**When you start to teach your child to read you can follow a phonics reading program to get started**

Teaching your child to read and write is not easy and it takes a long time. Therefore you need a good phonics reading program to start

your child off on the right foot.

If you leave the school system to teach your child it will still take a long time, and you will not be sure if your child is progressing as fast as he should.

I recommend using a phonics reading program that can be used to supplement what your child is learning at school. And this way you are taking control of your child’s education and you will know at what level your child’s reading ability is at.

To Homeschooling Parents And Parents of Children who are having Problems Learning to Read

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Video 1: Introduction To Montessori Reading.

Video 2: How To Make Sandpaper Letters.

Video 3: How To Teach Reading Using Sandpaper Letters

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There are a number of good phonics reading programs and I recommend Click N Read Phonics and Frontline Phonics. These programs have both been around for a while so parents must think they are okay.

I also like to use an off-line learning system that has been around for about a 100 years so it has passed the test of time.

This Montessori system compliments other learning systems by bringing in the sense of touch. This system can be used to complement what your child is learning at school. I make up the words or phonics sounds from the child’s schoolbook in sandpaper letters.

Then get the child to trace the sandpaper letters and this helps to implant the new words in the child’s mind, hopefully in the long-term memory. Also it is an introduction to writing because when tracing the letters you are actually writing the words with your fingers.

Learning is about repeating so I revise the words and sounds many times to make sure they stick in the child’s brain.

For more information about the phonics reading programs I recommend see our teach reading page.

To have a chat to other parents and to find out more about learning to read go to our forum.

Thank you for your time

Peter Legrove