How to make your child the teacher

Here at Phonics Reading Pro we’ve discussed many ways you can reinforce your child’s reading skills, 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 (which we’ve recently taught you how to make), hands on games like the ‘mystery box’, and lessons like ‘The Ladder” which we’ve discussed in the past. 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!

 

Another way to explore your child’s absorption of lessons is to have them read to you! Tell them you want to hear a bedtime story tonight and have them read either a book that you’ve read together before or a book that you know is at their reading level so they can build confidence. There’s another easy way to help build your  child’s phonics reading skills!

Here at Phonics Reading Pro we’ve discussed many ways you can reinforce your child’s reading skills, 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 (which we’ve recently taught you how to make), hands on games like the ‘mystery box’, and lessons like ‘The Ladder” which we’ve discussed in the past. 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!

 

Another way to explore your child’s absorption of lessons is to have them read to you! Tell them you want to hear a bedtime story tonight and have them read either a book that you’ve read together before or a book that you know is at their reading level so they can build confidence. There’s another easy way to help build your  child’s phonics reading skills!