We’ve talked about many ways you can reinforce your child’s reading skills lately, but one technique I want to highlight is role-reversal. The way to really tell that your child has a mastery of whatever reading lesson you happen to be working on is to have them give the lesson back to you. Tell them that you want them to be the teacher and show you the lesson you were working on just like you had shown them.
The easiest lessons to do that with include working with the movable alphabet, hands on games like the ‘mystery box’, and a lesson called ‘The Ladder” which I’ll be discussing later this week…
Make sure when they are teaching you that they are able to explain the phonics rule(s) and show you examples of how the rule(s) works. When they can demonstrate this, you know they’ve got it down and can move on to the lesson!
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