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Strategies for Tutoring a Struggling Reader:


1. Prepare - Fires up the brain

2. Pause - Courtesy. Give them time to think.

3. Prompt - Does it look right, sound right, make sense?

4. Praise - Really needed!!

5. Probe - Do I really understand?


Struggling Readers' Strategies
for Improving Reading

1. The Most Important Strategy - and What NOT to do.
The most important thing you can do for a child is to read to them.

If you are serious about helping your child succeed in life, you will read to them at least 16 minutes each day. Start at BIRTH. Someone must read to them at least 16 minutes/day. More is better.

Reading to a child turns on their brain cells. Listening to Reading wires their ‘turned-on’ brain cells together.
Your child will have a higher IQ.


Feed your child’s brain by reading out loud. Read anything available. Read road signs, billboards, TV guide, recipes, religious materials, comics, even books. You get the idea. Read what you enjoy.

You will love it, your child will love it, and your child will become a good reader. You will be amazed and thrilled. Just 16 minutes/day.


MORE "Benefits of Reading to Struggling Readers"


Strategy -- What Not to Do.
Child doctors shout, “NO TV before age 2. It seems to be bad for concentration and causes short attention spans. Limit TV to 1 hour/day after that.
Limit TV to 1 hour after that. But use 'closed captions'. Use of TV sub-titles may double your child's functional reading ability, according to some experts.

2. Strategy -- How to Read Smoothly.
Practice reading Out Loud. Read with expression. ‘Ham’ it up. Have fun with it. Practice 16 minutes/day. It will get easier as you learn to let your eyes read ahead of the words coming out of your mouth.

Hint: See Step one above for a great audience.

3. Strategy -- How to keep your Mind from Wandering.
Just Speed-up your reading. Sounds too simple, but your mind gets bored when you read too slowly. Word……..Word……..Word…….. Word. Your mind is going much faster so it soon says, “B-o-r-i-n-g”. Off your mind goes to something more interesting.

When you speed-up, your mind is forced to stay with what you are reading instead of just checking in once in a while.

Research also shows you will remember more when you read faster. Practice 16 minutes/day.


4. Strategy -- How to Speed-up your Reading.
Intend to Speed-up. Try this. Use your fingers as your ‘pace car’. Place your fingers under the sentence, then move your fingers quickly and try to keep up as you read.


Paul R. Scheele, Learning Strategy Corporation, suggests you GLIDE your vision along the top half of the words you read, then ZIP BACK to the beginning of the next line.


As you practice, you will begin to see (and read) 2, 3, or more words at a time instead of just one at a time.

Practice 16 minutes/day and you will soon double your reading speed. Comfortably. And you will remember more of what you read.


Speed Reading Techniques - by Keith Drury (this will take you to an external link)

5. Strategy -- How to Remember what you read.
You remember more when you have some background knowledge about what you are reading.

To remember, PREPARE your mind by previewing what you are about to read. Pre-read, scan, overview, and familiarize yourself with what you are about to read.

Preparing your mind fires up the ‘memory engine’ of the brain. Brain scans show this. Preparing also builds ‘hooks’ in our brain on which to hang the new information. Prepare for about 16 minutes, as needed.
 



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