As a teacher with 16 years of experience, I can say you nailed it. Keeping it simple and focusing on the actual sounds the letters make is incredibly effective. Fantastic video, and you have a really great and clear presentation style. I'm going to recommend this channel to teachers and anyone with kids.
Thank you so much… Being a retired reading interventionist this has been eye opening on how we were trained to teach reading. I have been retraining my brain to help my first grader read the right way!
The problem with this is that it affects their comprehension. They are so glued to the pronunciation of the words they don’t even know what the meaning of the passage is.
@@GM-pu2lxdon’t they need to decode before they can comprehend? I’m a first year teaching teaching 1st grade so I’m trying to learn as much as I can as there was no phonics class in college. And now that I’m teaching it’s, here’s this book follow the curriculum, good luck! I’m noticing that my students who can decode any book you put in front of them no problem struggle with comprehension when you ask what the book is about. They need to work on going into more detail. My kids who cannot read yet can’t even focus on comprehension because they aren’t able to read the words yet and their cognitive load is spent on trying to sound everything out.
As a physician, I have taught a lot of medical students and premeds. And Now with young ones at home, I find your videos extremely helpful as my teaching style isn’t always conducive to my 5 year olds. Thank you!
Homeschool Teacher here and Tutor I agree with this method 👏🏽 You can tell when a child has learned to memorize the shapes of words and when they have learned blends. Knowing blend sounds helps give your child the ability to read new words with much more ease 👍🏽🤓
Hi! I saw where you mentioned you’re a homeschool teacher-I’m trying to decide whether I should homeschool my 5 year old or put him in public school but I have a dilemma: he struggles with speech (we are putting him in speech therapy), he struggles with identifying the letters of his ABC, he struggles to identify his numbers, and he can’t read yet. A huge fear for me is not having the capability to homeschool him because of his issues he’s struggling with. I don’t know what else to do and I’m afraid he might fall behind IF I put him in public school. I also have a 2-year old and am pregnant with my third! I’m so stressed and don’t know what to do! Any advice from a homeschool teacher?
@@cookie6199 Congratulations On your 3rd 🥳💕 I have 3 kids too ☺️ I understand your position completely. I always tell parents you have it in you to homeschool, because God blessed you with your kids and He knew what they need, he’s blessed you with. You know your child and can create lesson plans to cater to their specific needs and learning style. Have you had him tested for dyslexia? There are many different forms of dyslexia and if he does have it, you will be able to understand how to assist him better. I tutored my godson for a while who has a form of dyslexia. My bestie, his mom, found out he had it after the school he was in kept treating him like he was less than and unable to learn. She knew he was so smart and could not understand what was going on. She took him out of that school, found out it was dyslexia, started homeschooling him and he has been thriving ever since! Your son may not have dyslexia and just needs a different way to help him with letter and number recognition. For example, my eldest can recall things from memory just from a spoken lesson, while my youngest learns best with working with his hands. I want to encourage you, you can teach, and your child can learn. I’ll type a whole page on here, so if you want to talk more feel free to DM on IG and we can set up a call or something 🤓♥️ Hope this helps some ♥️
@cookie6199 Home school should offer IEP services. They have speech therapists. You should be good by putting your kid in home school. My kids are on a waiting list for home school. When you go to orientation they will explain everything about the programs they offer to kids and many fun things to do, too.
Same here my 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration.
My children are grown and this video just happened to pop up as a suggestion for me but seems like it may be something you want to consider. If not this then definitely some Phonics books. I'm 60 and it was easier to learn to read back in the day because we were taught to sound out words through Phonics. The schools now are just teaching the children to memorize words. That's not really an effective way to learn to read. Hang in there it'll be ok. At 7 your baby is still young enough for you to help them make the corrections needed. Be well and get Phonics books.
My son is 11 years old. And cannot read. He has autism and ADHD. And as a result, I am trying to teach him myself. Your video is making this feel so much less daunting. Thank you. Your approach is accessible, and understandable.
This is really helpful, I have a friend with autism that's 14 that doesn't know how to read. His parents don't help with his school work that much and I'm trying to teach him how to read on my own. Thanks
English is not my first language i learned it at 15yrs old and even though I can read and write it I didn't know how to teach my little one something i never learned myself like to sound out the words. Thank you! I'm excited to be learning together with my little one ; )
Thank you so very much for your video. I appreciate your enthusiasm and even your method. Additionally, (and i say this as a mother, grandmother, former bookstore owner and retired early childhood teacher) it is vitally important that all cell phones and other electronics not be given to babies because they will destroy (or sabotage) their appetite for books. I can't stress this enough. To give a little one a phone or computer before they're hooked on books is like giving them dessert before they eat their peas and carrots. Also, the best tried and true way to teach a young one to read is to role model reading for them (naturally) every single day; don't make it a chore. Read to them every day especially at bedtime using books with rhyming words-- like fox in sox by dr seuss. And, take them to the library and sit in the children's section with them while looking at all the books and take some home and return them in a week to get more. (The library's offerings are free to borrow after all.) They'll be the head of the class by the time they start school. Keep up the good work!
This is very true. The screens and electronics have destroyed the natural curiosity and the yearn for reading. My children are spread out in age and I see a huge difference in my older verses the younger. Youngest had tech at a very young age. I wish I could go back and change it.
Taught my daughter to read as a toddler 45 years ago. She graduated from HS 3 years early. Did this a a single mother who hadn’t finished college yet. Keep up the good work parents. ❤
My kiddo has struggled so much with blending. Thank you so much for breaking this down. I dropped all our English and went right back to learn to read and blending out loud w nothing is a part of it and I now see how this step is so very important. I feel like this is the piece we have been missing and maybe we are going to get back on track with it this way!
