What are some excellent reading strategies?
Reading is Comprehension Many parents ask teachers for help with their childrens reading. As teachers who work with teenagers literacy in general and especially those who have difficulty with reading, we have made many teacher observations. One of the most obvious observations is that kids who believe they are not good readers tend to focus most of their efforts on word-perfect reproduction. Many times these students believe that reading means pronouncing all of the words right. Making text sound as it was written is an important part of reading, but READING is to CONSTRUCT MEANING, and even adults who read sometimes do not say ALL of the words correctly! The reading process involves a lot more than that. It concentrates more on how readers use sound/symbol relationships (phonics), syntax (grammar), and semantics (meaning) in order to develop a true understanding of text. What IS Important It is very important that your child is aware that reading should make sense and if it does not,
