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We have a lot of information on our site about teaching comprehension skills and how parents can help at home. The following links can help you get started on helping your son develop his skills.
There are many ways to help your child develop his reading skills. Sight words can be practiced using flashcards, which you can easily make at home using index cards. Use pictures, symbols and colors to help reinforce the word.
Beginning readers need lots of practice reading it takes time, practice, time, and more practice! Work with your daughter's teacher to learn exactly at what level she is reading.
You can do a lot to help your child practice. One way is to use modeling to introduce these skills. As you read to your child, sound out some of the words before you say them completely. Also, you can make a game to practice blending.
To keep your child engaged with reading, you should keep a wide variety of books on hand, and make sure to include books on topics that interest him.
It is difficult to isolate one primary goal for all content area instruction. However, in terms of literacy, the main target in the content area classroom should be reading comprehension.
Parents are often unsure about how to help their children at home, and this is particularly true of the parents of English language learners, who may feel that they have nothing to offer their children if they themselves do not speak English.
Special education referral for English language learners is a complex issue that is confounded by both language and cultural issues.
The Pura Belpré Award is given biannually to a Latino/a writer and a Latino/a illustrator for outstanding works of literature that celebrate the
Word banks are a great way to teach sight words, especially for ELLs who are also working on building English vocabulary, and there are lots of ways to use word banks that are really fun for kids.