pick books for your child


  

A pair of toucans having a chat with each other.
What do you suppose they are talking about?  

Choosing an interesting book is much more important than choosing for difficulty-level. Go to a used bookstore. It is good to have a book your child can write in - doodles in the margins, or circling big words, etc. This gets your child more engaged in reading. 

If your child wants to read about snakes, he or she will reach up for hard words. If animals are most interesting, take that path. Or mysteries. Or space travel. Ripley's Believe it or Not, even joke books.

 A 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. This is the way the brain works for everyone.

The brain likes to make sense. If your child practices this method, over time more and more of the unknown words will come. It is the way the brain works.  Many words cannot be sounded out; young readers do not have the letter skills to deal with unknown words. Likely the word is in your child's speaking bank, but not recognized in print. If your child keeps reading onward, the rest of the sentence, and paragraph, can help your child connect with the meaning of the word.

Use my blog's search box - top left corner- search: working memory, or backward b, or short vowel long vowel, or compound word story, or ce, ci, cy, or tion, or tious, etc.

 And, if you are looking for reading skills help I use ebay as my website, people trust it. Search Instant Reading Help all my books will pop up. All are brand new, none have grade levels marked on them, all include my contact info; email or call for help. 

Have fun reading with your child, Mary Maisner