How can you get children to increase their reading comprehension?
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Read to them alot. There are some things you can do at the grocery store also. Give them the shopping list and help them sound out the item and then have them find it in the store. I also put signs all over the house with the name of each item on the sign. For instance a sign on the dish washer that said dish washer. They tend to understand that the word is more than just letters it means something. Hope this helps.
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Part of the child's regimen should include independent reading, either oral or silent. Books need to be at the correct instructional level. One way to find appropriate books is to take a 100-word paragraph from the possible book, have the child read it aloud to an adult who listens for errors in decoding. There should be no more than 5 words that were difficult or unreadable by the child. If a young reader can't decode more than 95% of the words in a book, they will not improve their comprehension skills; they will, instead, be frustrated by decoding difficult words and skim over phrases and sentences rather than focusing on understanding.
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Let the child read 30-1hr a night,and have them read aloud.
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Have them practice reading, read to them, and make sure to have them ask questions about anything they don't understand.
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My kids' teachers recommended reading short and simple, 'easy-reader' stories and having the child retell the story to you. They should be able to name all the main characters and retell the story sequentially. From there, they recommended asking questions along the way as you read longer story books, like Auntie Em's advice.
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Try schema cognition. I know it sounds terrible but it's a great way of getting kids involved in understanding what they read and how their own experiences can be called upon to help understand what they are reading. They are using this schema theory in my daughter's kindergarten class and it works well. Useful link: http://www2.aasa.ac.jp/~dcdycus/LAC2000/davidnor.htm
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Give them interesting things to read! Then make sure they have good phonic and phonemic skills. This will lead to fluency and they will be off and flying.
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Teach them to make pictures in their heads as they read....like watching a movie. You can do this by you reading to them at first, and then you read half and your child reads half, then they read all by themselves. Also, have them play "teacher" and think of questions to ask YOU after the story or passage. They think that is fun and don't realize you are teaching them comprehension strategies.
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I am reading a book about reading comprehension. Comprehension is about active reading. The fact that you come out with more questions is a great thing! Children have different modalities to reading and try to find their way. Ask a lot of questions... and infer to what the author is getting at. Read in a realm that isn't to hard yet hard enough for them to progress to the next level. Don't put too much control on the reading as well being too much on the sidelines. It is a gudied process for both you to learn the appreciation of text. I am on my way to increase my own understanding. I hope this help!
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