You a are teacher of teachers. I have have been trying to teach children how to read, but this short video has opened my insight of doing it. Much love from Zambia 🇿🇲
This is gold. My son is going to Kindergarten and I will be using this. Thank you! Btw, we are a trilingual home and thankfully my spoken English is impeccable. But folks who English is their second language and have a thick accent- don’t try this at home. lol. I just chuckled thinking of some of my relatives attempting this. 😂
You showed me to teach sounds first and our 25mo has it down pact. Almost started on paper but glad I came here first now that we’re ready to blend! TY TY
I've taught all 5 of my kids to read phonetically with the 1970s curriculum alphaphonics, its so worth it to teach them to read phonetically not by sight first.
I homeschooled mine with phonetics like I was taught in the 1970's - I literally can't hold a conversation with anyone under 50. No one has a vocabulary anymore.
I just responded to someone else's comment that schools used to teach phonics. Unfortunately they're just teaching them to memorize certain words. That's not really teaching them how to read. It's not the teachers, it's the ones who decide what the school's curriculum will be.
@@carolwilliams8840 yeah agreed, my 12 year old can now read at almost a college level and I taught her myself how to read phonetically, now she has the skill to decode words she’s never encountered. We do need some sight word memorizing because they don’t follow the traditional English language but it certainly shouldn’t be taught as the bulk of the curriculum
This is a fascinating subject for me as we have a friend with a 7 year old and they are quite behind in their reading. I have an 8 month old so I want him to be hitting the markers/developmental milestones when he gets to the age. I come from Zimbabwe and English is my second language. I cannot remember anything about phonics save for the fact that from the age of eight I started reading the national newspaper and I would consume everything and check the Dictionary too! I think by the time I was 10 I had stopped actively using a Dictionary as the meaning of most words was clear from the surrounding context. I guess for me the trick will be trying to get my son to the level!lol. I must add I'm a reader and I read a lot of novels; books about the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bible, magazines, books from the school library (all this before the Internet)
@@Magdalena287-Hi Magdalena. Is there a specific book that you used? I can try and get it on Amazon or eBay. I'm based in the UK so maybe it might be a book that wasn't available here in the 70s to start with
Thank you for this lesson! I’m a reading intervention para at an elementary school. It makes me feel good that you are teaching how to teach while using the methods you are teaching. I’m going to binge your videos now This is exactly how I was taught to teach kiddos how to read. One curriculum is called “sound partners” where it’s exactly what it sounds like. You sit with one child at a time. We call the long E the magic E. Different curriculum but kinda fun. ❤
Thanks! I'm teaching my little brother to read because he just got out of kindergarten and my goal is to teach him to read before the summer ends. This video helped a lot.
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it! I teach kindergarten and I have adjusted some of the ways I teach my students based on what you have taught. What you say rings true.
Not gonna lie, I had my doubts (very small, but still there) when going through your process, but the logic looked sound enough to stick with it. When I told my friends about it, they definitely thought teaching sounds without letter names was crazy. But just a week ago my 3-year-old tried to read the word "Recycle" by herself, without being asked to (she read it as rek-yuh-kelleh, but the fact that she even got that far was amazing). I'm definitely glad I stuck with it.
Thank you. I love your videos. This is how I learned to read in Brazil. Portuguese is my first language and we’d learn to blend all the constant with with vowels. Example: La, Le, Li, Lo, Lu and we’d practice that over and over. My little one is currently learning letter sounds
Hi! I'm also from Brazil and I would like to ask you a question. Are you teaching your child to read in Portuguese or english? I have a multilingual child and I'm so confused on how to do that and which language I should start! 🤯
You’re an angel sent for this generation. I am heartbroken to know how many kids at school can’t read but just get pushed through until they get held back. God bless you. ❤
Thank you, thank you thank you for this I am now at ease and I have taken some of the stress and anxiety out of what comes next with helping my baby learn to read I truly appreciate these videos
This is how I taught my son to read at 2 ½ & my daughter at 4. This SO works. The first word my daughter sounded out and blended was monkey, at age 4. I sent her to school to "learn" in first grade. The other students were only memorizing star words and pictures. The school "tested" her knowledge by seeing if she had memorized star words. But they never asked her to READ them. Consequently, they said she was behind and I was mailed an official letter of educational neglect and could be charged for negligence. I didn't realize how "dumb" our schools really were until this experience. Today, both my children are very successful and know how to educate themselves on any subject matter. It all started with the sound books I bought 30 years ago. Thank you for going online with this.😊❤
Thank you so much ❤️ I'm a first time homeschooling mom. I have been struggling to teach my son and had the right start, but when it comes to blending I have been stumped. I didn't even realize that was the issue until yesterday and then found your video. This is really helpful! To think I was going to go to sight words and flash cards like that next! I'm making the letter sound cards today to help with sound recognition
I've been homeschooling for almost 10 years and have 5 kids, look into the curriculum alphaphonics, I taught all of them to read phonetically with this curriculum. You never want to teach sight words first, when he gets to higher reading he wont be able to decode new words if he's relying on memorization
I’m only a few minutes into my first video of yours and I’m hooked. I have an eight-year-old son struggling with reading and writing. He has a way of avoiding writing and reading spaces out.
Thank you. Teaching my son blending sounds is the difficult part for me and him. He doesn't know how to blend them and this will help me teach him how. He getting better and I know that progress will continue
I remember I learnt how to read by learning the sound of the letters based on their stories. Each letter was a character, for exemple "a" is a clumsy man with a cane and once we told him that his cane was backward, he would go "aaaa !". It made learning so fun through the stories !
