You certainly are an excellent teacher. God bless you young man, we need more African American men to use their gift. Your guys have been blessed by God with tremendous gifts and talents.
I’m so glad I found your teachings! I’ve never felt so confident that by using these techniques I can teach my 5 yr old so much more effectively now! I just watched your videos for over an hour and I’m so excited about what I’ve learned, I’m up at 2 AM printing blank morning meeting templates to start in the morning 😂 Thank you for sharing this with parents and teachers 🙏 ❤
I thank God for leading me to your channel a few minutes ago! Mostly for the straight forward, clear, and precise way you’ve explained this. This is vid number 2 and I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed already approaching the task of teaching my 3, 4, 6 and maybe even my 20-month old to read (?). Thank you! *My 4 and 6 year olds are sitting beside me as I watched just now and were totally engaged and repeating after you 😊
Thank you for your videos. They are very helpful as I homeschool my granddaughter. I taught my granddaughter the short vowels sounds first. After she was very familiar with the short sounds, I introduced the long vowel sounds using words such as acorn, egret, ice, oval, and unicorn. At that time, I also introduced ‘and most of the time y’ as in cry, try, dry.
Thank you so much for simplifying short and long vowels for me. I am currently in graduate school for Speech-Language Pathology and learning about speech-sound disorders. I have been struggling with understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet, so I have been researching videos on English Phonemes. This makes a lot of sense, so thank you for helping ease the stress of grad school.
This is the best way explained and easy to follow for a parent who has no clue what to start, how to start and why to start.. thanks for the wonderful video ❤
Phonics was never my strength as a kid. My oldest had hyperlexia early on so this never became an issue. My youngest struggles like I did. After watching your video I feel equipped to teach them properly, now. Your are a blessing and thank you so much.
British viewers bear in mind that the American accent modifies some sounds in phonics so best use several sources when teaching phonics to littlies. Love the vid ❤
Tell me about it,,,, I waited many years to finally understand the "harry patter" series that my son loves so much,, thanks to captions that is.. so difficult..
Dear Spensor! I'm 36 and learn English as a second language. Your explanation is awesome. I wish I knew about your channel earlier and was able to know these rules. Thanks a lot for your help!!! Like and subscription!!!!!!
My daughter who is 6 showed me a reel of this wonderful guy because we are working on blending! So helpful and even she thought so and that’s why she showed it to me ❤
I'm from india..thanks a lot brother..I'm trying to homeschool my 4 year old and so going with english and arabic for my toddler.people Here think it so *odd* but I know it's not..wish me luck n I will follow your videos in future😊
This is so good. I am teaching at an elementary school, English as a foreign language in South Korea. I agree with all of this. I am struggling because the public school system is failing many of my students. We are not teaching any phonics but expect them to read. I try my best to do the official curriculum and include my own elements, but its impossible to teach them to read with understanding. Some can read, and those kids are the fortunate ones. Some kids looking at the words as shapes and associating that with the word they learned. The system is unfair to those kids who dont have private lessons. I wish there was a way to teach the students this way, starting from the basics but with a class of 25-30 kids who are all on different levels and the school curriculum, its really challenging.
It's a shame phonics isn't being taught anymore! I'm 38 and still remember my phonics lessons in kindergarten. I went in knowing how to read, but phonics skyrocketed my ability to figure out words on my own.
You are an amazing teacher. Your students are very very lucky🧡I'll start to teach reading my 5 years old kido. Your videos are very helpful.💯 thank you💯
Ooooh! I was kinda delaying teaching vowels and have just been teaching some random consonants which I believe is easier to say, simply because I didn’t know how to go about it (teaching vowels). Short or long sound? So this video really helps!
Spencer you should be the Secretary of Education or the head of New York City's school system. God has blessed you with the gift of teaching. I thank God for you. You are helping so many families. I sent for the flash cards , I haven't received them yet. I so excited to get started teaching my great grandson to read. He's in pre-k, and will start kindergarten in Sept 2024. I will send for the reading books also. God bless you and your family.
This was so helpful! I'm going on teaching my 4th little one to read and all my other methoods are not working on him. This helped me see he is most likly confused. You rock!
