Information, Opinion, and Personal Stories on Language and Learning
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Slow and Labored Reading
Once my students have jumped that first hurdle of decoding skills, they often have a second hurdle of reading fluently. This can be a second challenge for them - as high as the first. This linked article is a good overview of causes. The list of solutions is helpful. I would also add shared reading to model and instruct inflection, punctuation, and the rhythm of our language. Students also need to a lot of practice reading to carryover the phonemic awareness, phonetics, and decoding rules they have learned in isolation. Slow Reading: Causes and Solutions
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