@@Eye_Am_Divine_33 Unfortunately I am a french native speaker so it was in french, however you can see examples of the letters with their personality, the system is called "Les Alphas" and I suppose there is some kind of equivalent in English somewhere
Thank you for helping me teach my son to read, I’m homeschooling and our current curriculum doesn’t go over these steps he knows all his letter sound just didn’t know how we could accurately practice blending
First time father here, have twin boys they are 3 and have two different ways they prefer to learn. Im looking to be their teacher so this incredible help.
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Thank you for this video. I really appreciate all the information you gave without a pressure filled sales pitch. This has relieved so much anxiety for me regarding teaching my children to read. It seemed so overwhelming before but I can see a clear path now. Thank you again. 🙏
Teach short vowels sounds first, then two letter sounds with consonant and short vowel sounds (m a) - cycle through each consonant and vowel, once they get them all correct, move on to three letter words ( m a t) , (b a t )
This is what I intuitively did with my child, who is 4 and can read on her own. Because she knows all the sounds, and we’d practice learning them only a few at a time, for a short amount of time each day, she can sound out words for her self, which also builds confidence and self esteem. We also read at least an hour everyday. This has worked wonders for us.I can definitely say this method is great for teaching kids and expands as they learn more and more because they know the fundamentals
You're welcome! Glad it helps. My free 30 minute training has helped lots of families teaching their children to read too if you want to check it out: www.toddlersread.com/free-workshop
Thank you so much for this! My son's starting kindergarten in the fall and I want to work on his reading skills over the summer, this laid it out really well and was super easy to understand! He already knows his letter sounds, now I can work on teaching him how to blend and then go from there. Thank you again!
My 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration. Thank you ❤
Thank you for posting this video. It was so helpful for my daughter. I thought that she had the letter sounds down at her age, but I realize that she was struggling with reading and didn’t understand why, but after watching this video, I realize that she struggles with the vowel sounds, so we are now working on mastering all 26 letter sounds.
Without ever watching your video when I show my daughter a word I sound it for her lol because I noticed when I ask her what letter it is she says the letter like M but hearing it in my head I said this isn’t going to help her.. she’s going to kinder now so thank you!!! I am trying my best to help her stay sharp and on top
Yes I agree that this is a simple and clear video. However, profoundly Deaf kids cannot access reading this way. I am a parent of a Deaf child and reading visually is very effective for my child. Phonics only work if you have access to the sounds. Even technologically aided children with implants or hearing aids find it challenging to sound out all words. They instead do a combination of phonics and visual/sight. What I'm saying is that visual or sight reading isn't all bad. It is for some students the only way they can learn to read.
I've got flashcards with first words on them and this is exactly how I'm teaching my son. A week in and its starting to click. I haven't heard of "blend" sounds before, it makes sense so I'll definitely be doing that. This is a great video. Thanks *my son starts homeschool at the end of the year, if anyone has any good homeschool resources for young children that are really good, I would really appreciate it.
Some of the most helpful tips and advice I’ve seen! Thank yo because I have really been struggling trying to teach my 5 year old to read before starting kindergarten but I found some new confidence while watching your video so thank you!
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. My 4-year-old daughter was being taught compound words with pictures. I did some research on how I could better help her. She was clueless about blending words. We've watched your video together. Before the end of the video, she was blending the 3 letter words.
My 7 year old is struggling with reading so i am trying to find how i can better help him. This is what im going to work with him on. Thank you for this awesome advice. Makes sense and seems a lot easier than trying to have him memorize every word.
I’ve been teaching my kids to read, started with letter sounds then 2 letter blends then cvc and now we are doing digraphs. I find that when we are practicing words, they read just fine but there are times that I’ll ask him to read something and maybe if he is caught off guard or if he feels he’s on the spot maybe ( I dont intentionally do this) he will add in a sound that is not there and then I have to tell him that sound isn’t there and then he gets it right. Is there something I need to be watching out for or doing to increase fluency when we try reading sentences? Thank you! Love your videos!
This might help! th-cam.com/users/shortsz4epkQcUSnU?si=BIjQeW8SrfhkT8_y I also have fluency passages in my Reading Rules course that have words and sentences repeating the focus sound in the words (like ch: chip, much, etc).
Thank you. I’m going to take these steps. My son is a behind and he just entered the first grade. He knows his basics sounds but can’t blend well. I was going through some stuff and not focused. I want to make up and get him reading this school year.
I honestly got teary-eyed when you showed how to practise blending, because it made so much sense and showed me all the things we often erronously take for granted when trying to teach. This also reminds me of trying to learn hiragana and katakana, my brain likes to take the shortcut of learning the words rather than merging the characters, which means I never really learn how to read new words. Learning Kanji is a different story though…
Thank you for this. I homeschooled my kids with phonics and all went well. Now, I have 3 adopted kids with Down syndrome, and we have memorized the sounds, but can't seem to surmount the blending obstacle. We'll try blending out loud!
Your work is amazing! I have to teach joung children German, because their parents want them to become bilingual. They have to learn each sound, each syllabe, each word and each letter a second time in order to not only read german, but also make the jonction between syllabe, pronounciation and meaning. No one teaches them with your method. ( I live in France). I did it a bit , following my intuition, now I am sure to do the right thing. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much. I went straight to white board and sight words and realizing that I’m having my child memory to get him up to speed. I am going back to basic fundamentals now. I’ll start with two letter words and 3 letter words
Thanks bro I’m a 22 year old dad and I get a little frustrated with myself because I had no new ideas 💡but I’m definitely sticking to this technique. And I will let you know in the near future how it worked. Thank you very much @Toddlers Can Learn 😊
A fun way to really get them going as they learn the sounds is to practice saying words through the sound like m a d and having them act out what they hear. It takes them a bit to get it at first, but helps them get good at blending the letter sounds.
