Reading is an essential skill that many of us take for granted since we learned how so long ago in our childhood. We don't often think about how vital literacy is to our every day life for reading news articles, making shopping lists, following driving directions and reading street signs, filling out employment applications, or just enjoying quiet time with a novel. Having an inability to read or difficulty with reading prevents one from being a fully-functional part of the society in which we live.
The first step in teaching a child to read is instilling the desire. Children are by nature curious and desire to learn. Filling a child's young world with stories and picture books with mom, dad, grandma or grandpa, or even older siblings reading to them and interacting on an individual level, will go far in instilling a love of reading to a child. This desire will open a world of exploration that will benefit for a lifetime.
Children who get behind in developing their reading skills suffer greatly. They feel frustration, lacking in self-esteem and self-confidence as they fall further and further behind in every school subject. They will internalize the message of “I'm just stupid” that can stay with them for life, with potentially disastrous effects for a full, happy future. Adults with the inability to read are often shut out of any but the most menial of labor jobs, regardless of their intelligence or capabilities.
Fortunately, there is help for children and adults who struggle with reading. There are home tutoring products that provide proven step-by-step instructions to guide a reading tutor through to effectively teach a child or illiterate adult phonics, sight word recognition, and reading comprehension. Whether you are a parent or grandparent of a child, the child of a non-reading parent, or one who wants to offer literacy classes in your community, these reading curriculum guides will enable you to lead students to competency in the vast world of the written word.
A quality home tutoring program will include teaching methods and specific, clear procedures that have been demonstrated to be effective in teaching beginning readers or remedial skills. It will offer teaching tools, games, and reinforcement materials to keep the learning fun and engaging. It is flexible for individualized instruction and employs the “human element” so important to learning.
A reading tutor program is an excellent way to “jump-start” a child's education early or to enhance a child's reading skills during summer months. It will help to assess reading problems if they occur and to quickly turn those around before they become greater issues. An excellent program can even be the beginning of a valuable home based business that improves community literacy. With it, you can make a tremendous difference in the lives of children and adults.