7:30 - Japan STILL teaches to memorize. My wife (Japanese) asked me to help our nephew with tenses in English. I told her I would. She also went on to say that he needs to memorize the tenses. I told her that I DO NOT teach memorization. He is going to learn to use them; not to memorize them. She said that's (memorization) is how they teach in Japan. I told her that I don't and will never teach to memorize. I teach to produce and use. She said, okay and I went to teach him. Later that day, our nephew looked very happy and confident that he could learn and use the tenses. He told his dad that he was very happy with my lesson and could follow it. He said, "I wish Uncle Manny (My name) was my English teacher. His classes are fun. My English teacher's classes are boring." His dad paid me, but I told him that I was happy to help and you don't have to pay me. We're family. He gave me the money anyway and I gave it to my wife for her beer money.
@@enough425 By teaching the concept instead of memorisation. Children naturally enjoy learning, we kill that joy in school by making them learn in unnatural ways… when it’s harder and makes no sense, it’s not fun. But understanding a new concept is usually fun for kids
Pro tip: Find these sounds in your environment (grocery store shelves, billboards, restaurant signs, etc.) Any time you can connect the abstract (letter sounds) to concrete things in their world, it lays big foundations for literacy. Teachable moments are everywhere just waiting for fun and meaningful discovery!
I really love what you are doing! I was the kid in the classroom counting the paragraphs, too. Now I am a mom of 4 who don't even know where to begin to help them to read. Thank you for finding your purpose and doing the work.
58:18. When to do this (kids see it as just more school) Tip: bath time is excellent for this. Foam letters that stick to the walls, squirt guns to shoot the sounds. Bath/body paints to write on the walls or the child then splash/scrub off the sounds. Then incorporate bath toys with those first-letter sounds. So fun!! Definitely not school.
Pro tip: start with letters that have meaning to your child, like the starting letter to their name, sibings' names m and d for mom and dad, a pet's name, a holiday, etc. The goal is to connect abstract with concrete.
Yes, I do this with my 2 1/2 year old! She knows about half the alphabet this way (if not more). She loves it and asks for more naturally, I have never sat down and formally taught her- she just soaks it up this way!!!☺It probably helps that we have a very large extended family so plenty of cousins 😂
Your wisdom and love ( which makes one intelligent for their student ) would have changed my life and my kid's.We got thru ADHD and Dyslexia with A PRODUCT CALLED SING SPELL READ AND WRITE. The kids loved putting the "rule breaking" words into a jail !! So little frustration - the words were breaking rules , the kids off the hook The set up "Go Fish" game and review and matching the cards with words and like an OWL picture made it stick . Your games I love. I would have had so much fun with my daughter , and so much less failure as perceived . My Tutees were at the library and didnt need this tutor in 6 months - some reading on grade level three. This is a program even a tutor might use. but your method is better and even easier with tiny steps. but the other is next best and could direct a tutor if needed.If I knew about you , I would have gone with you much earlier . Thank you for loving kids - your genius. .
This is exactly what I need, yesterday i tried to pronounce boca sound and asked my son who's about to turn 4yrs o write it on his own, he wrote boka which is the correct sound, i tried to persuade him to change the k to c he refused. I laughed so hard and this made me have a rethink. 🤣🤣🤣🤣.thank you sir
Thank you so much for this lesson, Spencer. I enjoyed and learned a lot. I'm in the UK, and English is my second language. After, started seeing your videos I feel more confident. My little one is 3 and he is enjoying a lot. Thanks again. God bless you. ❤❤❤
Hi bro I'm from India and the way you teaching us is awesome I taught my daughters they're enjoying it and telling me to reach more they are looking forward to see more thanks
What about kids diagnosed with Autism? Especially if they are having issues with language and verbal communication. Child is very smart, talkative and responsive at 5, but it is hard to understand what he is saying.