Thank you for these videos! They are helping me with my 7.5 year old homeschooling and re-medying reading. Gratitude for your effort and editing and teaching.
This has been a really good video for me and I'm glad that i found your channel. I'm a single father and my daughter is starting kindergarten, I have been struggling to find a way to teach her reading skills and to focus on learning and I'm hoping that this makes it easier. As someone who took to things easily as a child I have no idea how to teach myself. Its hard to not get frustrated when she's just not getting it.
Thank you for these videos! They are helping me personally with reading. English my second language. I am struggling with reading because when I learned English , they didn’t teach us phonics. Phonics are crucial in learning English and new learners ignore this part.
I’ve always taught my kids the sounds of the alphabet like I would teach them animals. I introduce them to the name and then show them the sound that it makes. Before reading at a very young age I begin this practice with animals. This is a cow, cow says moo. They get used to the format. So I show them the alphabet in the same way, this is A, A says ae. Once they’re in more of the level 2 stage of reading you show them how and when vowels say their names.
His seems very helpful and I am going to try this with my grandson. He is in my care alot and I feel he needs to start his learning journey and be more challenged to grow. ❤
Thankyou !!! I am stuck . I have a 4 year who is in kindergarten and this video helps me with knowing where to start !! Everyone says beginning sounds, but this video gave me more clarity!!
Very excited to be apart of your learning program. I just started working with 1 of my 2 children and am excited to see how I've incorporated movement into her learning and how its helping her retain the letter sounds.
The way You teach a child is the same way You teach a adult to read? Hi Spencer I'm from Angola🇦🇴 and your experience in teaching is being helpful for me. I'm waiting for your answer🙂 Wish You the best
It has been about a week so far of implementing some of your techniques. My daughter has one of those little writing tablets you can erase. We have been practicing ea words sounding like ē. I also have added ones that sound like e as in Ed. We just added 2 days ago words with ee. She likes it so much that she really had to think about it when we asked her on the weekend if she wanted iPad time before bed or to practice her words.
You are amazing! ❤Do you sell the flash cards you are using with the lowercase a, single story (circular with a vertical line) the way you write it on your board?
It is amazing video please make more and more videos so we can teach our children. On your website i cant see any course. Do you have any online courses
How about bilingual reading? since English is such a difficult language and it has all of these rules, would you recommend teaching English first and then the next language, or both can be taught but in different days, or both at the same time? I don't want to confuse my child. I am excited and I am thinking about purchasing your program for English, but I would like to know your recommendation.
Hey there- great question. You can honestly do it whichever way you prefer and it's probably more of a parenting decision than a reading one. And if you do want to teach them to read in BOTH languages at once, then I believe that kids are sponges and will learn whatever we teach them. However, most of the families who take my courses choose to focus on teaching READING in one language first (while still SPEAKING both.) Then, they can always use the reading skills they gained with the first language to help them read the next language after.
My kiddo is bilingual, Spanish and English, we have moved around so much, but now we're back at a Spanish speaking country and we have decided to start teaching him to read English. He is learning bowels in Spanish at school, but they don't seem to be doing great. We speak English at home mostly so we'll go with that.
Your videos are awesome! Soo helpful to not only get my kid blending but reading. Question! Is there a resource that walks us through teaching the long vowel sounds and the rules? (I.e. When e at the end makes the vowel say it's name)
Thank you! My Reading Books course breaks these down for parents and gives fluency passages for kids to practice the rules in text. More info here! www.toddlersread.com/courses?
You certainly are an excellent teacher. God bless you young man, we need more African American men to use their gift. Your guys have been blessed by God with tremendous gifts and talents.
Don’t make it a race.
You are a wonderful and gifted teacher. God bless the work you do. 😎
I call him an EDUCATOR. Truly brilliant!
I’m so glad I found your teachings! I’ve never felt so confident that by using these techniques I can teach my 5 yr old so much more effectively now! I just watched your videos for over an hour and I’m so excited about what I’ve learned, I’m up at 2 AM printing blank morning meeting templates to start in the morning 😂 Thank you for sharing this with parents and teachers 🙏 ❤
I thank God for leading me to your channel a few minutes ago! Mostly for the straight forward, clear, and precise way you’ve explained this. This is vid number 2 and I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed already approaching the task of teaching my 3, 4, 6 and maybe even my 20-month old to read (?). Thank you! *My 4 and 6 year olds are sitting beside me as I watched just now and were totally engaged and repeating after you 😊
Indeed!!!!!!!
