When should a child learn to read?
i think it depends on the child my daughter is considered advanced at 3 as she knows the alphabet and reconises letters ther start doing the ch sounding etc in reception which is about 5 and progress to reading for around 6 but each kid is different if your sharing stories start showing her a few letters like my daughter is chloe so i learnt her C first and she picks them out and moved on to the others if you go to www.sparklebox.com maybe co.uk cant remember her nursery uses that stuff and it will be helpful.
I started reading to my kids when they were babies at bedtime. They didnt read the words, but they enjoyed the story and then as they got older 2,3,4 I would point out simple words and they would make up stories fromt he pictures. So I would start as soon as poss. And make it fun. When your child is at school they will read their and get the mare formal learning, and you can still read with them at home. It all goes to help them learn. It is quite a gradual process of development really, there isnt one point whre I could say, that my kids started learning to read.
The pathway to literacy is a long and detailed one, which begins with the developmental precursors of spoken language, such as eye – contact, facial regard and shared attention (primary intersubjectivity). Many deficits, which appear at the level of literacy development have their origins at these levels of development and with later developments such as lack of exposure to a wide variety of vocabulary, lack of phonological awareness, insensitivity to rhyme and alliteration, insensitivity to syllable structure and to the onset and rime of words, lack of development of inner speech, etc. One of the major faults we have as a society is in attempting to teach our children to read too early. The development of inner speech (the inner voice we hear inside our heads when we read) is essential for the monitoring and control of the reading process. On average, this ability develops around 6 – 7 years of age, (in some children younger, in some older) and it is an essential component of successf
Children naturally learn to read somewhere between the ages of two and thirteen. If you push a late reader to read early, he will become very discouraged. On the other hand, nothing can stop an early reader. Unfortunately, parents nowadays feel tremendous pressure to get a “leg up” on their child’s academic skills, which leads them to force feed unnecessary skills to young kids. This in turn robs children of the time to participate in the most important skills of early childhood – play. My suggestion would be to read to your child often, and if he asks to learn to read, then teach him.
