Two years ago, I tried to teach my four-year-old grandson, Carter, to ski. I’ve been skiing in the beautiful Utah Mountains since I was twelve, and I think people would describe me as a proficient skier. How hard could it be?
After a half-day of trying to demonstrate how to do a pizza (snow-plow) with skis, Carter and I went into the lodge for some nice hot chocolate and to sign up for lessons. As the formal lesson began, I hid behind a large fir tree to see what I had been doing wrong. Let’s just say that Carter was skiing within 15 minutes.
It is now apparent to me that just because I can ski, it doesn’t mean that I can teach someone to ski. And so it is with reading. You’re a parent or grandparent and you can read. You’ve been doing it for years so you should be able to teach a child to read right? Well, sort of.
In order to teach reading you’ll need to have some basic tools and strategies. We can give you a head start with free phonics training plus you can sample some reading skills to get you on your way to teaching vocabulary, reading comprehension, and fluency.
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