Great tips. I would like to add that for struggling readers, adding in some word building activities with letter tiles can really help. For some kids it's easier to also start with building words... Take three letter tiles R, T, A, draw three line on a page, and ask the child "what is the first sound in /rrraaattt/ for "rat." The child says /r/ and moves the R tile to the first line. This continues until they've spelled the word RAT. This activity teaches phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence at the same time. The Reading Simplified blog has some good articles about this.
I just wanted to share a comment about the how to teach your child to read video. It was amazing. I was sad to see the comments off on it. that video is the most realistic home schooling video I’ve seen. It showed the child learning and what it truly looks like. Had me clapping when she got the word’s right. I was impressed when she was able to read the word LITTLE. It was an amazing video and thank you for sharing it with us 🥰.
I can’t wait to make a Sound wall!! This was such a great video! Very helpful and informative. I liked how you broke down each step, it made me as a parent identify the areas that I need to work on with my child
I am thankful for you and your tips and advice it has helped me so much with my youngest ( 14 and 11 yrs younger than my other two) and he is reading more fluently and sooner than the other two with less difficulty. Again thank you.
I found your channel yesterday and have already learned several tips from just a few videos. I love your sense of humor as well and how you make your explanations clear with your charts. Thank you thank you!!!!
Hello Akeeba I love your work thank you so much for what you have been doing, I have been looking for other videos on this series and I haven't found them will appreciate it if you send the Links or if you haven't done any more videos on them please do my children has improved drastically ever since I started watching your videos. Love from Nigeria
Blending is EXACTLY what I’m having trouble with. My son is 3yrs 5 months, he knows his letter and sounds but blending isn’t going as fast as I’d expected 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️ I’m frustrated 😔
Ah! I should have put they may just be too young. Sometimes with 3 year olds and blending, if you just wait a year, they'll pick it up. But I know most of us don't want to hear that!
@@AkeebaMaze Wait isn’t the word I want to hear indeed but it maybe in his best interest, so I’ll keep trying, whiles making it fun and hope he picks up. Thank you for replying.
i have been following all your video on reading. i have a seven year old who struggles with reading. i think alot of the times he guess because he can look that the pictures.are the any reading books that dont have pictures. i would really like to help him be more a fluent reader. thank you.
Wish u good health and ever flowing prosperity. Love this video very informative. I need help with two things. 1, my daughter she sounds out the 2 letters and three letters words well. But when the get bigger. She loses patience and wants to say the whole word.and not sound it out. Help here Also can you do a math video please
I need your help. My husband and I will have custody of our granddaughter and she's 4. We don't pick her up until Nay 5, but still no time mentally to prep for teaching. Not sure if she REALLY knows her alphabet...., but we want to help her learn. Please share with me the first steps to help her learn. Thank you in advance
Thank you thank you thank you. I was a little discouraged because I tested my children on reading and blending today and they didn’t do too well. I’m sure this will help. I am subscribed to abc mouse already do you think that’s good or is homer better?
How much practise is required? Like how many minutes/hours a day? I have twins, four years old. My son has been blending since he was 2.5 years old and has been reading since 3years old. Though he sometimes guesses longer words. My daughter, not so much. We have been working on blending words now but we may not be practising everyday. Please advise if tou can. Also, if you have children with different reading levels, how do you teach each without them disrupting each other?
With reading, you need to be doing that daily even multiple times daily. You can teach them separately, you only have two children so that shouldn't be difficult. You don't need to teach them together. If your child is guessing that is a problem, can they really read? I started informally teaching my daughter the alphabet at one and then letter sounds at two, at around four I started to teach more actively reading and we had books and I thought she knew how to read but she was smart enough to memorize whole books and did not know how to actually read. I was not practicing sounds enough and did not teach vowels for some reason.
I didn't know Hooked on Phonics had an app, so I cannot say. But I think Hooked on Phonics is a full program, correct? Like, you can get the books and stuff in the mail. Homer is an app for practice and learning.
@@AkeebaMaze yes it is a full program and they have an app and workbook subscription. So far I haven't seen any blending specific activity on it, so I was intrigued by your description of the Homer app.
Great tips. I would like to add that for struggling readers, adding in some word building activities with letter tiles can really help. For some kids it's easier to also start with building words... Take three letter tiles R, T, A, draw three line on a page, and ask the child "what is the first sound in /rrraaattt/ for "rat." The child says /r/ and moves the R tile to the first line. This continues until they've spelled the word RAT. This activity teaches phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence at the same time.
The Reading Simplified blog has some good articles about this.
I just wanted to share a comment about the how to teach your child to read video. It was amazing. I was sad to see the comments off on it. that video is the most realistic home schooling video I’ve seen. It showed the child learning and what it truly looks like. Had me clapping when she got the word’s right. I was impressed when she was able to read the word LITTLE. It was an amazing video and thank you for sharing it with us 🥰.
I share your channel with everyone I know relatives, student teachers, grandparents and parents thank you so very much 💝
2:48 - 2:55 Thank you! I didn't even realize that oral blending was a thing.
Im making a playlist of your teaching videos. Im teaching my 1 year old. Thank you for these videos. U are an angel
Good day my fellow classmates.
We are back in Akeeba's master class .
I can’t wait to make a
Sound wall!! This was such a great video! Very helpful and informative. I liked how you broke down each step, it made me as a parent identify the areas that I need to work on with my child
I am thankful for you and your tips and advice it has helped me so much with my youngest ( 14 and 11 yrs younger than my other two) and he is reading more fluently and sooner than the other two with less difficulty. Again thank you.
I found your channel yesterday and have already learned several tips from just a few videos. I love your sense of humor as well and how you make your explanations clear with your charts. Thank you thank you!!!!
Thank you so much ☺️ this is and will be a great help for me to help my grandchildren.
