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zness67:

Dear parents, my child is 5 this year and he still can't read a simple complete sentence. He has been attending phonics and speech at Lorna Whiston for about a year now. He improves in speech but still can't read.


Please share your knowledge and experience with me. Also kindly advise if my son's case is common and what to do to improve.

Thank you in advance
Best regards

Hi, first test your child if he recognizes both upper case and lower case letters of the alphabet. Next, work on those letters that he doesn't recognize. Once your child mastered all the letters, move on to phonograms. Test your child the phonetic sound of /a/ to /z/ and see which one he doesn't know and concentrate teaching him on those. Teach your child blending of sounds. You can go to Popular to buy books to teach your child by yourself. The result of you teaching your child by yourself is better than sending to any branded enrichment school. At the same time, introduce your child to whole word approach. MOE teachers use FRY word lists while there are others who use dolch word lists. Google for them and you find whole lot of resources to teach your child to read. Trust yourself that your child can read. You need to start from scratch and you have to be consistent with revision.

Thank you for your advise! I'll try working on that.

Dear parents, my child is 5 this year and he still can’t read a simple complete sentence. He has been attending phonics and speech at Lorna Whiston for about a year now. He improves in speech but still can’t read.


Please share your knowledge and experience with me. Also kindly advise if my son’s case is common and what to do to improve.

Thank you in advance
Best regards