My stepson is about to be 16. He’s special needs, has epilepsy and had a severe seizure at age 3 and lack of oxygen for an extended amount of time made him unable to learn. He cannot read, write, recognize numbers, letters, words etc. I am not a teacher, I am a nurse. BUT during COVID he stayed with us for 3 months straight (I happened to be on materno leave) and I taught him how to spell his name, write his name and follow an outline on letters, numbers , and shapes. I KNOW he can learn. I am going to give this a shot and pray it helps him. Thank you
These tips are common sense, which does NOT automatically translate to practice. In fact, our tendency is to do the opposite most of the time. I’ve seen most of these strategies before, and I do try to implement them when working with daughter. These videos are a reminder of how often I resort to old bad habits, and refreshers are needed. Your videos hit all the details that really matter. Refreshers with actual examples are needed in order avoid slipping into old bad habits. Especially true when working with our own children! Thank you for these videos!
Why don't you download and save this on your desktop and then at least weekly you can review to make sure you are doing everything as described in the video
This is great. Thank you. My soon to be 5 year old has known abc since 2 but is still struggling with phonics when they aren't in order. Tried Hooked on phonics and she was not ready for that reason. We will give this a try!! Also wow this method is so simple and inexpensive. Abc flash cards can be purchased a the Dollar tree store as well as a large note pad instead of a dry erase board. Emergent reader books at the library are free! On average how long foes this method take for 4-5 year age range. She knows the sounds but gets confused on some when they aren't in order.
love this bro, I started off slowing down when I pronounced new words to him, really sounding it out like a song almost at times. hoping that will be helping your process work even smoother
Blending the sounds is a but challenging. He knows most of the sounds working on blending and man oh man its tough! Thanks for your vids they help alot!
When I was 8 I didn’t speak any English at all and my teacher taught me to read this way, learned English pretty fast without even knowing it. Couldn’t speak it very well until I started practicing at 11 but I for sure knew how to read and I was very good at spelling because of this way of learning. Now my 5yo niece is the one who needs to learn, so thanks 💪
You are doing great things! I teach in Alberta, Canada and have been doing this type of teaching with phonological awareness skills and phonics for years, but it has been frustrating to see so many TH-camrs/Podcasters/Bloggers not providing the actual building blocks and steps the little ones really need. Thank you for making real learning available to so many!!
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As a teacher with 16 years of experience, I can say you nailed it. Keeping it simple and focusing on the actual sounds the letters make is incredibly effective. Fantastic video, and you have a really great and clear presentation style. I'm going to recommend this channel to teachers and anyone with kids.
Schools used to teach phonics. Unfortunately they no longer do.
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They're starting to do so again
@@monividulen4988 I and the other teachers at our infant school started in October. some students still struggle, while others are in grade 1 already.
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Thank you so much… Being a retired reading interventionist this has been eye opening on how we were trained to teach reading. I have been retraining my brain to help my first grader read the right way!
You're welcome!
The problem with this is that it affects their comprehension. They are so glued to the pronunciation of the words they don’t even know what the meaning of the passage is.
@@GM-pu2lx how so? I’m considering this method, but there could be something to what you’re saying. Please elaborate
@@GM-pu2lxdon’t they need to decode before they can comprehend? I’m a first year teaching teaching 1st grade so I’m trying to learn as much as I can as there was no phonics class in college. And now that I’m teaching it’s, here’s this book follow the curriculum, good luck! I’m noticing that my students who can decode any book you put in front of them no problem struggle with comprehension when you ask what the book is about. They need to work on going into more detail. My kids who cannot read yet can’t even focus on comprehension because they aren’t able to read the words yet and their cognitive load is spent on trying to sound everything out.
I cannot read I live in Jamaica
As a physician, I have taught a lot of medical students and premeds. And Now with young ones at home, I find your videos extremely helpful as my teaching style isn’t always conducive to my 5 year olds. Thank you!
You’re awesome for liking for alternative teaching methods
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My 2 year old is reading now thanks to you!
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@@sihemderbeli7460Victoria Monet’s child could read at 11 there are videos to prove it so it’s not far fetched
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Mine is just now using sentences I NEED TO GET ON UR LEVEL!
Homeschool Teacher here and Tutor I agree with this method 👏🏽 You can tell when a child has learned to memorize the shapes of words and when they have learned blends. Knowing blend sounds helps give your child the ability to read new words with much more ease 👍🏽🤓
Hi! I saw where you mentioned you’re a homeschool teacher-I’m trying to decide whether I should homeschool my 5 year old or put him in public school but I have a dilemma: he struggles with speech (we are putting him in speech therapy), he struggles with identifying the letters of his ABC, he struggles to identify his numbers, and he can’t read yet.
A huge fear for me is not having the capability to homeschool him because of his issues he’s struggling with. I don’t know what else to do and I’m afraid he might fall behind IF I put him in public school.
I also have a 2-year old and am pregnant with my third! I’m so stressed and don’t know what to do!
Any advice from a homeschool teacher?
