Summer reading skills loss



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Find a 10 minute timer; use it twice a day. Morning is for skills work, afternoon is for reading a story. You will be more successful if you do not push for more time after the buzzer rings.

Take your child to the library or to a used bookstore. Let your child pick whatever: animal books, adventures, science experiments, Ripley's Believe it or not, joke books, etc. 

I like used books because your child can write in them.

You can assign Word Hunts for tricky look alike sight words: these, those, whether, which, though, thought, caught, brought, etc. You can get large print books at libraries and used bookstores.

Tip: Quit stopping to sound out; tell your child any unknown words. Tell your child to read the words he knows, slide over unknown words. Over time, this will reap better results.

All kids want to be great at reading but schools do not have enough time. 

Reading skills become lost when they are not used every few days: short and long vowels; adding ed and ing, changing y to i, vowel blocks ous, eous, ious, tial, tion, tious, tient, etc. Knowing chose and choose, lose and loose, bit, bite, rid, ride, and more.

I use eBay as my website, people trust it. Search Instant Reading Help all my books will pop up for you to consider.  Help your child have fun reading. Mary Maisner