Help! My Child Can't Read!
As a second grade teacher, I heard this sentence from too many parents to count. Every parent wants what is best for his or her child and we all want our children to be doing all the things they are "supposed" to be doing successfully. I could go on and on about the pressure we place on children at a young age, the loss of play and socialization, and the value placed on academics at the expense of learning experiences. But I'll save you all the speech. Let's get down to brass tacks. Your child is not reading at the level you and/or his teacher feels is appropriate.
What can you do? Well, you can hire me for $50 an hour! Or you can try some of these reading strategies at home. These are strategies to use with young children and emergent readers and focuses mostly on decoding, using phonemic rules and awareness to read the words. (We'll talk comprehension another day).
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