Q. I am having trouble with my 6 year old. He is just not showing any interest at all in reading. I know it might just be a "boy thing" but it is starting to effect his grades in school. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could make it alittle more interesting for him or any tips on helping him learn how to read? Thanks!
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First of all try to get him to read books about subjects he likes.
Second if he still has trouble reading, DO NOT use phonics and ask his teachers to stop if that's how they're doing it. People bash the old methods (see-say), but my aunt is a teacher, I tutor kids after school, and my very own sister is dyslexic so I kind of have some experience with this. Kids who have trouble reading ARE NOT helped by phonics. They are too busy trying to remember the "rules" about how to say it. Plus they're already having trouble ... they get all upset and discouraged when the "rules" don't work or they can't remember the right one fast enough. I have NEVER met a child who learned anything from phonics lessons besides the cute little jingles. Their brains are blank past that. There's no comprehension.
If that's how he's been learning do some research on other methods because that's obviously not working. I have to undo the damage caused by those stupid "rules" every day. The teachers spend all the reading time teaching them instead of actually reading with the kids. Why don't kids have any reading comprehension skills? Well, I don't know. Maybe it's related to their NEVER reading a complete story. How can they understand that when their only lessons are broken down into single words?
Here is how I teach them, and it usually works. Find a book they are interested in. Buy a new one, take them to get a library card (sometimes they think that's cool), or whatever it takes. Get them interested in a book. It doesn't matter if it's an encyclopedia or Dr. Seuss. Read it out loud with them. Explain the meaning of every word they don't know. Read it every day. Eventually they will start to memorize it. When that happens KEEP READING IT. One day it will click ... these words are on the page and they mean the same thing, and they all fit together to make this book. He will know that many more words from having read it, his confidence will be increased from understanding a whole book, and his reading comprehension skills will be much better.
Good luck. If you have more questions about how I teach reading you can email me. I am teaching my own 4-year-old nephew (nearly five) after a year of his preschool's "Early Reading Lessons" ... which were (guess what) phonics. He's totally lost right now but we're working on memorizing "One Fish, Two Fish".
Also turn on "closed captioning" on your TV. It will take some getting used to, but if he sees the words as he hears them during his favorite cartoons, it could help him to make the connection.
First of all try to get him to read books about subjects he likes.
Second if he still has trouble reading, DO NOT use phonics and ask his teachers to stop if that's how they're doing it. People bash the old methods (see-say), but my aunt is a teacher, I tutor kids after school, and my very own sister is dyslexic so I kind of have some experience with this. Kids who have trouble reading ARE NOT helped by phonics. They are too busy trying to remember the "rules" about how to say it. Plus they're already having trouble ... they get all upset and discouraged when the "rules" don't work or they can't remember the right one fast enough. I have NEVER met a child who learned anything from phonics lessons besides the cute little jingles. Their brains are blank past that. There's no comprehension.
If that's how he's been learning do some research on other methods because that's obviously not working. I have to undo the damage caused by those stupid "rules" every day. The teachers spend all the reading time teaching them instead of actually reading with the kids. Why don't kids have any reading comprehension skills? Well, I don't know. Maybe it's related to their NEVER reading a complete story. How can they understand that when their only lessons are broken down into single words?
Here is how I teach them, and it usually works. Find a book they are interested in. Buy a new one, take them to get a library card (sometimes they think that's cool), or whatever it takes. Get them interested in a book. It doesn't matter if it's an encyclopedia or Dr. Seuss. Read it out loud with them. Explain the meaning of every word they don't know. Read it every day. Eventually they will start to memorize it. When that happens KEEP READING IT. One day it will click ... these words are on the page and they mean the same thing, and they all fit together to make this book. He will know that many more words from having read it, his confidence will be increased from understanding a whole book, and his reading comprehension skills will be much better.
Good luck. If you have more questions about how I teach reading you can email me. I am teaching my own 4-year-old nephew (nearly five) after a year of his preschool's "Early Reading Lessons" ... which were (guess what) phonics. He's totally lost right now but we're working on memorizing "One Fish, Two Fish".
Also turn on "closed captioning" on your TV. It will take some getting used to, but if he sees the words as he hears them during his favorite cartoons, it could help him to make the connection.
What would be the cause of this in a 6 year old?
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