Reading InterventionsReading interventions are actions taken by you, your child's teacher, and by reading specialists to help your child improve their reading skills. If you notice your child having difficulties pronouncing words with certain letters, you can work with them a little more on those words to improve their fluency. If in school your child's teacher notices a difficulty, they will work with them one on one or with a small group of children who have the same difficulty. In the situations where these early reading interventions have not been successful, a reading specialist will be brought in to analyze the situation and create a methed to help your child achieve success. Conquer Reading ChallengesAlot of reading interventions are put in place to aid children who are having difficulties with their vision, hearing, or speech development.The solutions can be simple or complex, but remember to be patient while working with your child's teacher and the school to come up with the solution that is best for your child.
Vision Challenges with ReadingHere's one reading challenge to overcome -- Let's say, your child comes home and announces they hate to read!Please communicate and work with your child's teacher to figure out why your child feels this way and how to come up with a solution to this problem. This can begin with sending a note or email to your child's teacher. In the note explain what you have observed, squinting while reading, holding what they are reading either really close to them or far away. Also, if your child complains of headaches after reading this could be a sign of vision problems.
You can request the school's nurse to perform an exam and send a report home for you to take to a doctor for a more extensive exam. Another reading challenge involving vision would be if your child transposes or mixes up letters while they are reading. Dyslexia is a challenge they can be overcome through learning how to compensate for it -- please communicate with your child's teacher if you notice any switching of letters while your child is reading. Please visit optometrist-advice.com to read more about children's vision and find a checklist of signs of a vision problem Hearing and Speech Challenges with ReadingIf you notice your child having difficulties with pronouncing certain words while speaking or reading, there could be a problem with your child's hearing or speech development.As a step in finding out what may be causing the problem, the school nurse can perform a hearing exam and send results home for you to take to a doctor for a more extensive exam. To help in the area of speech development, keep a record of the words you notice your child having difficulties saying. Take your information to your child's teacher and ask them if they have noticed similiar difficulties. If your child's school has a speech pathologist, they can perform an evaluation and review the results with you.
Click here to visit sites that can help with hearing and vision issues. Other Difficulties or Problems with ReadingOther areas that could benefit from early reading interventions, would be if your child has difficulties with sequencing the events in a story or recalling important details of what they have read.If your child is having difficulties recalling the events of a story, you might want to read about short and long term memory. I have found a great site that has some information about memory. At Reading For Kids you’ll find valuable information on short term and long term memory.
It could be that your child just hasn't found what they like to read. For example, I had a student who thought books were to predictable, so I introduced him to s series titled "Choose Your Own Adventure" he loved those books -- he read all the books our school library had -- he had his mom take hom to the public library to read the ones they had -- problem was solved! Talk with your children, notice what activities they enjoy and find books on their level about those activities. If they are having difficulty with a certain type of word, make flashcards of those words and spend a few extra minutes working with those words. I would tell my students and their parents that -- Communication is the key to solving problems and that I could not read their minds. They needed to explain as best they could what problems they were having and by working together, we would find the solution! To learn about some fun crafts and how they can help with reading, click here. Let me know what you think about these reading intervention ideas! For ideas on how to conquer other reading challenges, click here. For ideas on how to provide your child with a variety of books to read, click here. If you have found these ideas helpful, and would like to make a donation to help with the expense of operating this site, click on the donation button. Thank you!
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