Me too!
Feeling the same about this channel. Great timing! LO is 22 months, just started saying letters and words this past week.
Me too. You are so good and accurate. Love your way of teaching!!! Thank God I looked into your channel. Thank you😊
You teach in an easy way to understand. So good. Play your videos over and over
Learning more and applying these to my son. Thank you Spencer!
Thank you for your videos. They are very helpful as I homeschool my granddaughter.
I taught my granddaughter the short vowels sounds first. After she was very familiar with the short sounds, I introduced the long vowel sounds using words such as acorn, egret, ice, oval, and unicorn. At that time, I also introduced ‘and most of the time y’ as in cry, try, dry.
Thank you so much for simplifying short and long vowels for me. I am currently in graduate school for Speech-Language Pathology and learning about speech-sound disorders. I have been struggling with understanding the International Phonetic Alphabet, so I have been researching videos on English Phonemes. This makes a lot of sense, so thank you for helping ease the stress of grad school.
My daughters sound cards came in today. She’s 20mo. old can’t wait to start with her tomorrow.
That's so exciting! Let me know how it goes! 😁
How is it going after a year? 😊
I am a special education teacher using your strategies to help students who have struggle reading for years! It works!!! thank you
This is the best way explained and easy to follow for a parent who has no clue what to start, how to start and why to start.. thanks for the wonderful video ❤
English language speakers Do Not know how to read because of public school system. comment please. generation after generation.
Phonics was never my strength as a kid. My oldest had hyperlexia early on so this never became an issue. My youngest struggles like I did. After watching your video I feel equipped to teach them properly, now. Your are a blessing and thank you so much.
British viewers bear in mind that the American accent modifies some sounds in phonics so best use several sources when teaching phonics to littlies. Love the vid ❤
Tell me about it,,,, I waited many years to finally understand the "harry patter" series that my son loves so much,, thanks to captions that is.. so difficult..
God forbid the British learn to speak proper English
I have the same problem. Whenever I find any video they are all in American accent, I have no idea how to explain him these differences.
@@aishajalilansari have u find solution
Thanks for raising this point. I am a Brit and hadn't considered this.
Dear Spensor! I'm 36 and learn English as a second language. Your explanation is awesome. I wish I knew about your channel earlier and was able to know these rules. Thanks a lot for your help!!! Like and subscription!!!!!!
My daughter who is 6 showed me a reel of this wonderful guy because we are working on blending! So helpful and even she thought so and that’s why she showed it to me ❤
Thank you for clarifying it for everyone!
Keep doing what you do, man. I wish this was mainstream. Unfortunately, this is not how many kindergarten classes approach phonics.
I am tutoring my student and follow his interests. He is six, but can tell you all about gas stations in English.
I'm from india..thanks a lot brother..I'm trying to homeschool my 4 year old and so going with english and arabic for my toddler.people Here think it so *odd* but I know it's not..wish me luck n I will follow your videos in future😊
This is so good. I am teaching at an elementary school, English as a foreign language in South Korea. I agree with all of this. I am struggling because the public school system is failing many of my students. We are not teaching any phonics but expect them to read. I try my best to do the official curriculum and include my own elements, but its impossible to teach them to read with understanding. Some can read, and those kids are the fortunate ones. Some kids looking at the words as shapes and associating that with the word they learned. The system is unfair to those kids who dont have private lessons. I wish there was a way to teach the students this way, starting from the basics but with a class of 25-30 kids who are all on different levels and the school curriculum, its really challenging.
The way North Americans speak English is NOT the way English people in England pronounce their words. I am glad this is still helping you.
It's a shame phonics isn't being taught anymore! I'm 38 and still remember my phonics lessons in kindergarten. I went in knowing how to read, but phonics skyrocketed my ability to figure out words on my own.
You are an amazing teacher. Your students are very very lucky🧡I'll start to teach reading my 5 years old kido. Your videos are very helpful.💯 thank you💯
Ooooh! I was kinda delaying teaching vowels and have just been teaching some random consonants which I believe is easier to say, simply because I didn’t know how to go about it (teaching vowels). Short or long sound? So this video really helps!
ok great I'm so glad it helps!
