Here is how you can help your child learn to read. With these tips, your child’s reading skills will soar and you’ll be developing memories that both of you will cherish.

High-impact tutoring can turn around the trajectory of a student’s life by saving him from the perils of illiteracy. Without learning to read well, students and adult suffer all their lives. They’re unable to fill out job applications, read notices about their health status or insurance coverage, and unable to fill out job applications. See how high-impact tutoring of phonics for reading comprehension can change a person’s life.

The path to lifelong literacy and continuous learning is paved with a strong foundation in phonics. When we teach children how to read we completely change their life trajectories.

This blog contains strategies for reading teachers to implement phonics in their instruction.

As teachers we know that the secret to getting kids to remember language or parts of language is to activate another part of the brain while focusing on the words. For example, having students move, march, or wave hands while reciting words or word parts engages motor memory.

Children begin learning to read when they are read to by their parents. They associate the pictures with the words they hear, and they notice the reader paying attention to the words.

They pick up even more information if the adult reader models, or thinks out loud, the questions and comments that occur to them. For example, saying, “I wonder what will happen next?” leads to making predictions with your child about how the events of the story will unfold.

Within our brains, we have these incredibly important protein molecules called brain-derived neurotrophic factors, or BDNF for short. The neural path is reorganized when the brain assimilates new information, and it’s BDNF that stimulates this process.

Even more incredible much of this process happens when we sleep!

70% of our kids today read superficially, some only identifying the words they’re reading (but not the meaning of the words) and others…well…they’re illiterate. They can’t read at all.

This is a HUGE problem, folks!

You can creative with the “show and tell” by having each child choose a piece of paper out of a “hat” that has a specific question on it about the book. You can have a game of charades in which the kids act out the title or main character of a book. The sky’s the limit!

Of all the children in our schools, 21.6% speak a different language at home. The second most spoken language the United States is Spanish, followed by Chinese, followed by Tagalog which is spoken in the Philippines. In addition, there are approximately 150 different Native American languages spoken in American homes.