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Everyone who knows me knows I love to read! I also love seeing the children I tutor increase in their reading skills! There is one 4-year-old boy who I was only recently teaching to identify the letters of the alphabet. Since he really seemed to have grasped that knowledge, I knew it was time to start teaching him words.
I started with the sounds each letter makes, stating the letter, a word that begins with that letter (Apple, Bear, Cat) and then making the sound of the letter, having him repeat after me. He's starting to memorize the sounds, and insists that I don't help him if he gets stuck.
I have also started him on word lists. I have a list of ten age-appropriate words that he has been working on remembering as sight words, for the last month or so. He finally memorized all the words and earned his $5 gift card to Walgreens! Now he's on to a new list, but we do go over the other one to keep him familiar with it.
I'm also using Bob Books with him, which have a lot of repetition in them. Today, we read "I Can Draw" and he learned to recognize those words on each page as we went along. I don't expect him to necessarily remember them, but he is enjoying actually reading the little books, which I used with his sister when I started tutoring her. She is in second grade now, and progressing very well.
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