1. Look two moves deep
2. Predict your next move
Consider allowing her to make move A / predict your move / decide her B move / and then decide if she wants to keep her A move.
You could try playing along with her predictions to get her in the mode of thinking multiple moves ahead.
Also try games where you handicap yourself by taking pieces off the board.
Those are a couple ideas.
Good luck! I'd be interested to know how you got as far as you did teaching her!
So, I have a 5 year old (soon to be 6) that likes playing chess. I don't really push it, but she asks to play. She's knows how all the pieces move and understands some very simple basics like controlling the center, not randomly moving pawns, not bringing the queen out too early, not putting knights on the edge without good reasons, etc. She usually wants to play white and the following is a pretty typical opening for her (she has very basic opening theory so I always play e5 to her e4).
So, after she gets her king castled she loses all her confidence and doesn't know what to do from there.
I've tried setting us some very basic mating patterns, but she quickly gets bored with tactical training, she wants to play.
She is also very hesitant to trade pieces. She knows the basic value of a piece but I don't think she knows how to decide if it's a good trade or a bad trade. She has very very limited understanding of positional chess and often misses things like pins etc. (very understandable based on her age).
Yesterday when she was playing and we got to a position very similar to the above diagram I heard her talking to herself under her breath saying, "look for something to take."
Anyway, I don't want to "train" too hard with her as I want this to be fun for her, but she has really suprised me with what she's understood at 5 years of age. I also know that the more she "trains" the more fun it will be to play.
Any advice on how to help her learn from here? I'm rated about 1300 USCF so my skill set is limited and there's no way I could justify paying for coaching (besides the whole point for her is to have something fun to do with her dad - if I brought in a coach I think she'd lose interest instantly).
She has a chesskid.com account, but again that's not a lot of fun for her because that a solitary activity and she always wants to play OTB with dad (or siblings).