For most of us, reading is as natural as breathing,but it didn’t begin that way. Children don’t enter the world reading.
Much like math, reading is a composed of a variety of skills that work pretty seamlessly together for most of us. So when we are teaching our children to read, we often neglect some of the basic skills that a child needs to develop in order to read fluently with understanding. Here are a few:
- letter recognition
- the ability to scan letters in the correct order
- the ability for the eyes to scan back and forth across the page
- sounding out individual letters and letter combinations
- recognition of whole words
- understanding reading
As I’ve worked with students, I’ve discovered two major challenges that students have:
- inability to read words
- inability to understand what is readContinue Reading