What is the most common reason for lack of reading progress?
Many students who do not progress well in reading struggle simply because they lack a solid phonics foundation. To improve reading skills, you should first try to identify at what point your student failed to gain the necessary understanding to move on in reading. For example, how many of these basic steps in reading can your student easily perform? • Recognizes the letters/sounds of the alphabet. • Blends a single consonant and a vowel together at the beginning of a one- or two- vowel word (e.g., sa, mu, fe, ti, ro). • Can add an ending consonant sound to a blend to form a word (e.g., sat, mug, fed, tip, rod). • Proficiently applies these one and two vowel rules: ONE VOWEL RULE: When there is one vowel in a short word, it usually says its short sound. TWO VOWEL RULE: When there are two vowels in a short word, the first one usually says its short sound; the second one is silent. • Easily reads consonant digraphs (ck, sh, ch, ng, th, wh); blends 2 or 3 consonants together with a vowel (
