have him ask you to write or read a word. Do it obviously wrong: let the child see the mistake and correct you. This will give him self-confidence and the ability to see his own and others' mistakes, correct them. At 5-6 years old, children are quite capable of such exercises. If it is possible to involve children of the same age in classes, then they will be much more productive. Children have a very developed sense of competition, they rarely allow someone to be better. Thus, there will be an incentive to work on yourself and motivation, and the 1st grade will no longer be so scary.

If the child is still not interested in reading even after all the methods tried, or if he does not succeed, do not despair. Keep trying in a playful way. Perhaps the moment will come when he will mentally mature and take part in the game with pleasure. Support the child, do not say that something is not working out for him, rejoice at each new success, step forward.

So, as you can see, the question is, "how to teach a child to read syllables?" not complicated. You just need to show diligence, patience, imagination, make sure that classes are held regularly. If you do not have the opportunity to devote a lot of time to your baby, entrust your grandmother and grandfather with classes, giving the necessary instructions in advance. Sometimes children make contact with older generations more easily and are more willing to learn from them. Use this opportunity, do not be jealous. All the same, the success of the child will be your merit, as you wisely allowed them to manifest in the right place at the right time. Your motto should be the rule: “We read syllables together!”

Cartoons of Dizyak Mizyak

Coming to the 1st grade, the teacher can start learning to read by syllables with the video of the studio "Dyzyak Mizyak". It can be downloaded or watched online here:

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