Still practice with them. Even if you don’t understand. Because they understand. That language component will most likely catch up. My son has autism (and other diagnoses) and didn’t have verbal language until about 2nd grade. He’s 23 now. It takes so much work and patience, but it’s very worth it. ❤
Autistic special education teacher here. Your question is more of a speech pathologist question regarding the child’s ability to produce or express sounds. I only watched the first half, but from what I’ve seen, the video covers primarily the comprehension of sounds which is not the same topic.
@@AJ-qm1exmy son is 4 with Down syndrome -he’s got the letters and sounds down but bleeding is tuff -everyone says to do memorization of words but that seems impossible so I want this phonics to work -it is hard to know how to get him to blend -and the patience part is so true
Thank you so much my oldest learn to read with phonics excellent reader my second would have learn with your system because you include playing and that's all she wanted to do couldn't get her to stay still thank you again and God bless you and your family❤
How about multi-lingual families? I aim to speak Russian to my kid while my husband speaks English (and he is also French...). The main language for our family is English (we live in France) but he is used to speaking to me in Russian more often. Should I teach him Russian alphabet or would it be ok for me to teach him English alphabet first? Could we teach him 2 in parallel? I'm a lot more likely to do this work with him than my husband. Anyway, I'm quite confused about it and imagine that you get the point.
You're amazing! Thank you for sharing. I want to do what you do in my country. We have the exact same problem in the Caribbean. What field should I study? I did my Bachelor's in Psychology and was aiming to become a school guidance counselor. But when I had my first child, I decided to homeschool her and realized that I love teaching, especially literacy.
Appreciate you! I taught my children (4) finally off a book a friend loaned me until I got my own. Just as ur describing! Went from fear of C A T but “how am I gonna turn those into Cat??”🤔☹️🤨 “How to Teach Your Child to Read in a 100 Easy Lessons” Went pretty much just like you showed! :) Thanks but now that I’m looking to work with other children, I’ve been catching your videos & really appreciating! :) -Azariah (The LORD GOD HELPS) PSALM 20:1, 6-8; PROVERBS 16:25; ISAIAH 43; MATTHEW 24; DANIEL 3; JOHN 3:15-21; JOHN 14-21; ISAIAH 30:18-22; ACTS 1-3; REV 2:9; 3:9; GENESIS 6-9; PSALM 9:10
I realized that memorization of words comes much later, when they’re reading fluently and often because we use certain words so often that we subconsciously end up memorizing them and eventually just knowing them and saying them without a second thought, we don’t have to sound out every letter sound. Do you have any videos on kids who are reading already and strengthening their reading comprehension? When I read to my kids I ask them questions about what’s happening in the book as a pre-cursor, but I’d like for them to retain that information more affectively.
Hello love your videos I’m studying you so I can help my twin boys in the first grade we are behind and we know sounds but can’t blend well. Also one twin can not remember anything he just learned
I came across this video at 6 AM this morning. I really do need help to help my 1st graders with reading. my kid is good with letter sounds, challenges is putting the sounds together. I also noticed memorizing three letter words instead of learning, the skill to put sounds together. I need all your help Spencer!😢
Hi, am from India and English is not our mother tongue. We speak our regional language to the kid at home on a daily basis. So when i read english books to my kid... I often translate to the mother tongue thinking she would understand better is that ok? Or do i need to keep reading in English only fr my kid to picks up the language. Am pretty confused on this
The most important part, which is the sound of the alphabet, understands us, it does not sound, there is no good sound. Could you repeat this part, please😢🎉❤
My daughter loved the Gracie's Corner song but now when i ask her to sound and read it out she says when i point "c c c c c " "a a a a a a" "n n n n n"
Nothing to do with UK or US. They are simply doing it wrong. There is a lot of ignorance surrounding this, even where professionals are concerned. It isn’t pronounced ool, lu, luh. Position the tongue where it naturally sits to begin saying an L word eg lettuce. Don’t move it from there, and say the letter quickly. No continuing to voice it as the tongue is moved, hence no uh sound either before it or after it. One doesn’t say ulettuce, or luhettuce or oolettuce
The way I taught my daughters when they were growing up was to use the "Luh" sound for the letter "L" and other consonants, I had no problems. They very quickly got the point, but that doesn't work for many children as Spenser says. I watched one of his video where the child was strugling to blend sounds do to that extra "UH" sound at the end of the consonants. He kept adding it as another syllable. Spenser's way is better for sounding out those letters, to me, although I was successful in the way I taught my girls. He's spent much time and effort in learning and teaching children how learn letters, sounds, blending and reading. He a genius, he's patient, and he's knowledgeable. As I move forward in teaching my grand children, I will follow his lead. It's so rare to find a "Teaching Gem" like Spenser. He should be cherished. When I made my first comment, I made it without watching the whole video and just based on what worked for my girls.😊
@@sashadavis4446 appreciate you coming back to give your full thoughts on this. Lol I'm watching this stuff to low key prep myself for being a dad one day hopefully... 🤷🏽♂️..
