Helping My 6 Year Old Learn How to Read Better

In addition to library visits and reading with her, when ever the television is on put on the closed captions for the hard of hearing. Then all the words being said will appear as words at the bottom of the screen. The association with the spoken word and the written word is good reinforcement for reading skills.

read to her.. go the library every week.. check out books.. lots of books.. have the librarian help you find good boooks for you to read to her and easy books for her to read to you. does she understand phonics??? get some workbooks on phonics.. do the worksheets with her.. go back through all the letters talk about the sounds they make.. the easy letters...(b only say buh... then get to the tricky letters.. Y can say yah, EEE or III.. depending ... dont forget sh, th, ph.. you MUST understand phonics beofre you can read well. It seems like our school system is using the "whole language approach to reading.. this works for some kids.. did not work for my daughter.. we did lot so phoinics.. she is doing better..

Math... number line.. start with the number line.. show her how to visualize 2+2 on the numberline. count by 5s and 10s.. get a number chart up to 100. kids need to see the numbers to do the math.. have her do addition with real objects.. small blocks... pencils...

starfall is great for reading.. abcya has some math games..

My husband has a genius level IQ and struggled to read, he could not read in first grade at all. The spent the Summer with his grandmother and she would read to him from the scriptures every day. He says one day it was like his brain turned on. He understood it, the letters made words, the words made a sentence, then that made sense.

I would say just keep encouraging her to read and continue to read aloud to her every day. I bet by Fall she will be reading very well. Sometimes it just takes some time.

I would also say if it appears she is struggling then perhaps a vision evaluation might be in order. My friend's son had to use a special pair of glasses, like the ones Nicholas Cage wore in National Treasure, each night and do reading assignments. The eye doc evaluated him every few months and the increase in processing was amazing.

There could be some physical issues too that may not show up until a later age but they can also show up in an eye evaluation. It wouldn't hurt to see anyway.

Read with her.
Make it fun!
Read all the Dr Seuss books and play games.
Have her pick a single word and have her read it when ever it comes up in the story.
Or you read odd pages to her and she reads even pages to you.
It's not a chore if it's playing.
For a lot of kids, reading really takes off the 2nd half of 2nd grade.
Just keep up with the practicing.

I presumme she is in public school, right? And so if she is the system pushes this on children before they are actually ready. This is a proven fact. But anyway, you need to make it interesting and fun and light. Make up stories about the letters like the gabby goose for g or the mighty mountains for m and make the sounds of the letters more prevalent. And tell her about a village that have all kinds of families that live there, these families are word families like at, how many words can we make from at, cat, bat, rat, sat, mat and then you both can make up stories with these words and so on. Do a few at a time. And read to her, lots of reading to her and more important telling her stories. Read one and memorize it and tell it to her, it only needs to be short nothing elabrate, and make it a special time when you tell her the story, light a candle and say a little verse to her like, "fairies of the fairytales take me by your silver hand, fairies of the fairytales take me to your shining land." Pause and begin the story. You see it is the richness and quality and joy of language that produces the love of language and reading. Play with words with her. There are all sorts of games you can play that you can get over the net. And memorize verses and such, when you start saying them regularly, then she'll start saying them with you. This may not sound like it is teaching her to read but it is and this will keep her reading. Do the same thing with Math. Children live in a different world than adults and their minds work differently - they live in their imagination and so you must keep that lively and sweet. You can make up a story about squirrels getting their nuts and how another squirrel took some etc. - adding and subtracting. Always start with the whole and then work into the parts. Get some glass flat botttom stones or some other objects to count and say something like the little gnomes were in the mountains digging out the crystals and one little gnome named add dug up 20 then he found 6 more and had how many? He wanted to put them in groups, etc. etc.
There are all kinds of info on the net. The thing is keep it lively and joyful and engage her imagination. It'll do wonders.
You may want to look up waldorf education. There are all kinds of wonderful blogs on homeschooling like, the parenting passageway and the sun with loving light to name just two. Even if you're not a homeschooler you may gain some insight. You can also look into math and reading skills just google it.
Have fun with your sweet girl.

Read to her, and have her read to you. This has helped a lot. Encouraging her to read books always helps. I'm not sure at age 6 if she is in K or grade 1, but if she is in grade 1, have her read at least 15 minutes a day to herself out loud. As for math, I think it is the way they teach it. My daughter struggles with it also. We try math websites and memorization of math facts.

For math: www.khanadademy.org

For reading: www.starfall.com

Also, speak to her Teacher, and ask for tips or supplementary worksheets etc.
And just read to her.

You don't mention her level or what has worked or not worked.

Start with pre-decodable books http://www.amazon.com/Pre-Decodable-Takehome-Books-Level-.... They are easy reads. One liners with a picture to go along with a bigger word. "The sandbox" with a thumbnail of the sandbox.

Then Scholastic has a good set that provides about 4 lines per page. Again these are decodable books.

The next set I like are "First Readers". There are 6 books. "The Ugly Duckling", "Chicken Licken", "Cinderella", "The Gingerbread Man", "Hansel and Gretel", "The Three Billy Goats Gruff".

Then at that point I think they are ready for the level 1, level 2, and level 3 books.

Remember, it is important to master levels before moving on or she will struggle.

I also hear BOB books are good starter books.

As far as the reading goes....Read, read, & read to her often! Keep books around the house in different rooms, let her pick them up & read them by herself and with you. Provide her with books of different genres to read, but especially provide her with books of high interest to her. Take her to the library as often as you can, go to the local bookstore with her, and let her see you reading, too. Make reading a regular part of your daily lives (if it isn't already). Happy reading!

Practice.

Make it a game. Read to each other. She needs to read aloud. Count how many words per minute, set a realistic goal and work toward it. During reading, stop and ask comprehension questions to make she she understand what she is reading.

As for math, again, make it a game. At the grocery have her get 6 lemons, and how how many more make 10, etc... let her cook with you and see how you measure, etc. Practice.

Some schools have a summer program that helps children who are behind to keep up over the summer. If you can do this, do it. If not, make sure you set time daily to work with her. Even the simple things you do together with reading and math can make a world of difference. Keep it up over the summer so she does not fall behind.

Also, many schools offer FREE tutoring for about 45 minutes after school. If your teacher offers it do it.

Good luck

She may be a right brain learner. They get reading and math at a later age (8-10) than the left brain person and tend to do better with science, geography and history at this age. Do some research on right brainers, keep reading to her and let her explore what interests her now. She will get it eventually.

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Can your daughter identify letters and make their sounds? If not, the Leap Frog DVD videos work real well. We also bought my daughter a Leap Frog Explorer. She has no idea she's learning sounds or doing math. She really thinks she's playing a game.
I'm adding the above since it can help her when you can't read to her. Her Dad and others should read to her too and read in front of her. Those displays will help her see how reading can be fun. Oh, read the kind of books she likes whether it be about animals, princesses or maybe poems. Good luck.

Ask her teacher for advice as she will know exactly what strengths and weaknesses your daughter has, for instance some kids understand phonics but need to practice reading comprehension. Some kids are great at memorizing sight words. My son liked the website learntoreadfree. I like the website RAZ kids. They work well together as one is phonics and one is sight words and comprehension. For math it depends if she is in Kindergarten or first grade?