Surely, you already do not remember how the first teacher, mother or grandmother started to teach you. And now you have to try and present your little child with such elementary, in your opinion, thing, like letters, folding into syllables and words ...
The first rule follows from this. You need to start with the realization that what seems now elementary for you, simple and understandable, for a child - new, complex and unexplored. You, too, are learning something, too? And not everything happens the first time. So the child requires patience and understanding. If he can not master reading, the reason is not only unwillingness or laziness. Here, too, is manifested your inability to correctly present knowledge to him, explain it is accessible, and what is important is interesting. After 5-7 years - this is so little and the game is much more interesting than incomprehensible scribbles. So, it is necessary to start with capturing, exciting interest and a desire to read. Use the trait inherent in every child - the desire to know the world!
Rule two. Prepare the child for reading. Develop his articulation, visual perception. It is better if your child comes to the first class, not knowing how to put a letter in words, but prepared for reading. Because, many experts argue that teaching children to school at home, many simply train them to "learn" short words from 3 to 4 letters. But this "pseudo-reading", and after such preparation for children it is difficult to develop skills of normal reading. If you are not sure that you can correctly and correctly teach to read, do preparation for reading, with the help of special exercises and developing games.
The third rule. Read the existing teaching methods for reading. Wherein. It is better to rely on the opinions of specialists, use proven, established ways. After all, what seems understandable and suitable for you, can be completely unacceptable for the perception of the child.
Rule four. Do not cry, do not scold, do not force. Ideally, the child himself must come to the desire to read. He must understand that it is much better to learn to read independently than to ask your mother, For this, use books in the game. Show pictures, pronounce sounds, voice what is painted on the pictures next to the text. Read the child. It is not uncommon that a toddler can retell a book, which has been read for almost a dozen times almost verbatim. After that, it's easier to go directly to reading.
The fifth rule. Turn the learning process into an exciting action. Let it be short, but certainly memorable, not dull and unwanted. If the child is really interested, then he himself will approach the next day with a request to learn to read and do not have to force.
Rule six. The very first "lessons" should not be long and not tiresome. But the main thing is regular. If you have already started, then learn to read every day, and in general at any convenient moment (during the trip, on the way home, and not just during the "lesson").
The seventh rule. Be consistent. First letters, then simple words of several letters, followed by small phrases, then short sentences and only after small texts. But do not stay long at the letters stage. It is not uncommon for a child to know all the letters perfectly, but can not put them into syllables and words.
Rule eighth. Encourage the child. This is especially important when training is just beginning. Mark his progress. Otherwise, the desire to learn will disappear even at the very beginning.
Rule ninth. If you teach a child to read and successfully reached the level of sentences, then the main criterion for whether the child reads correctly is not speed, but understanding. Unthinking folding in words and sentences is useless, children should be aware of the text.