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7 Pleasurable Ways to Improve Your Reading Ability

May 19th, 2008 by Steve KaufmannPrint This Post Print This
“There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.” – Rubem Alves, Brazilian educator.

What is most likely to influence your success at school or at a job? The ability to read well. And that goes for your kids too. The declining literacy of our society has been a major concern of educators for a while now, and yet things are not getting better. One reason might be a failure to recognize that reading and literacy are personal skills, best acquired when associated with pleasure.

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Here is seven helpful ways to improve your reading ability. This was written with adults in mind but it still applies to children.

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Preschool Lessons

Preschool lessons are so important. Math, reading and writing. It is up to us as parents to make sure our children get the best start they can. How can you help your child with these areas? Here are a few ideas.

Speaking and Listening

Encourage your child:

by showing them how to greet people,

to use a telephone,

to sing rhymes, songs and chants,

to practice following instructions,

by modeling how to be an active listener through nodding and making eye contact,

to play dress ups and role play characters from favorite stories,

by encouraging talk and description when using a range of toys and materials for play and craft .

Reading

Make a regular time for reading together.

Talk about books.

Give your child a range of books to read.

Join the local library.

Read old favorites again and again and soon your child will be reading them to you.

Writing

Provide a range of materials to encourage writing and drawing.

Write together.

Write signs and labels for things around the house with your child.

Math is so much more than just counting. Here are a few preschool ideas for math.

Search for number in your house, on a trip in the car, at the store.

Count objects whenever you can, socks in the washing basket, toy cars, dolls, biscuits.

Finding shapes.

Simple jigsaws.

Learning the time

Learning the language of position

Reading Gap between Boys and Girls

Reading Gap Between Boys, Girls Called ‘A Serious Crisis’

TAMPA – The throngs of boys lined up for Saturday’s release of the latest “Harry Potter” book may have been encouraging, but their enthusiasm for the final book in the series masks what some educators say is a crisis.Boys lag far behind girls in reading proficiency.

Reading Gap Between Boys, Girls Called ‘A Serious Crisis’

Found this article very interesting. Schools need to be aware of the different ways boys and girls learn. Check out the link for the whole article.

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Important Words in learning to read

Teaching Reading Strategies to young children

There are many simple ways of teaching reading strategies. Do you know the 12 most used that make up one quarter of children’s writing and reading?
They are a, I , it, the , and, in ,of, to , be, is, that and was. I
f you teach your child these words, it will help them improve their reading.
Here are a few ideas of how to help your child learn these words:
Pick one word at a time and point it out to them when you read to them.
Get your child to find the word on a page.
Play a game for example, “How many time can you find ‘the’ in this book?
Play a game of bingo with the words.
Make two set of cards and play snap

The Written Word » Teaching Reading Strategies to young children

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Teaching Reading with games

Teaching reading with games
Posted by SharonMW  June 18th, 2007.
Teaching reading strategies to your children can be difficult if they lose interest. If you use games it can make things more enjoyable. Here are just a few ideas.
1. Snap cards with words from the book.
2. Memory game using familiar words.
3. Sequencing the scenes from a story or fairy tale.
4. Bingo with words.

The Gaming Site » Teaching reading with games

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Reading Strategies and Reading Comprehension

Reading Strategies and Reading Comprehension
Learning to read begins at an early age and reading at home with your child is so important for improving their reading skills. Developing a child’s reading strategies and comprehension begins a long time before a child starts school or kindergarten.
Children learn so much about books and the world during the early years of childhood. Children learn to read by being read to.Some parents find everything’s an argument with reading. Reading is an enjoyable experience and children should feel it is always that way. Children love bedtime stories, that special quiet time with mom or dad. Once your child has started school they often bring home books to read.
Do you want a reading strategy that works? Effective reading strategies will assist your child when reading and improve their reading comprehension.
Here is a guide to help you read any book with your child.

Reading Comprehension Strategies on Squidoo

Here is a link to my Squidoo lens full of reading strategies

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Reading Comprehension Strategies Hub Page

Reading Comprehension Strategies
By Homeschooling.
Preparing for Reading
Reading Strategies for encouraging early readers.
Reading is a complex skill and your child doesn’t start to read all by themselves. You as a parent have to encourage an interest in reading and books. Here are 10 tips to help you encourage your child and teach them strategies to help them learn to read.1. Look for everyday opportunities to read to your child.

Reading Comprehension Strategies

Here is the link to my Hub Pages with 10 tips to help your child learn to read.

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Reading skills test

WORLD NEWS
Brain scans, reading skills tests combo better at predicting kids’ reading problems
By ANI
Monday June 11, 04:22 PMWashington, June 11 (ANI):
Researchers have found that functional brain scans and tests of reading skills when taken together are better at predicting which children will have ongoing reading problems.
The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by led by Fumiko Hoeft at Stanford University School of Medicine.As part of the study, researchers examined 73 Pittsburgh-area children of ages 8 to 12, who were identified as struggling readers, ran for a school year.
The researchers administered standard tests at the start of the year, for early literacy skills, including word identification, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, efficiency, and phonological processing, this last a critical measure of how well children process the sounds of letters and letter combinations.

Brain scans, reading skills tests combo better at predicting kids’ reading problems – Yahoo! India News

Found this article very interesting. Certainly something to think about when looking at reading problems.

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