Many tiny actions in the brain are taking place all at the same time when your child is reading. Getting the meaning of the reading passage is called comprehension.
Brain research is now showing us more about how the mind learns, then stores, then finds information while reading a page of print.
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Brain research is now showing us more about how the mind learns, then stores, then finds information while reading a page of print.
A comprehension 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.
Show your child how to keep reading using the words he does know, sliding over unknown words. 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.
Put into my blog's search box - top left corner - fix reading problem which gives you step by step comprehension help for 2nd Grade - high school. First help your child get comprehension then help with: ce, ci; or ge, gi; or compound word story; or adding ed; or tion; or silent gh, or difference between short vowels long vowels, etc.
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