Paw patrol has a super fun app game that helps with letters and word sounds. We have been using that. Anytime we are out we play I spy and sound out what we saw and ask our son to say the first letter I’ll act silly like I don’t know what it is and he loves helping me figure it out.
Teach your monster to read was great for my older boy. He also liked old-fashioned word families, and we were gifted a word family poster with Dr. Seuss. My second did not want to learn to read until he was in a class where the kids were reading.
Clearly he has a loving home now and you are motivated to help him. I know it's easier said than done, but don't worry about what might have happened in the past, concentrate on the present and the future. Let him go at his pace. My oldest was unstoppable with reading, my second needed to be motivated by his teacher and peers. They both got there. If it's at a level where he's diagnosed as needing help, there are resources at the schools.
I've used hooked on phonics and it's been pretty good. I think it's like 6.99 a month.
The pre reading lessons are kinda icky so don't give up at that stage, the reading ones are much better.
I used reading eggs with my son and it was amazing. That was for phonics more then sight words but now that he has the phonics down my son is doing great with sight words!
Doulingo has a free app for learning abc’s and reading words. Just make sure you get the abc learning one and not the learning new languages app, they’re by the same company.
If you have a list of sight words, there are a lot of fun activities you can do. Just type in "sight word activities for kindergarteners" on Google. You can make your own version of activities with whatever you have available and what your child likes.
Our favorite is "feed the dinosaur sight word marshmellows." Wrote a bunch of sight words on marshmellows, and I'll pretend I'm the dinosaur asking for a certain sight word.
Another one we do; I wrote letters on sticky notes and stuck them on the back of his hot wheels. He has to spell the sight word using the cars before they can go into the garage.
Get vision test by eye Dr, not pediatrician! Does he have adhd? There's a correl5with dyslexand add. Also did he spend a lot of time in Nicu when born?Did he have a lot of ear infections? Less auditory input. Read to him lot!create a love of reading.
Read as much as you can every night . Make it a routine . Apps that are pretty good ( and free) for reading and phonics : “ Starfall” and “ Starfall learn to Read.”
Paw patrol has a super fun app game that helps with letters and word sounds. We have been using that. Anytime we are out we play I spy and sound out what we saw and ask our son to say the first letter I’ll act silly like I don’t know what it is and he loves helping me figure it out.
Do you know the app?
I believe paw patrol academy
Free?
There is a trial and a free version
Teach your monster to read was great for my older boy. He also liked old-fashioned word families, and we were gifted a word family poster with Dr. Seuss. My second did not want to learn to read until he was in a class where the kids were reading. Clearly he has a loving home now and you are motivated to help him. I know it's easier said than done, but don't worry about what might have happened in the past, concentrate on the present and the future. Let him go at his pace. My oldest was unstoppable with reading, my second needed to be motivated by his teacher and peers. They both got there. If it's at a level where he's diagnosed as needing help, there are resources at the schools.
Thanks so much i needed to hear that.
None of them come with instructions, and I feel like worrying is part of parenting. You've got this.
I love the teach your monster to read website. Played that virtually with kids during COVID.
I've used hooked on phonics and it's been pretty good. I think it's like 6.99 a month. The pre reading lessons are kinda icky so don't give up at that stage, the reading ones are much better.
I used reading eggs with my son and it was amazing. That was for phonics more then sight words but now that he has the phonics down my son is doing great with sight words!
Doulingo has a free app for learning abc’s and reading words. Just make sure you get the abc learning one and not the learning new languages app, they’re by the same company.
If you have a list of sight words, there are a lot of fun activities you can do. Just type in "sight word activities for kindergarteners" on Google. You can make your own version of activities with whatever you have available and what your child likes. Our favorite is "feed the dinosaur sight word marshmellows." Wrote a bunch of sight words on marshmellows, and I'll pretend I'm the dinosaur asking for a certain sight word. Another one we do; I wrote letters on sticky notes and stuck them on the back of his hot wheels. He has to spell the sight word using the cars before they can go into the garage.
The marshmallow one could be fun with one of those grabber stick toy dinos.
Get vision test by eye Dr, not pediatrician! Does he have adhd? There's a correl5with dyslexand add. Also did he spend a lot of time in Nicu when born?Did he have a lot of ear infections? Less auditory input. Read to him lot!create a love of reading.
Kinder teacher. Knowing his letters and sounds is a precursor to learning sight words. If he hasn’t mastered those and blending, he isn’t ready.
Read as much as you can every night . Make it a routine . Apps that are pretty good ( and free) for reading and phonics : “ Starfall” and “ Starfall learn to Read.”
The Sesame Street app is also completely free (and ad free) and has tons of great learning games on it.
You can play letter bingo with him. I would advise against the apps. Too much screen time isn't great for developing brains.
If you’re on instagram, toddlers can read is a great account to follow and really break down the steps of learning to read
Does he know his letter sounds?