When to start teaching kid to read
What Age should You Start Teaching Your Child to Read?
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what age should you start teaching your
child to read
learnings accumulative process children
cannot learn to speak without learning
to understand without learning to speak
children cannot learn the alphabet
without knowing the letters of the
alphabet children cannot use them to
form words etc this means that children
start their developmental process
towards reading from the earliest age
the foundation of their literacy skills
starts with their cognitive and speech
development everything else follows from
there all children are different and
develop at their own pace the parents
play a crucial role in this development
by giving the child the opportunity to
advance when she is ready if the child
is not ready to learn the alphabet then
she will not learn the alphabet however
if the child is ready to learn the
alphabet she still will not learn it
unless her parents give her the
opportunity to learn it the role parents
can play in the early years is not to
push the child beyond her abilities but
to give her the opportunity to reach her
abilities
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primary school education in most
countries starts at age six from this
age schools aim to teach children to
read within three years so that children
should have a solid reading base by the
age of nine however it is possible for
children to learn to read much earlier
than this we'll split the skills needed
to learn to read into three
developmental timelines these timelines
greatly overlap but it helps to
compartmentalize them to consider the
age ranges when they can happen the
three steps are speech learning the
alphabet and learning to read step 1
speech
children start identifying the sounds
around them from the earliest age they
may say their first word as early as six
months old or as late as a year and a
half by the time a child is two years
old she may have a vocabulary of 100
words at age three she may have the
vocabulary of 500 words and by the time
she is five years old she may know a
whopping five thousand words or more
speech is the essential base from which
reading and writing skills will develop
step two alphabet
children do not develop the cognitive
ability to recognize the complex shapes
of letters until after the age of two
before that age they may be able to
identify simple letter shapes such as
over X the more complicated letter
shapes will be beyond them sometime
between the ages two to four the child
should develop the ability to learn the
alphabet most children learn to read at
six years old and become competent
readers by around age eight however many
children are actually capable of
learning to read much earlier a few
children are ready to start combining
letters and identifying words as early
as three years old more usually a child
will start developing these abilities
from four to six years old
a very small number of children usually
girls learn to read by osmosis that is
if you read to them enough they start to
recognize and identify the words without
anyone ever formally teaching them this
is an unusual talent so do not be
disappointed if it does not happen with
your child
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