How can 5-year-olds learn to read and write in a fun way?

In many countries, educational systems include the beginning of the teaching of reading and writing at 5 years of age within their learning programs. It must be a joint effort between teachers and parents, who must reach a consensus on how to do it so that there is consistency in the method used and why not? Use creativity together with educators to make it more fun for the child, achieving compliance with the objectives more expeditiously.

In this stage children must have reached a cognitive development that allows them to start reading and writing, since it involves both fine and gross motor skills. The child should be able to remember:

• Phone numbers.
• Addresses.
• The alphabet.
• Know some colors.
• Function of everyday objects.

Educators must be aware that within their individual development, the child can meet these milestones of development, to understand that you are ready to undertake this experience, as is learning to read and write.

Now, the child at this age is still learning by the example shown by adults, by association, by repetition and television programming that usually see importance because they will be his heroes to imitate.

This can be used to capture the attention of children, it occurs to me that using the global method, through little cards, where we place the figure of our son's favorite animated character and next to a related word, we can achieve that the child learns it with more interest and attention. In this way, the child will be learning the complete word and not letter by letter, then sound by sound, as the traditional method suggests. We must evaluate the child's reaction, see if it is working, because each individual is a unique being and what can work for me, maybe another person does not work for him.

In addition, we have other tools that can make the learning moment more fun, the use of music. Starting from the beginning, I quote textual: "that this can enhance the performance of short and intermittent strokes when their rhythm is very fast and marked, while if on the contrary the music is slower and softer to facilitate the child to make long strokes and undulating ", end of the appointment for more information here the link in Spanish. Together with the help of the child we choose a melody according to what we want to enhance in that lesson of reading-writing of the day. The idea is that he feels that he was part of the whole process from the beginning when he chose music together with the educator or the mother.

We must likewise, set the place where the child usually interacts, either in the school classroom or in a corner of the house or in his room, helping us by placing in visible places posters, notices, drawings that graphically and colorfully, show the letters of the alphabet, or how you write the figure or image that shows.

Making use of technology, motivating the child, inviting him to write a text message to grandparents, uncles, cousins, since although he will not be writing it manually if it involves dictating the letters which he will identify in order to write the word desired.

It is very important to carry out activities that suggest the use of fine motor skills, because in order to get the child to learn to read, he must have reached a certain maturity, in daily activities the child will be invited to use chalk, wax, paint, that allow him to put into practice the relationship of mind, hands, fingers. Educators must be creative to promote activities that relate all these techniques shown to the child in a fun way. It is suggested that the personality, temperament, tastes, hobbies and preferences of the child be observed in such a way that they are used and incorporated into the learning of reading and writing.