@@cookie6199 Congratulations On your 3rd 🥳💕 I have 3 kids too ☺️ I understand your position completely. I always tell parents you have it in you to homeschool, because God blessed you with your kids and He knew what they need, he’s blessed you with. You know your child and can create lesson plans to cater to their specific needs and learning style. Have you had him tested for dyslexia? There are many different forms of dyslexia and if he does have it, you will be able to understand how to assist him better. I tutored my godson for a while who has a form of dyslexia. My bestie, his mom, found out he had it after the school he was in kept treating him like he was less than and unable to learn. She knew he was so smart and could not understand what was going on. She took him out of that school, found out it was dyslexia, started homeschooling him and he has been thriving ever since! Your son may not have dyslexia and just needs a different way to help him with letter and number recognition. For example, my eldest can recall things from memory just from a spoken lesson, while my youngest learns best with working with his hands. I want to encourage you, you can teach, and your child can learn. I’ll type a whole page on here, so if you want to talk more feel free to DM on IG and we can set up a call or something 🤓♥️ Hope this helps some ♥️
@cookie6199 Home school should offer IEP services. They have speech therapists. You should be good by putting your kid in home school. My kids are on a waiting list for home school. When you go to orientation they will explain everything about the programs they offer to kids and many fun things to do, too.
My heart lights up when I listen to you. Thank you Sir for what you do.
I’m trying to teach my 7 year old to read and this is honestly the most thoroughly explained video I’ve seen so far. Appreciate it
Glad it was helpful!
Same here my 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration.
My children are grown and this video just happened to pop up as a suggestion for me but seems like it may be something you want to consider. If not this then definitely some Phonics books. I'm 60 and it was easier to learn to read back in the day because we were taught to sound out words through Phonics. The schools now are just teaching the children to memorize words. That's not really an effective way to learn to read. Hang in there it'll be ok. At 7 your baby is still young enough for you to help them make the corrections needed. Be well and get Phonics books.
@carolwilliams8840 Yes, thank you so much. I appreciate your kind words.
@@LouieTheFrenchie same here. my 7 year old is struggling and she might fail 1 grade 😪
1 min in and I love this dude already. I can feel his good heart
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My son is 11 years old. And cannot read. He has autism and ADHD. And as a result, I am trying to teach him myself. Your video is making this feel so much less daunting. Thank you. Your approach is accessible, and understandable.
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This is really helpful, I have a friend with autism that's 14 that doesn't know how to read. His parents don't help with his school work that much and I'm trying to teach him how to read on my own. Thanks
This is so kind of you, I hope you both are making good progress and I wish him well on this journey❤❤
That is a really good thing to do. The world needs more people like you. 😊
English is not my first language i learned it at 15yrs old and even though I can read and write it I didn't know how to teach my little one something i never learned myself like to sound out the words. Thank you! I'm excited to be learning together with my little one ; )
You're so welcome : ) So glad it's helpful!
SAME! I learned English right at 11 y/o , how did I learned ?WHO KNOWS! But thank you sir ! God bless
Thank you so very much for your video. I appreciate your enthusiasm and even your method. Additionally, (and i say this as a mother, grandmother, former bookstore owner and retired early childhood teacher) it is vitally important that all cell phones and other electronics not be given to babies because they will destroy (or sabotage) their appetite for books. I can't stress this enough. To give a little one a phone or computer before they're hooked on books is like giving them dessert before they eat their peas and carrots. Also, the best tried and true way to teach a young one to read is to role model reading for them (naturally) every single day; don't make it a chore. Read to them every day especially at bedtime using books with rhyming words-- like fox in sox by dr seuss. And, take them to the library and sit in the children's section with them while looking at all the books and take some home and return them in a week to get more. (The library's offerings are free to borrow after all.) They'll be the head of the class by the time they start school. Keep up the good work!
This is very true. The screens and electronics have destroyed the natural curiosity and the yearn for reading. My children are spread out in age and I see a huge difference in my older verses the younger. Youngest had tech at a very young age. I wish I could go back and change it.
Taught my daughter to read as a toddler 45 years ago. She graduated from HS 3 years early. Did this a a single mother who hadn’t finished college yet.
Keep up the good work parents. ❤
How did you do it if you don't mind me asking?
My kiddo has struggled so much with blending. Thank you so much for breaking this down. I dropped all our English and went right back to learn to read and blending out loud w nothing is a part of it and I now see how this step is so very important. I feel like this is the piece we have been missing and maybe we are going to get back on track with it this way!
How’d it go???
I love these lessons so much that every time I watch the videos, I feel like leaving a comment just as a respect to him.
You a are teacher of teachers. I have have been trying to teach children how to read, but this short video has opened my insight of doing it. Much love from Zambia 🇿🇲
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for what you do!
I i'm in my kid and I thank you for teaching me how to read
Thank you so much! Teaching my 4-year-old reading now. The blending was something I had no idea to teach!
This is gold. My son is going to Kindergarten and I will be using this. Thank you!
Btw, we are a trilingual home and thankfully my spoken English is impeccable. But folks who English is their second language and have a thick accent- don’t try this at home. lol. I just chuckled thinking of some of my relatives attempting this. 😂
You showed me to teach sounds first and our 25mo has it down pact. Almost started on paper but glad I came here first now that we’re ready to blend! TY TY
I've taught all 5 of my kids to read phonetically with the 1970s curriculum alphaphonics, its so worth it to teach them to read phonetically not by sight first.
I homeschooled mine with phonetics like I was taught in the 1970's - I literally can't hold a conversation with anyone under 50. No one has a vocabulary anymore.
I just responded to someone else's comment that schools used to teach phonics. Unfortunately they're just teaching them to memorize certain words. That's not really teaching them how to read. It's not the teachers, it's the ones who decide what the school's curriculum will be.
