My son turned 4 years old in June. I want to work with him on learning to read, but I don't even know where to start.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

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Does he know his sounds? If not, I'd start there. The sounds a letter makes is much more important then the letter name. That's nearly useless knowledge for a 4 yr old for reading. My girls picked up the letter names by themselves after they learned their sounds and started to read.

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if you want to teach sounds, leap frog has some great DVDs out (sound factory, letter factory) and I have heard great things about kids learning from them

Four-year-olds are generally developmentally ready to begin learning the sounds that letters make, "read" their favorite books from memory, and can sight read many familiar words. The best thing to do to encourage reading is to read with him, let him see you reading, and give him many opportunites to see the written word used in meaningful ways - making shopping lists, writing his name and other words important to him, like Mommy, Daddy, truck, etc., making signs to label his block towers or other creations, taking dictation on his drawings on what they are about, pointing out signs that have the letters of his name and making a game of finding them, talking about print in the general world, etc. Children also have to be quite fluent in speaking and listening to become competent readers, so lots of meaningful conversation is important.

The key to learning to read and LOVE reading is making words and reading fun and meaningful in the context of HIS world. And, he has time; the average age for learning to read is @ 6.Here are some links:

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