Fast Start For Early Readers - Kindergarten With early readers it is best to keep things simple and have a step by step plan to teach your preschool child how to read. Preschool children learn to read by discovering the sounds of Alphabet letters, and that those sounds form words; and that words help us learn. Fast Start For Early Readers - Kindergarten introduces preschool children to the Alphabet letter sounds in picture form; children quickly and easily learn to read most three letter words. Teaching your child to read is a step by step process, which is best done by using play and developing your child's senses. Fast Start For Early Readers - Kindergarten shows you how to develop your child's "ear", "tongue", "eye" and "word building" skills, so that your child will quickly be able to read most three letter words. This book will give you an early reading strategy, showing you how to teach children to read, and giving preschool children a head start, before they go to grade school. The method you will learn shows you how to start teaching your child the lowercase (short) sound of English alphabet letters (phonemes - which are speech sounds); this involves "ear", "tongue", "eye" and "word building" training. Step 1. Ear Training - Begins by slowly sounding out words of things you want your child to do: "Bring me a c-u-p." - "Show me something r-e-d." - "c-l-a-p your hands." - "Bring me a p-e-n." Step 2. Tongue Training - Sound out a word slowly "c-a-t," ask your child what sound they hear first and last; your child should say "c" and "t"; make sure your child pronounces the correct letter sounds. Step 3. Eye Training - Begin with Fast Start For Early Readers - Kindergarten, this book teaches the Alphabet letter sounds in picture form and in the order (m, a, n, r, f, s, and so on); then vowels and blended consonants (digraphs); you are teaching the letter sounds (phonemes) and not the words. You do not need any teaching skills to teach your preschool child to read as Fast Start For Early Readers - Kindergarten is in picture form, so anyone can follow along. Give your child a head start, before they go to grade school.