Thanks! I wanted to hold off on vowels, but my husband didn't want that. This video helped me to understand how easy it can be.
Spencer you should be the Secretary of Education or the head of New York City's school system. God has blessed you with the gift of teaching. I thank God for you. You are helping so many families. I sent for the flash cards , I haven't received them yet. I so excited to get started teaching my great grandson to read. He's in pre-k, and will start kindergarten in Sept 2024. I will send for the reading books also. God bless you and your family.
It’s so easy to over complicate things and you make it so simple it seems achievable. God Bless.
This was so helpful! I'm going on teaching my 4th little one to read and all my other methoods are not working on him. This helped me see he is most likly confused. You rock!
Blessing for you for sharing.
Wonderful lesson! Thanks for teaching us. So clear! Thanks a lot from Nepal.
Thank you ☺️ God bless you
Thank you for these videos! They are helping me with my 7.5 year old homeschooling and re-medying reading. Gratitude for your effort and editing and teaching.
You are welcome!
This has been a really good video for me and I'm glad that i found your channel. I'm a single father and my daughter is starting kindergarten, I have been struggling to find a way to teach her reading skills and to focus on learning and I'm hoping that this makes it easier. As someone who took to things easily as a child I have no idea how to teach myself. Its hard to not get frustrated when she's just not getting it.
Glad it was helpful! I have a 30 min free training that is helpful too if you’re interested!
@toddlerscanread Yes very helpful, thanks. Where can the training be found? On your channel?
Nice! Thank you
Thank you for these videos! They are helping me personally with reading. English my second language. I am struggling with reading because when I learned English , they didn’t teach us phonics. Phonics are crucial in learning English and new learners ignore this part.
The perfect channel exists! Thank you so much for this precious content! 🙏🏽
Thank you so much. I have never taught abyone anything and I've become a literacy tutor, so I really appreciate thebroad map!!
I’ve always taught my kids the sounds of the alphabet like I would teach them animals. I introduce them to the name and then show them the sound that it makes. Before reading at a very young age I begin this practice with animals. This is a cow, cow says moo. They get used to the format. So I show them the alphabet in the same way, this is A, A says ae. Once they’re in more of the level 2 stage of reading you show them how and when vowels say their names.
I do the same and have 3 boys
His seems very helpful and I am going to try this with my grandson. He is in my care alot and I feel he needs to start his learning journey and be more challenged to grow. ❤
Thankyou !!! I am stuck . I have a 4 year who is in kindergarten and this video helps me with knowing where to start !! Everyone says beginning sounds, but this video gave me more clarity!!
I'm glad! Here's a workshop with more free info- www.toddlersread.com/pages/free-workshop
Very excited to be apart of your learning program. I just started working with 1 of my 2 children and am excited to see how I've incorporated movement into her learning and how its helping her retain the letter sounds.
That's awesome! I can't wait to hear about all the progress they make!
You are the best Richar in my life ❤
Can you also do diagraph vowel sounds and diagraph consonant sounds too. Along with a trigraph and blending them too.
Great lesson, Lesson # 2. Wrote it down, ready to teach.
✍🏾✍🏾 I was not sure where with my son, but he has come a long way I wish I had seen this sooner ❤️
Appreciate it!
You are amazing, my friend! keep up the great work 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I love your explanations! And I would add introducing closed syllables to teaching short vowels.
Thank you for your phenomenal lesson, your are a gift from God. Could you please, post a way to get intouch with you. Keep up the good work
Is there a particular time of day that you think works best for learning and also about how much time per day would you spend on it?
You can accomplish lots in 5 minutes a day, and the best time is whatever is best for your child and your family to be fun and consistent!
@ thank you sir!
Going through your videos from the beginning! Thank you for your work!
Very helpful information, thank a lot for you explanation. 😊
Não falo inglês, mas como alfabetizadora entendo perfeitamente.O mesmo ocorre com o som das vogais em português brasileiro!!!👏👏👏👏👏
At what stage do we introduce letter names? And also how and when to introduce words like said, they etc that can not be read phonetically?
Awesome and insightful information about pronunciation!