@@carolwilliams8840 yeah agreed, my 12 year old can now read at almost a college level and I taught her myself how to read phonetically, now she has the skill to decode words she’s never encountered. We do need some sight word memorizing because they don’t follow the traditional English language but it certainly shouldn’t be taught as the bulk of the curriculum
This is a fascinating subject for me as we have a friend with a 7 year old and they are quite behind in their reading. I have an 8 month old so I want him to be hitting the markers/developmental milestones when he gets to the age. I come from Zimbabwe and English is my second language. I cannot remember anything about phonics save for the fact that from the age of eight I started reading the national newspaper and I would consume everything and check the Dictionary too! I think by the time I was 10 I had stopped actively using a Dictionary as the meaning of most words was clear from the surrounding context. I guess for me the trick will be trying to get my son to the level!lol. I must add I'm a reader and I read a lot of novels; books about the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bible, magazines, books from the school library (all this before the Internet)
@@Magdalena287-Hi Magdalena. Is there a specific book that you used? I can try and get it on Amazon or eBay. I'm based in the UK so maybe it might be a book that wasn't available here in the 70s to start with
Thank you for this lesson! I’m a reading intervention para at an elementary school. It makes me feel good that you are teaching how to teach while using the methods you are teaching. I’m going to binge your videos now
This is exactly how I was taught to teach kiddos how to read. One curriculum is called “sound partners” where it’s exactly what it sounds like. You sit with one child at a time.
We call the long E the magic E. Different curriculum but kinda fun. ❤
Thanks! I'm teaching my little brother to read because he just got out of kindergarten and my goal is to teach him to read before the summer ends. This video helped a lot.
Just found your channel and I absolutely love it! I teach kindergarten and I have adjusted some of the ways I teach my students based on what you have taught. What you say rings true.
Not gonna lie, I had my doubts (very small, but still there) when going through your process, but the logic looked sound enough to stick with it. When I told my friends about it, they definitely thought teaching sounds without letter names was crazy. But just a week ago my 3-year-old tried to read the word "Recycle" by herself, without being asked to (she read it as rek-yuh-kelleh, but the fact that she even got that far was amazing). I'm definitely glad I stuck with it.
Thank you so much! Love how clearly you communicate and break this down.
Thank you. I love your videos. This is how I learned to read in Brazil. Portuguese is my first language and we’d learn to blend all the constant with with vowels. Example: La, Le, Li, Lo, Lu and we’d practice that over and over. My little one is currently learning letter sounds
My son turned 2 yesterday and he knows how to read! How did he learn that?! Me and my husband are so surprised!
Hi! I'm also from Brazil and I would like to ask you a question. Are you teaching your child to read in Portuguese or english? I have a multilingual child and I'm so confused on how to do that and which language I should start! 🤯
You’re an angel sent for this generation. I am heartbroken to know how many kids at school can’t read but just get pushed through until they get held back. God bless you. ❤
Thank you, thank you thank you for this I am now at ease and I have taken some of the stress and anxiety out of what comes next with helping my baby learn to read I truly appreciate these videos
This is how I taught my son to read at 2 ½ & my daughter at 4. This SO works. The first word my daughter sounded out and blended was monkey, at age 4. I sent her to school to "learn" in first grade. The other students were only memorizing star words and pictures. The school "tested" her knowledge by seeing if she had memorized star words. But they never asked her to READ them. Consequently, they said she was behind and I was mailed an official letter of educational neglect and could be charged for negligence. I didn't realize how "dumb" our schools really were until this experience. Today, both my children are very successful and know how to educate themselves on any subject matter. It all started with the sound books I bought 30 years ago. Thank you for going online with this.😊❤
Thank you! Let’s see how this goes with my 2 year old … look forward to watching your videos
Thank you so much ❤️ I'm a first time homeschooling mom. I have been struggling to teach my son and had the right start, but when it comes to blending I have been stumped. I didn't even realize that was the issue until yesterday and then found your video. This is really helpful! To think I was going to go to sight words and flash cards like that next! I'm making the letter sound cards today to help with sound recognition
I've been homeschooling for almost 10 years and have 5 kids, look into the curriculum alphaphonics, I taught all of them to read phonetically with this curriculum. You never want to teach sight words first, when he gets to higher reading he wont be able to decode new words if he's relying on memorization
As a first-time homeschooling mom I cannot thank you enough for sharing.
Thanks for this video !! So happy to know that we are heading in the right direction with my toddlers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Great instructions! I’m a new reading tutor and this has really helped.
Thanks much ❤️
I’m only a few minutes into my first video of yours and I’m hooked. I have an eight-year-old son struggling with reading and writing. He has a way of avoiding writing and reading spaces out.
There's book called 'the A to Z of teaching reading, writing and spelling which is really helpful.
Thank you. Teaching my son blending sounds is the difficult part for me and him. He doesn't know how to blend them and this will help me teach him how. He getting better and I know that progress will continue
Not just for children... I can use this for my adult Literacy class. Thank you!
Your passion is refreshing and inspiring
I remember I learnt how to read by learning the sound of the letters based on their stories. Each letter was a character, for exemple "a" is a clumsy man with a cane and once we told him that his cane was backward, he would go "aaaa !". It made learning so fun through the stories !
Where is the system lol I would love this❤
@@Eye_Am_Divine_33 Unfortunately I am a french native speaker so it was in french, however you can see examples of the letters with their personality, the system is called "Les Alphas" and I suppose there is some kind of equivalent in English somewhere
@@kallychicken7654-I wish my french was at a level where I could use conversation now. Do you teach French by any chance Kally?
@@town944folk Non, malheureusement. (No, unfortunately I don't)
Thank you for your time and for sharing your knowledge. Most of all, thanks for caring this much to instruct us all.