7:30 - Japan STILL teaches to memorize. My wife (Japanese) asked me to help our nephew with tenses in English. I told her I would. She also went on to say that he needs to memorize the tenses. I told her that I DO NOT teach memorization. He is going to learn to use them; not to memorize them. She said that's (memorization) is how they teach in Japan. I told her that I don't and will never teach to memorize. I teach to produce and use. She said, okay and I went to teach him. Later that day, our nephew looked very happy and confident that he could learn and use the tenses. He told his dad that he was very happy with my lesson and could follow it. He said, "I wish Uncle Manny (My name) was my English teacher. His classes are fun. My English teacher's classes are boring." His dad paid me, but I told him that I was happy to help and you don't have to pay me. We're family. He gave me the money anyway and I gave it to my wife for her beer money.
What did you do to make it fun
@@enough425 By teaching the concept instead of memorisation. Children naturally enjoy learning, we kill that joy in school by making them learn in unnatural ways… when it’s harder and makes no sense, it’s not fun. But understanding a new concept is usually fun for kids
Pro tip: Find these sounds in your environment (grocery store shelves, billboards, restaurant signs, etc.) Any time you can connect the abstract (letter sounds) to concrete things in their world, it lays big foundations for literacy. Teachable moments are everywhere just waiting for fun and meaningful discovery!
I really love what you are doing! I was the kid in the classroom counting the paragraphs, too. Now I am a mom of 4 who don't even know where to begin to help them to read. Thank you for finding your purpose and doing the work.
You are an amazing human being, kudos to you and your parents for raising such a wonderful man!
Great clear and focused presentation!
This video is gold. Thank you! Great job.
You can do a lot at the 5 to 7 age range. You have much to add to this conversation. Good job.
58:18. When to do this (kids see it as just more school)
Tip: bath time is excellent for this. Foam letters that stick to the walls, squirt guns to shoot the sounds. Bath/body paints to write on the walls or the child then splash/scrub off the sounds. Then incorporate bath toys with those first-letter sounds. So fun!! Definitely not school.
I have a 3 year old that I tutor, he's really smart and this video has helped me understand how to get him to the next level.
Pro tip: start with letters that have meaning to your child, like the starting letter to their name, sibings' names m and d for mom and dad, a pet's name, a holiday, etc. The goal is to connect abstract with concrete.
Yes, I do this with my 2 1/2 year old! She knows about half the alphabet this way (if not more). She loves it and asks for more naturally, I have never sat down and formally taught her- she just soaks it up this way!!!☺It probably helps that we have a very large extended family so plenty of cousins 😂
Thanks for making it clear that no teaching experience is necessary to teach.