Awesome lesson, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Many blessings!
Appreciate all of your videos!
Thank you so much for the work you do. It helps 😊
What are some activities I can do with vowels and my 21 month old? Thanks so much for sharing, grateful for the resource.
Always learning a lot from you , thank you sir .
Super helpful! Have you ever teached Chinese kids or others who is not speak English？It's quiet hard to start the teaching.
Super helpful!! Thank you!!
Very nice explanation! Very good video! From Canada
Thank you so much, this was helpful
Even more important if your student is a Spanish speaker. They have special problems with the short "i". Great! thank you.
This is gold😊
Great video ❤
The way You teach a child is the same way You teach a adult to read?
Hi Spencer I'm from Angola🇦🇴 and your experience in teaching is being helpful for me. I'm waiting for your answer🙂
Wish You the best
Hi there, the steps would be very similar.
I feel a lot better about helping my daughter with school in general but also blending words.
It has been about a week so far of implementing some of your techniques. My daughter has one of those little writing tablets you can erase. We have been practicing ea words sounding like ē. I also have added ones that sound like e as in Ed. We just added 2 days ago words with ee. She likes it so much that she really had to think about it when we asked her on the weekend if she wanted iPad time before bed or to practice her words.
Great information!
Oh my goodness this was very helpful!
Thank you so much. It's very useful.
Thanks for your help you opened my eyes 😊😊😊
Allways I have wanted lern english this way. Like child.
👍👍👍
You are amazing! ❤Do you sell the flash cards you are using with the lowercase a, single story (circular with a vertical line) the way you write it on your board?
I don't, sorry! You can always make your own. I chose the other a because it's what is most often in books.
Thank you for this 😊
Well done 👍
Hey, can you make videos like this for Adults? I think it helps to have someone who looks like you teaching.
You’re awesome man !
It is amazing video please make more and more videos so we can teach our children. On your website i cant see any course. Do you have any online courses
Im non native English speaker, and i dont hear the difference between a, o, u 😢
At. Off. Up
Where did you get those lovely letter cards? I love that they are solid, simple and don’t have pictures.
I had them custom made and offer them on my site! toddlersread.myshopify.com/collections/website-flashcards
How about bilingual reading? since English is such a difficult language and it has all of these rules, would you recommend teaching English first and then the next language, or both can be taught but in different days, or both at the same time? I don't want to confuse my child. I am excited and I am thinking about purchasing your program for English, but I would like to know your recommendation.
Hey there- great question. You can honestly do it whichever way you prefer and it's probably more of a parenting decision than a reading one. And if you do want to teach them to read in BOTH languages at once, then I believe that kids are sponges and will learn whatever we teach them. However, most of the families who take my courses choose to focus on teaching READING in one language first (while still SPEAKING both.) Then, they can always use the reading skills they gained with the first language to help them read the next language after.
My kiddo is bilingual, Spanish and English, we have moved around so much, but now we're back at a Spanish speaking country and we have decided to start teaching him to read English. He is learning bowels in Spanish at school, but they don't seem to be doing great. We speak English at home mostly so we'll go with that.
Thanks So Much!
Your videos are awesome! Soo helpful to not only get my kid blending but reading.
Question! Is there a resource that walks us through teaching the long vowel sounds and the rules? (I.e. When e at the end makes the vowel say it's name)
Thank you! My Reading Books course breaks these down for parents and gives fluency passages for kids to practice the rules in text. More info here! www.toddlersread.com/courses?
Thank you,
for humanity'sake. Thank you.
This is really good advice.
Thanku you 😊👍
Thank you very much!
Thank you!
Love it!
Thanks 🙏
It's really helpful
This is gr8 4 teachers too!
Thank you sir
Really helpful.
Do you have a full playlist of phonics ?? Please let me know
Grandson makes beautiful letters,,, mine are always forwarded to "ono" instead of "Anna"... It does melt my heart ... He'll be just fine. 🧐 I hope,,
Good 👍👍
Thank you so much
So it is true? "When two vowels go a-walking, the first one does the talking, the second one is silent, and the first one says its name"?
Thank you!
You're welcome!
When we are teaching the sounds initially should we go ahead and get into all this?
Nevermind you just answered this lol