3 Things To Do At Home With Your Struggling Reader

 

3 Things To Do At Home With Your Struggling Reader 

A struggling reader is a student who is having trouble learning to read. Struggling readers are not the same as hesitant readers, yet many struggling readers are also reluctant readers. This is due to their difficulty and frustration with reading, which can cause a lack of motivation for them to learn. We discussed several signs that your child could require extra reading assistance in a recent blog. Here are 3 things you can do at home with your struggling reader: 

Reinforce concepts done during class

After identifying that your child is a struggling reader, you may have sought out additional reading assistance for your child. However, in order for your child to improve their reading skills, there must be consistency. When work is done during their reading lessons, it’s crucial to your child’s reading development that those concepts be reinforced at home. Simply reviewing the words or phonetic skills done during reading lessons should be sufficient. 

Read with your child at home

Children's imaginations are stimulated and their awareness of the world is expanded when books are read aloud to them. It aids in the development of language and listening abilities, as well as preparing students to comprehend written material. Reading can help a child expand his or her vocabulary and cognitive skills. Children learn empathy, gain confidence, and extend their imaginations by reading. Reading with your child also helps to develop their love of reading.

Encourage your child to sound out new words 

As you encourage your child to practise their reading skills at home, they may encounter unfamiliar words. Try to avoid prompting them to ‘guess’ the word, giving them situational examples or context clues to guess the word, or showing them an image of the item (or even pointing at it in the house) to have them figure it out. Instead, encourage them to sound out the word. For example, a sentence may read, ‘We sat on the bed.’’. However, your child may not know the last word ‘bed’. Instead of pointing to the bed in the house and asking them, ‘What is that?’ to have them figure out the word, or even asking ‘What can we sit on?’, encourage them to sound out the word. ‘What sound does ‘b’ make?’’ and  ‘What sound does ‘e’ make?’ are some questions you can use to prompt them to sound out the word instead.

At The Caribbean Academy for Reading Intervention and Development, we offer an Individual Reading Assistance Program that assists struggling readers to build skills in: 

• Sight words and high-frequency words 

• Sounds recognition 

• Reading comprehension 

• Letter and word recognition 

• Phonics and phonemic awareness 

Our Reading Assistance Programme is designed to teach the foundational skills of reading to children with significant academic challenges, empowering them to achieve grade-level proficiency. Our dedicated tutors help struggling readers understand the basic mechanics of reading and help them develop critical reading skills that will help them develop a lifelong love of reading. 

Target Audience: Struggling readers between the ages 5 years to 10 years. 

Persons interested in our Individual Reading Assistance Program can contact us at 1-868-474-9819. 

Chrystal Murray 

Reading Interventionist 

1-868-474-9819