• Teaching Your Child to Read

  • A Step by Step Guide to Helping Your Preschooler Learn and Develop Simple Reading Skills
  • By: Jayne Beacon
  • Narrated by: Carole Graham Lehan
  • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
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Teaching Your Child to Read

By: Jayne Beacon
Narrated by: Carole Graham Lehan
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Letters and words and sounds, oh my! Don’t panic, Mom...kick-starting your child’s reading journey is way easier than it sounds.

The idea of setting children up to be confident and fluent readers is daunting for most parents, but it doesn’t need to involve formal lessons or an in-depth understanding of the curriculum...in fact, it shouldn’t.

The best way to set your child on the path to becoming an enthusiastic, curious, and confident reader is to integrate literacy skills into your everyday life...and above all, make them fun.

In Teaching Your Child to Read, you’ll find a modern and straightforward approach to teaching your child early reading skills. 

You’ll discover:

  • The number-one thing you can do to raise a confident reader with a natural love of books
  • How to recognize reading readiness in your child—and why so-called "milestones" aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
  • All the background information you need to know to understand how to scaffold your child’s development
  • Stealth strategies for taking what your child does naturally and turning it into a teachable moment (in a fun way!)
  • The real reason nursery rhymes are so important—and how you can build on the foundations you lay with them
  • Environmental print—understand how to use your new best friend!
  • Everything you need to know about teaching your child the letter sounds—and what to do with them
  • Sight words’ demystified—plus strategies to help your child recognize them
  • The most common mistakes parents make when teaching their children to read
  • A wealth of tips, activities, and games for every area of development
  • And much more.

Worrying is a natural part of being a parent. You want your kids to be confident, fluent readers, and you want them to enjoy reading...but do you have the skills to teach such a difficult skill?

Here’s a secret: You do. Set your child up for reading success without delivering a single lesson!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Blueyonder Publications (P)2022 Blueyonder Publications

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A must-have reference guide

This is a great gift for a new parent or grandparent that wants to positively influence a child’s love of reading. It will be a book they refer to at each stage of development to find actionable strategies and techniques that are age appropriate. It has tons of useful information that is laid out in an easy-to-understand manner. I love that the author is focused on creating and growing a child’s passion for reading by providing lots of fun ideas and games to get a kid engaged in reading.

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A Must-Have Audiobook for Parents

I absolutely loved this audiobook! It offers a modern and practical approach to teaching kids to read, making it relatable to real-life parenting. The best part is the emphasis on integrating literacy skills into daily life, ensuring a fun learning journey. Kudos to the author for their expertise and the narrator for an engaging delivery. I highly recommend this audiobook to parents—it's a valuable resource for setting our children on the path to reading success while making it an enjoyable experience.

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Incredible tips to help my child’s reading comprehension!

I found this audiobook extremely useful and I now have some great techniques to implement into my youngest child’s reading journey. I especially enjoyed chapter 5 “Read read read!…”. All about the importance of reading to your child frequently. I experienced this first hand with my first child and even to this day he LOVES to read (and is one of the top academic students in his class). I highly recommend this audiobook!

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Well done

Achieving success with a child at the youngest level requires momentum for seeing what the child can do and teaching just that. The book is packed with fun ideas to engage your child with reading, with game time included with every chapter. The author's direct style of tackling issues and potential solutions broaden the book even further. She explains how the younger your child is, the more you will have to do to maintain the child's attention. Going too fast is an error and going too slowly is also an error. I think that this book is probably the quickest way you can get your child to read books that are sufficiently complex that they ARE interesting. Well done!!!

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What your child needs!

LOVED this book! Very helpful book for parents who believe their children is ready to read! Amazing guide filled with tips and creative suggestions that will enhance their learning experience in a very fun and effective way! The author is very thorough with the content and really provided a lot of knowledge while keeping it simple for everyone to follow, making this very valuable. The narration was done well too with a great pace and a friendly atmosphere. Highly recommended to those wanting their children to develop reading skills!

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Perfect resource for a parent of young children

Teaching Your Child to Read is a fantastic audiobook for any parent who wants to help their child develop reading skills in a fun and engaging way. The author provides a modern and straightforward approach that is easy to follow and implement.

One of the strengths of this audiobook is that it recognizes that every child is unique and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching children how to read. Instead, the author provides a range of strategies and activities that can be adapted to suit individual children's needs and interests.

The author covers a range of topics, including recognizing reading readiness in your child, the importance of nursery rhymes, teaching letter sounds and sight words, and common mistakes parents make when teaching their children to read. The book is full of practical tips, activities, and games that parents can use to support their child's development.

Overall, I highly recommend Teaching Your Child to Read to any parent who wants to help their child develop early reading skills. The audiobook is well-written, easy to understand, and full of practical advice that parents can use to make learning to read fun and engaging for their children.

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Must-Have Resource for All Parents & Teachers!

As a veteran school psychologist, parent & grandparent, I can't recommend this book enough! It is super engaging to listen to and chock full of solid information on how language develops in children and how to enhance their reading readiness and ability. The writer shares her extensive experience with teaching many children, including her own, to love language and become good readers. She shares many activities and games for making learning fun. There is ample info and free, beautiful PDF guides describing milestones for language and reading development from birth up through middle and high school, and many other resources included. Truly a well put together and thorough book that you should not miss! The audiobook narrator sounds great! She's engaging, warm, clear and knowledgeable - perfect for this audiobook!

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Incredible audiobook!!!

I would say this is one of the best books I have ever seen for teaching kids; my two sisters were struggling to find a simple and effective way how to teach my nephews and nieces how to spell and pronounce the words in the right way, and now they are so happy and their kids love it. Highly recommend this book. Also, the Narrator is perfect

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Perfect Timing

I found this book at the perfect time right when school are starting. As a former teacher's aid I know how important this subject is for students and as well as for parents. This author gives out bunch of free guides and pdf. Awesome!

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Highly Useful Resource!

This audiobook should be used by parents and educators alike! It contains excellent strategies and tactics to help children learn to read - I particularly enjoyed the stealth and game tactics. Learning can be fun and if we can turn the process into a game, they will grow in their skills with less pain, shame, or stress!

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