I had to stroke but I can't read very well but your program gives me better everyday I thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you so much
Thank you for helping me teach my son to read, I’m homeschooling and our current curriculum doesn’t go over these steps he knows all his letter sound just didn’t know how we could accurately practice blending
I’ve been considering homeschooling but I have been worried about being able to teach my daughters. This just made me feel confident!
This guy is literally teaching the next generation of the world, really powerful glad to see still good people out there
Seeing a man do this is beautiful. Thank you sir
I searched how to teach a toddler how to read and you came up as I scrolled and I never said “yup” to a video so fast 😂 started watching from TikTok!!
First time father here, have twin boys they are 3 and have two different ways they prefer to learn. Im looking to be their teacher so this incredible help.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
02:03 🧒 The key to teaching any child to read is understanding how learning to read works.
02:29 🔡 Start by teaching children the sounds of letters, not their names.
03:11 📖 Teach children how to blend sounds together, initially doing it out loud without written words.
05:18 📚 Instead of teaching specific words, focus on teaching the skills needed to read any word.
06:14 🔠 Progress by teaching more complex sounds, vowel combinations, and rules.
08:16 💻 Explore available resources based on your child's learning stage, such as free training for beginners or advanced courses for more complex reading skills.
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As a music teacher, this is blowing my mind because so much of this method can carry over into music education. Love your stuff man
Thank you for this video. I really appreciate all the information you gave without a pressure filled sales pitch. This has relieved so much anxiety for me regarding teaching my children to read. It seemed so overwhelming before but I can see a clear path now. Thank you again. 🙏
You're welcome!
First thing I taught was the short sound and long sound of every letter. It really helped. ❤
Teach short vowels sounds first, then two letter sounds with consonant and short vowel sounds (m a) - cycle through each consonant and vowel, once they get them all correct, move on to three letter words ( m a t) , (b a t )
I really like this type of content! I’m a Montessori teacher and I’m always looking to learn more. Thank you!
This is what I intuitively did with my child, who is 4 and can read on her own. Because she knows all the sounds, and we’d practice learning them only a few at a time, for a short amount of time each day, she can sound out words for her self, which also builds confidence and self esteem. We also read at least an hour everyday. This has worked wonders for us.I can definitely say this method is great for teaching kids and expands as they learn more and more because they know the fundamentals
extremly helpful, very grateful for your work
This was great! Thank you! The part of teaching the sounds first without any picture cards was so clarifying for me!! That makes so much sense!
Thanks for the help! My 1st yr trying to homeschool and it has been a learning process for me!
You're welcome! Glad it helps. My free 30 minute training has helped lots of families teaching their children to read too if you want to check it out: www.toddlersread.com/free-workshop
You are a GREAT teacher. THANK You so much for making this seem possible!!
This is how I learned it and my children are also getting it taught in each sound… then connecting Them… We are from Denmark 🎉
Thank you so much for this! My son's starting kindergarten in the fall and I want to work on his reading skills over the summer, this laid it out really well and was super easy to understand! He already knows his letter sounds, now I can work on teaching him how to blend and then go from there. Thank you again!
You're welcome! More info here if you're interested! www.toddlersread.com/free-workshop
I’ve got twin daughters who are 3 years old. I’ve been struggling so much trying to get them to read and talk more. I really hope this will help me 🙏🏼
My 7 yr old is struggling with reading and teacher already told me he might fail 2nd grade. I've tried tutoring, study with him daily and nothing is helping. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed 😪 but I will definitely take this video in consideration. Thank you ❤
I have a free workshop and 3 reading courses too if you’re interested in more support- I wish you all the best!
@toddlerscanread Great! Thanks if you could please provide me the information I would greatly appreciated.
Thank you for posting this video. It was so helpful for my daughter. I thought that she had the letter sounds down at her age, but I realize that she was struggling with reading and didn’t understand why, but after watching this video, I realize that she struggles with the vowel sounds, so we are now working on mastering all 26 letter sounds.
Nks for your genuine help brother.
May our Almighty Creator bless you and your family ❤❤❤❤
Without ever watching your video when I show my daughter a word I sound it for her lol because I noticed when I ask her what letter it is she says the letter like M but hearing it in my head I said this isn’t going to help her.. she’s going to kinder now so thank you!!! I am trying my best to help her stay sharp and on top
Trying this with my 2 year old baby girl while my wife works from home , she's 2 but it's never too early to start 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 thank you
I'm trying to teach my 7 year old to read and this is honestly the most. thoroughly explained video l ve seen. so far Appreciate it
I'm glad you found it helpful!
Yes I agree that this is a simple and clear video. However, profoundly Deaf kids cannot access reading this way. I am a parent of a Deaf child and reading visually is very effective for my child. Phonics only work if you have access to the sounds. Even technologically aided children with implants or hearing aids find it challenging to sound out all words. They instead do a combination of phonics and visual/sight. What I'm saying is that visual or sight reading isn't all bad. It is for some students the only way they can learn to read.
I've got flashcards with first words on them and this is exactly how I'm teaching my son. A week in and its starting to click. I haven't heard of "blend" sounds before, it makes sense so I'll definitely be doing that. This is a great video. Thanks
*my son starts homeschool at the end of the year, if anyone has any good homeschool resources for young children that are really good, I would really appreciate it.
Some of the most helpful tips and advice I’ve seen! Thank yo because I have really been struggling trying to teach my 5 year old to read before starting kindergarten but I found some new confidence while watching your video so thank you!
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. My 4-year-old daughter was being taught compound words with pictures. I did some research on how I could better help her. She was clueless about blending words. We've watched your video together. Before the end of the video, she was blending the 3 letter words.
I almost want to cry.. dude thank you for what you do..