Enjoying this series. Learning so many different ways of how to teach my grandson who is in kindergarten. Thank you for sharing.
Thankyou Akeeba .... You are a Godsend.... Bless you 🙏
Thank you for these videos. Teaching my son to read has been a struggle.
Just found you, you are an amazing woman, teacher and beautiful momma❤....so thankful to have found your channel. 🎉
So helpful. Thanks for taking the time to show us this. Hit that like yall.
These are really great tips to help with pronunciation. 🦄👸🏽
Just want to say thank you for this information you are providing, it is soo helpful and needed
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thank you so much! I need help with my son. Have the Home app and forgot about it and didn't know about blending words there.
Thank you. Hope you feeling much better😊
Thank you! Downloading. Perfect timing on Spring Break here in Maryland.
I am a student teacher for foundation phase dis is a great channel for me
Hello Akeeba I love your work thank you so much for what you have been doing, I have been looking for other videos on this series and I haven't found them will appreciate it if you send the Links or if you haven't done any more videos on them please do my children has improved drastically ever since I started watching your videos. Love from Nigeria
Yes please!
Brilliant tips, bless you!
Hello,love your hard work,but when will you start a tutor classes .
Very nice explanation akeeba.Thank you.
Thank you akeeba this really helps me to help my son 🥰🙏🙌
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for sharing you knowledge
Thank you for sharing this information It has help me progress in our literacy learning
Hi Akeeba. I'm fairly new to your channel and I'm loving your contents. It is very informative...thanks much!!
Very helpful.. thank you!
Thank you, this video is just what I needed keep up the great work x
P.s. you've really helped to ease some of my concerns
I have a notebook ready every time I see your videos.
Thanks you for teaching ❤
Thank u Akeeba am goin to try this
Thank you for your videos
This so helpful. Thank you
Do you have any tips for assisting my nine year old with reading difficulty?
Hello Akeeba
please send me what you use for your children
but not the white board
Hi Akeeba, do you offer private classes?
Just sign does it have an app that can lead straight to the program
Blending is EXACTLY what I’m having trouble with.
My son is 3yrs 5 months, he knows his letter and sounds but blending isn’t going as fast as I’d expected 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
I’m frustrated 😔
Ah! I should have put they may just be too young. Sometimes with 3 year olds and blending, if you just wait a year, they'll pick it up. But I know most of us don't want to hear that!
@@AkeebaMaze Wait isn’t the word I want to hear indeed but it maybe in his best interest, so I’ll keep trying, whiles making it fun and hope he picks up.
Thank you for replying.
@@gerriprowell9238 that's a very fine line there, you don't want to push reading - especially with a 3 year old!
i have been following all your video on reading. i have a seven year old who struggles with reading. i think alot of the times he guess because he can look that the pictures.are the any reading books that dont have pictures. i would really like to help him be more a fluent reader. thank you.
Wish u good health and ever flowing prosperity.
Love this video very informative. I need help with two things. 1, my daughter she sounds out the 2 letters and three letters words well. But when the get bigger. She loses patience and wants to say the whole word.and not sound it out. Help here
Also can you do a math video please
Is there going to be more lessons?
I’m so old were due I find the affiliate link for Homer
The link in your description wouldn't load. Upon lookin at the address, it has an extra m at the end.
I need your help. My husband and I will have custody of our granddaughter and she's 4. We don't pick her up until Nay 5, but still no time mentally to prep for teaching. Not sure if she REALLY knows her alphabet...., but we want to help her learn. Please share with me the first steps to help her learn. Thank you in advance
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Thank you thank you thank you. I was a little discouraged because I tested my children on reading and blending today and they didn’t do too well. I’m sure this will help. I am subscribed to abc mouse already do you think that’s good or is homer better?
I had that but my daughter wasn't so much interested...but I think I will give this one a try
Does abc mouse have blending practice like this? My kids also used abc mouse, I love it for the testing feature.
Hi Akeeba how are you doing now, I hope you are doing well,
How much practise is required? Like how many minutes/hours a day? I have twins, four years old. My son has been blending since he was 2.5 years old and has been reading since 3years old. Though he sometimes guesses longer words. My daughter, not so much. We have been working on blending words now but we may not be practising everyday. Please advise if tou can. Also, if you have children with different reading levels, how do you teach each without them disrupting each other?
With reading, you need to be doing that daily even multiple times daily. You can teach them separately, you only have two children so that shouldn't be difficult. You don't need to teach them together. If your child is guessing that is a problem, can they really read? I started informally teaching my daughter the alphabet at one and then letter sounds at two, at around four I started to teach more actively reading and we had books and I thought she knew how to read but she was smart enough to memorize whole books and did not know how to actually read. I was not practicing sounds enough and did not teach vowels for some reason.
If your child is guessing longer words, take an unfamiliar book or just write on a board words and ask him to read to see if it he really can.
I wonder if Lil' Phyllis Meets Her Book Fair Fairy is a good read for young readers?
How does Homer compare with Hooked on Phonics? I use Hooked on Phonics for my kid but is Homer better?
I didn't know Hooked on Phonics had an app, so I cannot say. But I think Hooked on Phonics is a full program, correct? Like, you can get the books and stuff in the mail. Homer is an app for practice and learning.
@@AkeebaMaze yes it is a full program and they have an app and workbook subscription. So far I haven't seen any blending specific activity on it, so I was intrigued by your description of the Homer app.
I don't have money
I just wanted to let you know that your link to the Homer app is broken!
Hello Sis' 👋 How long have you been homeschooling?
Hi! About 4 years.
Do you help kids has tutor I'm in California
No, but I'm putting together a list of resources.
@@AkeebaMaze okay and thank you because my son is having a hard time and he also has an IEP
This was helpful, thank you