Learning to read | Aprendiendo a leer 📚

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Good evening daddies and mommies, I send you greetings wherever you are in the world. Alys has already started with her lessons to learn to read and I must say that it has been really hard for her and for me too, but there is nothing that patience and perseverance can't achieve, so I will tell you about my recent experience.

Last year in December we began to study together ma - me - mi - mo - mu in the book that I was instructed to take to her preschool called Nacho, until that moment everything was fine, her pronunciation was correct and in about three days she already knew these sounds very well, we reviewed them together at home as well as at school with her teacher, until the Christmas vacations came and the book stayed at school and we did not practice the lesson anymore until January arrived, she experienced a total setback in what she had already learned and although it was only 21 days it affected her process.

This led us to a new beginning in January and to start by practicing the alphabet again for several days as she seemed to have forgotten the letters as well and felt a little confused, so that we could then go on to the "M" sounds and continue with the "P" sounds. First I had to be consistent with her at home practicing at least 15 minutes a day every day of the week so that the consistency would pay off without her feeling overwhelmed, bored or tired.

The sounds with the "M" were a challenge but within a week she was able to say them again and the sentences, then it was getting shorter with the rest with the "P" it was three days and fortunately she went from "S" to "L" in one day unexpectedly for me, but I proved that perseverance has its fruits in her and although the day we practiced the sounds with "P" she told me that she didn't want to learn to read because it was boring to study, I explained to her that reading is necessary for her education so she wouldn't be asking mom what it says, she understood perfectly and we continued with the process.

She likes to go to school, she memorizes her expositions and so on, I didn't think she would tell me this but I think that all of us once experience that desire of not wanting to study and we end up understanding that it is important for our life the next day, and although sometimes we want to throw in the towel we must fill ourselves with patience and lots of love so that they learn from their best teachers that we are so that they can complement the education they receive at school.

I thought about telling her at times that I would give her a reward to motivate her but I felt that was equal to buying her to learn instead I decided to give her my best advice and when we complete the book give her an unexpected gift so that she feels happy for her accomplishment of learning to read.

For the moment we are with the sounds of the "L" that this Monday we will know if she will be able to move on to the next one by identifying in the book each one correctly, leave me your best wishes and what strategies worked for you to help your children learn to read.

Photographs taken with a Samsung Galaxy A22.
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Translation by Deepl