Tip: quit stopping to sound out when your child is reading to you. Tell your child any unknown words - even if you know he knows the word - tell your child the word and ask your child to keep reading. This will slowly build a better connection to better comprehension.
1) Sit down with your child and any storybook. Ask your child to find any word, point to it, and tell you what it is. Try this with several words. (Pay attention to whether your child has trouble seeing. Is your child squinting? Does he need a good eye exam?)
2) Give your child pencil and paper. Say: I want you to write down as many of the letters in each word as you can. (You are only concerned with b /d and g / p / q.) Say:
1) rainbow, 2) stable, 3) handle, 4) bike, 5) saddle, 6) sample, 7) riddle, 8) equal, 9) quiet.
A child must correctly identify every letter in the words he is trying to read. Confusing b /d and g / p / q is the reason many children start falling behind.Use my search box at the top of this page. Search for topics: confuse b and d, and confuse p and q.
3) Get a list of the 1st 300 sight words.(All my books include it; all sight word lists are the same.) Start with the 1st word, learn 3 at a time. Ask your child to search for each sight word and circle the word 20 times in used books he can write it. Being slow with sight words will cause poor fluency.
4) This blog has other supporting skills lessons to search: ce, ci, cy and ge, gi, gy, and gh and compound words. But, when a child has poor fluency, things can quickly get worse. Think about getting my book, or hire a personal tutor - not a group tutor; one-on-one is best.
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