Tag: comprehension skills

Learn to read, Literacy, Read for meaning, Reading Comprehension

Tips for parents to help their child read for meaning

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Tips

  • Build your child’s spoken word and vocabulary skills by having regular robust discussions around the dinner table, about a variety of topics, as recommended by LB Literacy.
  • When reading with your child, ask them questions focusing on the 5 W’s (who, what, where, when and why) to focus your child and to check their understanding.
  • Help your child to find answers to these literal questions by looking for clues in the pictures and the words of the text.
  • Ask questions that require your child to link what happened in one part of the story with an outcome in another part of the story (exploring cause and effect).
  • Pause reading midway through a story and ask your child to predict what they think will happen next. Encourage them to base their answer on what has already happened and what they know about the characters in the story.
  • Encourage your child to make inferences based on what they already know.
  • When reading with your child introduce the before, during and after approach recommended by Reading Rockets.

To explore the possibility of Reading Therapy with Cheryl  Cupido in Gqeberha / Port Elizabeth (Walmer Heights /Lorraine/ Sunridge), contact her for a free consultation to discuss how she can assist you.

Literacy, Literacy Support, Read for meaning, Reading Comprehension

How will I know if my child can’t read for meaning?

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Reading difficulty reading for meaning literacy Cheryl Cupido

Signs that your child can’t read for meaning

  • My child reads one word at a time in a staccato manner.
  • My child reads in a robotic voice showing little expression.
  • My child ignores punctuation e.g. reads past full stops without pausing.
  • My child cannot remember what he / she has read immediately after reading.
  • My child cannot answer basic questions about the text they have read.
  • My child is unable to connect ideas in a passage.
  • My child is usable to distinguish important information from insignificant details in a passage.
  • My child is distracted when reading passages.
  • My child will stop and talk about something, often completely unrelated to what they are reading, in the middle of a sentence or passage.
  • My child makes many mistakes while reading and makes no attempt to self-correct.

Reading difficulties that affect a child’s ability to read for meaning

Lianne from LB Literacy highlights areas of struggle by asking the following questions.

Does your child…

  • have difficulty recognizing rhyming words?
  • struggle to identify words that start with the same sound?
  • struggle with associations between letters and their sounds?
  • still confuse vowel sounds?
  • have difficulty manipulating the sounds in words?
  • guess words based on the first letter rather than sounding them out?
  • leave out/skip words in a sentence?
  • add words that are not there?
  • struggle to recognize repeated words, sounding out the same words repeatedly?
  • constantly reread words or parts of a sentence even when they are familiar with the words or have read them correctly?
  • occasionally read words in reverse? E.g. ‘saw’ is read as ‘was’
  • make visual errors where they confuse letters such as b, d, v, w, f, t, m, u and n?
  • leave off the endings of some words? E.g. ‘games’ becomes ‘game’
  • add endings that are not there? E.g. ‘play’ becomes ‘playing’
  • struggle to segment the sounds in words? (Segment means to break words up into sounds = spelling)
  • struggle to blend the sounds in words? (Blending means to push the sounds together to form words = reading)
  • make no attempt to self-correct?
  • show signs of resisting or avoiding reading activities?
  • read excruciatingly slowly, one word at a time, sounding out each and every word to the point that all meaning in the sentence is lost?
  • read words in isolation with inappropriately long pauses between each word in a sentence?
  • making advanced phonic errors because they do not know the language code? E.g. Reads

To explore the possibility of Reading Therapy face-to-face with Cheryl  Cupido in Gqeberha / Port Elizabeth (Walmer Heights /Lorraine/ Sunridge), contact her for a free consultation to discuss how she can assist you.