I highly appreciate thank you for all the teaching I have learned a lot from your Channel
Your wisdom and love ( which makes one intelligent for their student ) would have changed my life and my kid's.We got thru ADHD and Dyslexia with A PRODUCT CALLED SING SPELL READ AND WRITE. The kids loved putting the "rule breaking" words into a jail !! So little frustration - the words were breaking rules , the kids off the hook The set up "Go Fish" game and review and matching the cards with words and like an OWL picture made it stick . Your games I love. I would have had so much fun with my daughter , and so much less failure as perceived . My Tutees were at the library and didnt need this tutor in 6 months - some reading on grade level three. This is a program even a tutor might use. but your method is better and even easier with tiny steps. but the other is next best and could direct a tutor if needed.If I knew about you , I would have gone with you much earlier . Thank you for loving kids - your genius.
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Thank You so much for explaining this teaching of the the alphabet sound. I enjoyed this so much and it will help with my son with a disability.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I feel positive now. My son is 8, has ADD and reading and writing has been a huge challenge for us.
Thank you so much!! You have really helped me as a homeschool teacher of 1st graders!
❤❤so glad I came accross this 🙏🙏
Nice video content really deserves to be appeeicited
This is exactly what I need, yesterday i tried to pronounce boca sound and asked my son who's about to turn 4yrs o write it on his own, he wrote boka which is the correct sound, i tried to persuade him to change the k to c he refused. I laughed so hard and this made me have a rethink. 🤣🤣🤣🤣.thank you sir
Love this! Anyone else homeschooling?
homeschooling this year for the first time
Homeschooling here! ❤
Yes I homeschool and his program and videos are very beneficial.
Yes, homeschooling! 5th year now. :) Spencer is great.
I’ll be homeschooling for the first time. My daughter is 2 and ready to read. I’m ready to teach her!
The questions in the chat, at the end, are excellent!!
Thank you so much for this lesson, Spencer. I enjoyed and learned a lot. I'm in the UK, and English is my second language. After, started seeing your videos I feel more confident. My little one is 3 and he is enjoying a lot. Thanks again. God bless you. ❤❤❤
Wow! It is helpful 🙏
This is very helpful! Thank you very much Sir!
This is the second time I’ve come across this guy. I’m so happy to have found him again! I love your teaching! How can I connect with u??
Thanks so much for this, appreciated it so much.
Hi Spencer
Great teaching skills
I need help teaching my Autistic Granddaughter to read.
@toddlerscanread you are great👏👏👏
Thank you, Spencer, Read by 4th, I'm a mom in Japan trying to teach my 4yo how to read in English!
Hi bro I'm from India and the way you teaching us is awesome I taught my daughters they're enjoying it and telling me to reach more they are looking forward to see more thanks
Thk you soo muchiiii...this is been so helpful and timely
15:30 is where the flashcards start
What about kids diagnosed with Autism? Especially if they are having issues with language and verbal communication. Child is very smart, talkative and responsive at 5, but it is hard to understand what he is saying.
I recommend looking into the Ron Davis program for autism
Thank you@@nancylin9013!
Still practice with them. Even if you don’t understand. Because they understand. That language component will most likely catch up. My son has autism (and other diagnoses) and didn’t have verbal language until about 2nd grade. He’s 23 now. It takes so much work and patience, but it’s very worth it. ❤
Autistic special education teacher here. Your question is more of a speech pathologist question regarding the child’s ability to produce or express sounds. I only watched the first half, but from what I’ve seen, the video covers primarily the comprehension of sounds which is not the same topic.
@@AJ-qm1exmy son is 4 with Down syndrome -he’s got the letters and sounds down but bleeding is tuff -everyone says to do memorization of words but that seems impossible so I want this phonics to work -it is hard to know how to get him to blend -and the patience part is so true
Thank you. You have helped me sooo much!!
I learned so much from this video thank you for leaving this video up
Thanx again. Great job!!!
