How good it is to be able to read! But how difficult it is to teach and learn it :( Not only technically, but also morally: the child quickly gets tired, gets distracted, fidgets, the parent forces, gets nervous, does not understand how it is possible not to distinguish "M" from "I". And this endless bargaining:
- And here's this paragraph.
- No, I'll just have this little one.
- Until the end of the page.
- No, just up to this point!
- Mom, I'm so tired that I can't even read.
- Kitten, it's only 10 am...
I want to share our life hack. My child loved swinging on a swing from a very early age, he could just hang out for hours until you took him off. It bothered me: firstly, instead of moving and communicating, he sits in one place; secondly, swinging him was really boring. And then I decided that this couldn’t be done anymore, it was a sin to waste time, and we began to fly around the entire solar system on a swing, at two years old my son already knew the names, sizes and colors of all the planets; then we flew on a plane across the continents, studied their flora and fauna; and then I printed out cards with letters. M is for Mazda, I am for Jaguar, and my car fan quickly connected the squiggle on the paper with the make of the car in his mind. And here it is, driving past - we reinforced it!
Maybe you have processes that would not hurt to diversify? For example, your child eats slooooowly, and unobtrusive study of letters during meals could bring a pleasant variety to your breakfasts, lunches and dinners? Or are you used to taking long baths? So there is a place to stick magnetic letters in the bathroom!
And when we learned all the letters, we moved on to comic-book format books: short phrases with picture support - just what you need to start. So little by little we moved on to serious literature, although, of course, I still have to read books aloud before bed for a few more years.
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