by Stephen | Sep 14, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
Phonics Teaching Strategies Phonics often mistyped phoic, is a system of letter-sound links that help you sound out words. Therefore, it needs the child to hear the sounds within the words (phonemic awareness) to work. Consequently, the weaker the phonics...
by Stephen | Sep 12, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Reading to Her Fueled Her Success Ziya came to me reading two years below grade level. Her mom used to read “Junie B. Jones” to her and she loved it. But she couldn’t read them herself. She became extremely gifted at manipulating other people to read...
by Stephen | Sep 11, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Step 7 Questions on Comprehension Questions on comprehension usually come down to vocabulary or visualization. Vocabulary was covered. Let’s discuss visualization.The whole purpose of reading is comprehension. Comprehension opens your world to people who lived...
by Stephen | Sep 8, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
Step 6 Vocab Building Vocabulary is the foundation of comprehension. Yet, vocab building is not that straightforward. For example, I can read Spanish because the language is highly phonetic. But I don’t understand what I’m reading because I don’t...
by Stephen | Sep 6, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
Step 5 Reading with Fluency without Memorizing the Dolch Sight Words Many programs show the path to reading is through fluency. (They go on to give Dolch sight word lists for the students to memorize so that students can obtain fluency faster. It doesn’t work.)...
by Stephen | Sep 5, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
Reading Immersion or Reading To Children You would think reading immersion would be the last step, but no we are only halfway there. Many parents are actually reading to children at this point which is great motivation unless it is used as a crutch. Assuming you have...