My 7 year old is struggling with reading so i am trying to find how i can better help him. This is what im going to work with him on. Thank you for this awesome advice. Makes sense and seems a lot easier than trying to have him memorize every word.
I’ve been teaching my kids to read, started with letter sounds then 2 letter blends then cvc and now we are doing digraphs. I find that when we are practicing words, they read just fine but there are times that I’ll ask him to read something and maybe if he is caught off guard or if he feels he’s on the spot maybe ( I dont intentionally do this) he will add in a sound that is not there and then I have to tell him that sound isn’t there and then he gets it right. Is there something I need to be watching out for or doing to increase fluency when we try reading sentences? Thank you! Love your videos!
This might help! th-cam.com/users/shortsz4epkQcUSnU?si=BIjQeW8SrfhkT8_y I also have fluency passages in my Reading Rules course that have words and sentences repeating the focus sound in the words (like ch: chip, much, etc).
Thank you. I’m going to take these steps. My son is a behind and he just entered the first grade. He knows his basics sounds but can’t blend well.
I was going through some stuff and not focused. I want to make up and get him reading this school year.
I honestly got teary-eyed when you showed how to practise blending, because it made so much sense and showed me all the things we often erronously take for granted when trying to teach.
This also reminds me of trying to learn hiragana and katakana, my brain likes to take the shortcut of learning the words rather than merging the characters, which means I never really learn how to read new words. Learning Kanji is a different story though…
Thank you my 1.5 year old is ready for the verbal blending ….I wasn’t sure what to do after he’s gotten great practice with letter names and sound.
Thank you for this. I homeschooled my kids with phonics and all went well. Now, I have 3 adopted kids with Down syndrome, and we have memorized the sounds, but can't seem to surmount the blending obstacle. We'll try blending out loud!
Well explained!!
I love the idea of teaching sounds before teaching reading with letter!
Your work is amazing! I have to teach joung children German, because their parents want them to become bilingual. They have to learn each sound, each syllabe, each word and each letter a second time in order to not only read german, but also make the jonction between syllabe, pronounciation and meaning. No one teaches them with your method. ( I live in France). I did it a bit , following my intuition, now I am sure to do the right thing. Thank you so much.
Thank you very much. I went straight to white board and sight words and realizing that I’m having my child memory to get him up to speed. I am going back to basic fundamentals now. I’ll start with two letter words and 3 letter words
Thanks bro I’m a 22 year old dad and I get a little frustrated with myself because I had no new ideas 💡but I’m definitely sticking to this technique. And I will let you know in the near future how it worked. Thank you very much @Toddlers Can Learn 😊
Glad it was helpful. You’ve got this!
A fun way to really get them going as they learn the sounds is to practice saying words through the sound like m a d and having them act out what they hear. It takes them a bit to get it at first, but helps them get good at blending the letter sounds.
My stepson is about to be 16. He’s special needs, has epilepsy and had a severe seizure at age 3 and lack of oxygen for an extended amount of time made him unable to learn. He cannot read, write, recognize numbers, letters, words etc. I am not a teacher, I am a nurse. BUT during COVID he stayed with us for 3 months straight (I happened to be on materno leave) and I taught him how to spell his name, write his name and follow an outline on letters, numbers , and shapes. I KNOW he can learn. I am going to give this a shot and pray it helps him. Thank you
What you are doing can even help older people learn to read. I hope you show or maybe another channel for learning English. I still su k at English.
These tips are common sense, which does NOT automatically translate to practice. In fact, our tendency is to do the opposite most of the time. I’ve seen most of these strategies before, and I do try to implement them when working with daughter. These videos are a reminder of how often I resort to old bad habits, and refreshers are needed. Your videos hit all the details that really matter. Refreshers with actual examples are needed in order avoid slipping into old bad habits. Especially true when working with our own children! Thank you for these videos!
Why don't you download and save this on your desktop and then at least weekly you can review to make sure you are doing everything as described in the video
Thank you for this simple lesson much appreciated! Your awesome!
This is great. Thank you. My soon to be 5 year old has known abc since 2 but is still struggling with phonics when they aren't in order. Tried Hooked on phonics and she was not ready for that reason. We will give this a try!!
Also wow this method is so simple and inexpensive. Abc flash cards can be purchased a the Dollar tree store as well as a large note pad instead of a dry erase board. Emergent reader books at the library are free!
On average how long foes this method take for 4-5 year age range. She knows the sounds but gets confused on some when they aren't in order.
Again we’re kindred spirits this one though I fell short on the out loud blending. Thank you.
Spencer this is gold!! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
love this bro, I started off slowing down when I pronounced new words to him, really sounding it out like a song almost at times. hoping that will be helping your process work even smoother
Blending the sounds is a but challenging. He knows most of the sounds working on blending and man oh man its tough! Thanks for your vids they help alot!
Im at the stage where we are starting to blend out loud, Thank you for your videos 😀
You're welcome!
Currently teaching my 4 year old to read, this information is gold!
Glad it was helpful!
This guy is INCREDIBLE!
Thank you@ You're a GOD send!!
When I was 8 I didn’t speak any English at all and my teacher taught me to read this way, learned English pretty fast without even knowing it. Couldn’t speak it very well until I started practicing at 11 but I for sure knew how to read and I was very good at spelling because of this way of learning. Now my 5yo niece is the one who needs to learn, so thanks 💪
Why on earth do you only have a few thousand views this is such good information thank you!
You are doing great things! I teach in Alberta, Canada and have been doing this type of teaching with phonological awareness skills and phonics for years, but it has been frustrating to see so many TH-camrs/Podcasters/Bloggers not providing the actual building blocks and steps the little ones really need. Thank you for making real learning available to so many!!