Reply to Good on phonics, low on comprehension

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Good on phonics, low on comprehension"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]
My now adult DS was a 'sight reader' at that age.  His friend was an excellent 'phonics reader'.  My son had comprehension and not great fluency in his read-alouds, while his friend had astonishing fluency but low comprehension.

While my kid had been taught phonics at his Montessori from age 3, and he could actually do the phonics bit and read aloud.  He did not have the necessary speed for him that made the story come alive for him.  So, it was boring for him.

Thankfully, there was a reading specialist in his public school  and she told me to do two things -

1) Continue to read aloud really interesting adventure books with more sophisticated vocabulary  and word imagery (Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson etc) every night for 1 or 2 hours, so that his comprehension and language skills continued to become stronger.

2) Read some easier easy texts with larger fonts (eg - Geronimo Stilton ) and put your finger under each word while reading and showing it to him.  Since he was by inclination a sight reader, I had to introduce and familiarize him with more and more words.

It actually worked extremely well.  However, I read to my son every night till he was in 3rd grade. After that, his speed, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary - all improved and he became a voracious reader.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics