Comments on: How Do I Improve His Reading Skills?

By: Jeanette

Jeanette — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:36:52 +0000

Firstly make sure tha reading is an enjoyable experience for both of you. If it becomes over laden with stress then neither of you will enjoy it.
Read in different contexts – recipes whilst making cookies, instructions to games, shopping lists, comics, road signs – anything that highlights why reading is important and its role in our world.
Go the the library and choose books that INTEREST him. He’ll be more encouraged to want to read a book about sharks/soccer/bugs if that is what he is interested in.
Read online stories where the pictures are animated and the book reads the story aloud whilst he can follow along.
Talk about books and whether he enjoyed them, or have him guess what comes next.
But most of all read, make it part of your routine, make him see it is important to you by letting him see you reading for pleasure….and enjoy it. It is one of the most important skills a young child can learn.

By: marissac

marissac — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:45:55 +0000

get your son to keep reading and reading to build his vocabulary and comprehension skills. after all, they say you don’t get any better unless you work on it. if you have to, work with him on his reading mostly by helping him pronounce unfamiliar words and help him learn the definitions to get him familiarized.

By: gardog39

gardog39 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:55:53 +0000

You could hire a special teacher or tutor for him or have him read for a half our every night then have him write a summery of what he read and stuff like that test him that might really help but if your seeking profecional help check out this site that i found for u online http://tutoring.sylvanlearning.com/
Hope i helped tell him Good Luck!

By: Izetriye

Izetriye — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:02:43 +0000

I have a 7 yr old and what I did was sit with him , With very easy short books. and read them with him sounding out each word until he started to read on his own.

By: Casey S

Casey S — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:53:58 +0000

singing songs and reading the words at the same time.
memorizing nursery rhymes and then reading them
this helps with forward reading….anticipating the next word
doing these repeatedly really helps.
read short stories and discuss afterwards with him the charactors and the moral or content of the story
ask how is it related to his life or a friends life
you give him examples.
give examples
these help with memory and comprehension
read to him more difficult chapter books. this helps with vocabularly. discuss new words and their meanings and how else the word can be used.
the more and various types of literature that YOU read to your children (while being interactive) the more interest they become about reading and language and imagination.
reading opens up the mind to better and faster learning in all areas
it is so much fun to do this for your child when they are so young….they love the closeness….they feel secure and happy to learn. it gives them happiness and you tooooo!!!
:) my kids are super smart and creative. !!!

By: grace k

grace k — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:07:58 +0000

Well, I’ve never had problems with reading. I love it. But the thing to reading is first enjoying it. So maybe you could have him read books he really likes and then read to him when he’s really tired. Heres a pointer… Each word is part of a picture, each sentence is a picture. The whole time you read a book your own type of movie should be going on in your head. And it helps if when you, or someone else, is reading him the book, read it very enthusiastically and ask him questions during it to see what his opinion is about the book. He should find reading fun eventually and have no problems.
Hope this helps!

By: wasim h

wasim h — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:41:16 +0000

read to him every night

By: Willow

Willow — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:48 +0000

GVE HIM DETENSIONS

By: shirl_se

shirl_se — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:34:23 +0000

I have no idea what MCAS are, but I will give you the same answer I give to every parent with a problem. Why have you waited so long? In all honesty you should have been reading to your child and encouraging his/her interest in books since birth! Of course not all children have the same abilities/interests etc. Some are naturally more academic than others, but you as a Mother should have picked up on this and addressed it at the time. My view is, and you will not like it, is that you are more concerned about your child’s public failure than cultivating his personal success.
The greatest gift a Mother can give her child is time…..Sadly todays society makes that almost impossible, but what time you do have should be spent in learning and exploring, encouraging curiosity, not in going to see a film, or sharing a DVD or a pizza. I am not an old fashioned, opinionated has been lol I was a mother at 16 with no manual, no older siblings to advise, and no pattern to follow other than instinct. Good luck to you and your son x.