2 interesting tricks that reseach has shown helps young people with their reading comprehension skills is learning.
1.nursery rhymes and the nonsense books from Dr Seuss. It seems to help them make sense of regular text.
2.Reading out loud to them.
When they start reading to you quickly help them when they get stuck on the words they cannot read. It is pointless sounding out the individual letters in the English language and the word as a whole gets memorised not the individual letters. Ironically the lack of struggle at this early stage of learning to read helps them to enjoy reading.
Interesting reading is a book by Mem Fox orginally printed in 2001 Reading Magic ISBN 0 330 36282 8
Seem she has been teaching this for some time and getting excellent results with parents who read to their kids when small.
Alex
