subject: Accelerate Learning With Guided Reading [print this page] Accelerate Learning With Guided Reading Accelerate Learning With Guided Reading
If current goal is to teach someone to read, but you just don't exactly know how to proceed with it effectively, I'd recommend you resort to guided reading lessons when teaching. If you're devoid of a teaching plan then, at the absolute minimum you've got to least have sessions of guided reading with your kid. If you don't, it would be very easy, even for a more responsible parent, to overlook some aspects of language which the child would greatly benefit from learning. The result would be a child not knowing some basic combinations of letters and sounds, required to read the most basic children's story.
In order to avoid such problems, I suggest that you engage in a very strong and supportive reading program with your child. You need a program which allows the child to learn sight words as well as phonic sounds. Now I know that this sounds like common sense and something that is not even worth checking for, but believe me when I say that some of the lesser programs actually omit some very important parts from the contents and, well, if you get yourself one of these you're probably not going to be aware of the fact that you're missing out on something until it becomes too late. What that results in is a frustrated child who cannot make out the words and sounds of the story he's assigned to read, because he hasn't learnt them yet.
Situations like these have for negative effect to demotivate and discourage quite rapidly any child from ever reading again. If you'd like your child to love reading, then you need to do your job as a parent from the onset: be supportive, caring, and integrate these aspects into the reading program which you've intended to follow with your infant.
