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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?
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The Most Important Strategy
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1. The Most
Important Step-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 "Read Aloud Benefits"
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. Including high
school students. More TV: the lower the grades. Less TV:
the higher the grades.
2. 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.
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.
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.
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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