Reading trouble

 

Reading trouble makes a child think he is doing a hundred things wrong but only a handful of lessons are causing him problems. 

This is true whether he is in 1st Grade, or 6th Grade, or whatever grade.

His snarls will not improve until someone shows him this handful of tricky lessons. 

Successful reading comes from having a set of sight words plus a set of letters and letter teams committed to memory.

A child's short-term working memory requires almost instant retrieval. Otherwise, the short-term memory cannot work successfully. 

This blog has 160 lessons, and I give you a tip in the next sentence but a system of help is my book at eBay.

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Reading tip: quit stopping to sound out words, tell your child any unknown word, have your child keep reading. Stopping breaks the short-term memory, thus all comprehension is lost.

Show your child how to keep reading using the words he does know. At the end of the page, you ask questions - what is happening on the page, who did what, etc. Then go back to unknown words and help your child figure them out or tell him the word. In a few weeks, this method will give great results.

 

The image above is by Kuniyoshi Kitagawa (1753-1806). Have a great day, Mary Maisner