Important reminders and tips for planning a successful reading program.
Contrary to previous blog posts, I would like to link my last article on teaching reading strategies to this blog post on teaching reading on the elementary school level.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to 'catch' the problems before they fester and become real serious problems in middle school. It is very hard to turn a sturggling reader into one who suddenly starts to love books. But like any challenge, it can happen.
Here are a few considerations for planning a reading program for the elementary school level.
1. Sensitize your students to oral work but do not overdo it.
2. Spend a good portion of your reading program on decoding skills.
Some reading reminders:
1. Different programs work for different populations.
2. Make use of the textbook as much as possible.
3. Decide what is going to be the 'core' of your program (ie. the starting point - the word, letter/sound correspondences, the sentence or, the paragraph)
4. Decide on a pattern of development: ABC - words - sentences - paragraph and the order of how you plan to teach it.