Thank you so much my oldest learn to read with phonics excellent reader my second would have learn with your system because you include playing and that's all she wanted to do couldn't get her to stay still thank you again and God bless you and your family❤
How about multi-lingual families? I aim to speak Russian to my kid while my husband speaks English (and he is also French...). The main language for our family is English (we live in France) but he is used to speaking to me in Russian more often. Should I teach him Russian alphabet or would it be ok for me to teach him English alphabet first? Could we teach him 2 in parallel? I'm a lot more likely to do this work with him than my husband. Anyway, I'm quite confused about it and imagine that you get the point.
49:30 making and teaching to small groups (weekly, to practice the 3-4 sounds)
The teacher is very good at teaching, I want to be a child to go to school with the teacher.❤
Thank you so much, and God bless you
You're amazing! Thank you for sharing. I want to do what you do in my country. We have the exact same problem in the Caribbean. What field should I study? I did my Bachelor's in Psychology and was aiming to become a school guidance counselor. But when I had my first child, I decided to homeschool her and realized that I love teaching, especially literacy.
Appreciate you! I taught my children (4) finally off a book a friend loaned me until I got my own. Just as ur describing! Went from fear of C A T but “how am I gonna turn those into Cat??”🤔☹️🤨
“How to Teach Your Child to Read in a 100 Easy Lessons” Went pretty much just like you showed! :) Thanks but now that I’m looking to work with other children, I’ve been catching your videos & really appreciating! :)
-Azariah (The LORD GOD HELPS)
PSALM 20:1, 6-8; PROVERBS 16:25; ISAIAH 43; MATTHEW 24; DANIEL 3; JOHN 3:15-21; JOHN 14-21; ISAIAH 30:18-22; ACTS 1-3; REV 2:9; 3:9; GENESIS 6-9; PSALM 9:10
Hi. What's the name of the book you all used.
@@GeorgiaWhisper “How To Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons”. :) May it be of Good use for you & others!
@@GeorgiaWhisper See full original comment :)
Do you help adult to read I am 54 years old
Hi Spencer, what are great exercises to help a 3rd /4rd child to improve at spelling and comprehension/ creative writing?
I realized that memorization of words comes much later, when they’re reading fluently and often because we use certain words so often that we subconsciously end up memorizing them and eventually just knowing them and saying them without a second thought, we don’t have to sound out every letter sound. Do you have any videos on kids who are reading already and strengthening their reading comprehension? When I read to my kids I ask them questions about what’s happening in the book as a pre-cursor, but I’d like for them to retain that information more affectively.
Loved this 😊
Do the sounds change if you're learning american English or British English?
OMGGGGG I LOVEEEE IT IT WORKKKKK SOOO WELL TODAY
47:07 💯 teachers, listen and enact!
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou 💓 you just answered my fears, l can do this😂❤
Do you teach them the names of the letters at the same time as the sounds. So choose 3 letters and teach both?
Thank you for teaching us 😅 15:05 15:07
Hello Spencer, do you give online classes to kids? Thank you
Thank you for the good work you are doing?, but how does one pronounce "ch" ?
Hello love your videos I’m studying you so I can help my twin boys in the first grade we are behind and we know sounds but can’t blend well. Also one twin can not remember anything he just learned
Thank you so much, I'm watching from Nigeria
Can you train a ground person to read
I came across this video at 6 AM this morning. I really do need help to help my 1st graders with reading. my kid is good with letter sounds, challenges is putting the sounds together. I also noticed memorizing three letter words instead of learning, the skill to put sounds together. I need all your help Spencer!😢
Am 41years old, but, when i come a cross new words, i face difficulty pronuncing.
I want to start teaching my nephew, what advice would you give me?
I wish I had come across this a couple of years ago.
Do you make online classes? Because we are from Romania and this could be the only way to get in contact
Hi, am from India and English is not our mother tongue. We speak our regional language to the kid at home on a daily basis. So when i read english books to my kid... I often translate to the mother tongue thinking she would understand better is that ok? Or do i need to keep reading in English only fr my kid to picks up the language. Am pretty confused on this
Pro tip: include the vowels up front. Do a vowel with a consonant.
