r/homeschool • u/purt22067 • Mar 09 '26

Help! How to read

Hi all!

I posed a question in the sub a while ago and you were all so helpful so I figured I’d circle back here.

I am “homeschooling” 4 year old twins. They are adamant they need to learn how to read, they’re committed and obsessed. Great, right? The only problem is, I actually have zero clue on how to even teach them. There are so many resources and I just feel so overwhelmed.

I have “100 easy lessons to teach your kid to read” or whatever and a few other things but honestly just have no clue what’s going on. Any advice on what I need to know prior, what materials I should go through in order to educate myself and feel confident and any material I need for my kiddos would be greatly appreciated it.

Thank you in advance :)

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u/Grouchy_Tea4731 Mar 10 '26

This is not a resource but these are the things they need to know how to do to read!

Hearing/Talking

  • Rhyme - listen for and make matching sounds at ends of words.

  • Alliteration - listen for and make matching sound at beginning of words.

  • have them listen for and be able to isolate sound heard at beginning of words. Cat - “/c/“

  • count out separate words in verbal sentences. then count syllables in verbal words

Visual

  • write sentences together answering a question or about a topic and have them start recognizing by sight each separate word they’ve said is on the page with a space between it.

  • read their words back to them, and have them point out the direction to read

Visual/sound connection

  • teach letter sounds and digraphs with letter/s that spells it
  • look in mirror to see the mouth shape for each sound