3 Keys for Catching Up Our Struggling Readers

Do you have a few struggling readers that have fallen behind the rest of the class?

You could have a class of 20 great readers, but a few of them aren’t quite at the same level as the rest of the other students. The underlying reason is that they have a poor sound-based decoding foundation.

What can you do to help kids who aren’t meeting the benchmark?

In this video, I share three of my top tips for getting those struggling readers back up to grade level or above!

Find out about:

• The underlying problem with struggling readers
• Why you may have to change the status quo to catch up struggling readers
• The benefits of reading interventions
• The importance of using research-based interventions to help improve sound-based decoding
• How to develop a stronger sound-based decoding foundation using three core activities

[CastroMKE]

Love this. You said EXACTLY what I needed to hear. My 8-year-old daughter is 2nd reading percentile with about 2 months left to the year. Which means 1 hour per day will be about the amount of time necessary to make a significant dent to get to 50% by the end of the year, and over the summer, hopefully, get her AHEAD of the curve. I bought a Scholastics 1st Grade notebook, as she also needs help with Math, and just as you said, of course she is having trouble with word problems and instructions if she CAN'T READ THEM. To top it off, her "tutor" is always saying she has improved "so much", but her last State Test says otherwise. It's time I, as the only person who can truly care about her education, take this ever so serious matter into my own hands.

[CocoChanelle-]

Leap frog reading APP game is a fun way for students to play and learn words.

[vickiedinsmore]

Yes, do something different. Yes, duration and frequency are important. Yes, sound based interventions are foundational. This is called phonemic awareness. Students not only need to to be able to identify the first and last sounds in words, but also teach them how to delete sounds to make new words, and substitute sounds to make new words. This is foundational to processing the sounds in words with blends. Be sure to use multiple modalities [feel, see, and hear]. Many struggling readers and spellers are not able to hear the differences between sounds [phonemes]. They cannot hear the differences between vowel tones and voiced and voiceless sounds.
I too have worked with children for over 30 years on these very concepts. It is possible to make changes in two or three 20 minute sessions a week when the parents are participating two other times a week--- when you are consistent and when your lessons are tailored specifically to which phonemes and phonemic awareness skills are weak and incorporate phonics. In addition to the skills already mentioned, word endings, syllable division, and syllable stress also need to be taught so they can easily decode multiple syllable words.
Never give up. Children can and do learn, when given the right kind of help.

[blak_momba]

Basically make my son read all day sounds good to me thank you 😀

[alishadibwe]

I need help with reading I’m a student a reading is difficult for me

[Toomanynights]

What about ESL students… who are in high school..

[BaaraInawa]

Is this what you would recommend for an almost 8-year old?

[rjacksontwinsmom]

Is that 70 hours over a week, a couple, or a month

[wellnesscanceradvocate]

70 hours wow. How do you do that with a reader that struggles so she hates reading ?