Hi.
My daughter is 5 and speaks English but is not reading.
Would you be interested in teaching her?
I didn’t know how much I needed the direction on letter sounds 🥲 love this man!!
Neither did I, this is so good!
Need tips to help my nine year old boy how read and write well.
great video, I have been watching lots of your videos. My son is in 1st grade and he doesn't blend or decode well, how can I help him?
Thank you so much
16:13 game changer 🎉❤
How about sightwords?
The most important part, which is the sound of the alphabet, understands us, it does not sound, there is no good sound. Could you repeat this part, please😢🎉❤
15:00 this section is vital. It is also so completely misunderstood both by parents and by teachers. It is so very frustrating.
Thank you!!! So tired of hearing toddlers only learn letter names as if it means a LOT. The sounds are essential.
Where did you get your flashcards please
i saw that shein has flash cards and phonics cards
And i think he has a link for flashcards as well check his bio
Question my child is in Montessori and they advise me to not to teach her to read to not confuse her however I would love to help her.
Remember you are the parent. If you want to teach your kid, ho for it
jakari really love
51:44 teaching sounds of letters that have more than one sound
Why doesn't chunking apply to the letter sounds?
I m writing for my mom can u help her read she can't read
Thank you
My daughter loved the Gracie's Corner song but now when i ask her to sound and read it out she says when i point "c c c c c " "a a a a a a" "n n n n n"
30:48
Thank you so mush
l love your teach but really need your help
I'm confusing to make R sound
Why do I see many teachers on TH-cam pronouncing the L sound as ul/ool?
Think it has to do with the kind of English. US or UK perhaps?
Exactly!! it's pronounced "Luh", not ul, or ool. That will confuse the child moving forward. The L sound says "LUH."
Nothing to do with UK or US. They are simply doing it wrong. There is a lot of ignorance surrounding this, even where professionals are concerned. It isn’t pronounced ool, lu, luh. Position the tongue where it naturally sits to begin saying an L word eg lettuce. Don’t move it from there, and say the letter quickly. No continuing to voice it as the tongue is moved, hence no uh sound either before it or after it. One doesn’t say ulettuce, or luhettuce or oolettuce
The way I taught my daughters when they were growing up was to use the "Luh" sound for the letter "L" and other consonants, I had no problems. They very quickly got the point, but that doesn't work for many children as Spenser says.
I watched one of his video where the child was strugling to blend sounds do to that extra "UH" sound at the end of the consonants. He kept adding it as another syllable. Spenser's way is better for sounding out those letters, to me, although I was successful in the way I taught my girls.
He's spent much time and effort in learning and teaching children how learn letters, sounds, blending and reading. He a genius, he's patient, and he's knowledgeable.
As I move forward in teaching my grand children, I will follow his lead. It's so rare to find a "Teaching Gem" like Spenser. He should be cherished. When I made my first comment, I made it without watching the whole video and just based on what worked for my girls.😊
@@sashadavis4446 appreciate you coming back to give your full thoughts on this. Lol I'm watching this stuff to low key prep myself for being a dad one day hopefully... 🤷🏽♂️..
This video is amazing. I was pronouncing some wrong smh. Thank you for the correction
Me too I want to learn
🙏
Did you just really burp and did not say excuse me or edit the video???????
I’m trying to focus on the rest of the video but my mind keeps wondering the same thing. Even went to comments to see if anyone else noticed it.
Please can you help me to know English
Phonics first!
Can you please help me
Thank you for not doing this half helpful tutorial and making it a cheap sales pitch
I can't read
Hlo
No way, did he burp and not even edit that out of the video !? Super disgusting and disrespectful!!
peh cahn. pee caan
Homeboy’s got to stop saying ‘ah and umm’ while talking
I'll let "homeboy" know!
Need tips to help my nine year old boy how read and write well.
21:20
Thank you