Teaching Reading in High School

Is All About Reading Comprehension

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By the time most children get to high school they should be able to read so you have to concentrate on reading comprehension. There will be a few kids who have fallen through the cracks and you might have to spend some time with these students.

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The best way if you can do it is a buddy system. This way you pair up a good reader with a struggling reader and hopefully the magic happens but not always. Some kids just don't want to learn. If some children are behind in reading and they want to learn bring out the Montessori sandpaper letters with phonics and see if they make a difference.

If the children's parents are responsive to suggestion and don't complain about spending money to help their children ask them to look at an online phonics program. All high school students should have a dictionary and know how to use it. This will save you time so make sure the students get into the habit of looking up the words they do not understand. This will help the student's reading in the content areas also.

To improve the reading ability of high school students the students must read. As they say practice makes perfect. As a teacher I have noticed that the students who read in their spare time in class are usually the better students. If most students just got a lot more practice in reading they would be better readers, it's as simple as that. But there are a lot of distractions in today's world and there are better things to do, like playing computer games and watching TV.

Teaching Reading in High School

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When You Are Teaching Reading in Middle School You Can Be Bringing Problem Readers Up to Speed

Students who can't read in middle school are at the bottom of the class and they are having trouble in all subjects. If the students can't read then they will get left behind. Usually if a child is having trouble reading in middle school it could be a hearing problem or a seeing problem.

I do a simple hearing test like read after me and I will say a poem to see if the child can repeat what I said. If the child cannot pronounce the words as I say them then there might be a hearing problem.

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To check eyes I put a number of small dots on the board and ask the child how many. I make sure I can see the dots from where the child is sitting. If they can't see the dots I keep moving them closer to the board until they can.

If they can hear and see properly then it is time to bring out the phonics. I use Montessori sandpaper letters as I think this is the fastest way to get the phonic sounds into the child's head.

A lot of children who are struggling with reading in middle school are the K learners from the VAK model. That means they learn by doing and feeling. With sandpaper letters they are tracing the letters so they are doing, and with the sandpaper they are feeling so it fits in perfectly with their learning mode.

There is a lot more to it than that but that gets them started and they can usually see their progress so that keeps them motivated. It is not as simple as all this but it gets them stated.

When You Are Teaching Reading in Middle School You Can Be Bringing Problem Readers Up to Speed

For more information about teaching your child to read see http://www.animalsdinosaursandbugs.com/Teaching-Reading.htm Peter Legrove spends most of his time in front of a mixed bunch of teenagers trying to instill in them some semblance of the road to survive the future. This article is copyright © peter legrove. http://www.animalsdinosaursandbugs.com

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