Parents of children who have already mastered elementary reading techniques are often interested in how to teach a child to read quickly and well. Meanwhile, learning to quickly read information from a sheet of paper is much more difficult than simply putting letters into words and sentences. During the reading, auditory and visual analyzers, and memory, and imagination, and thinking, and much more are involved. In addition, the speed of reading should be comparable with the speed of speech.
In this article we will tell you why some children read at a slow pace, and also how to teach a child to read quickly and correctly.
The reasons for slow reading in children
The main reasons that lead to slow reading in a child can be as follows:
- lean vocabulary;
- banal inattention ;
- bad memory ;
- weak articulatory apparatus;
- insufficient volume of the operative field of vision. In this case, the child does not look at the whole word, but only the first 2-3 letters;
- The habit of re-reading each word several times;
- too complicated literature, not suitable for age.
Exercises for the development of rapid reading
To teach a child to read beautifully, easily and quickly, it is necessary to do such exercises as:
- "We mark the time." To do this, select a small text, a suitable child by age. We mark the stopwatch for 1 minute and count how many words the child has read during this time. After the crumb rest, ask him to read the same text again. Each time the number of words read for a certain time will increase.
- "We sing out the main thing". Some children, on the contrary, read so quickly that they can not grasp the meaning of the information they read. After your child read a piece of text, ask him to tell what was the main idea in it. If the child does not cope with the task, the reading should be repeated.
- «Role reading». In order to attract the attention of the child to fiction, invite him to read by roles. First, one of the roles will be performed by you, and then let the kid himself try to read in different voices.
- "We build up words." Take as a basis a short word, for example, "cat". Next, along with the baby, try to attach one or more new letters to it so that a new word comes out. Continue until the child is interested.
- "Accents". In a playful game form, explain to your son or daughter what an accent is. Pronounce different words, incorrectly singling out the stressed syllable, and suggest the kid to correct you. So the child learns to understand the text much faster.
- "We are looking for a word". For the development of verbal memory, the following exercise is perfect: on a small card print a text from several words. After that, loudly name one of them and ask the child to find it in the text as soon as possible. In such a game you can play with a company of friends, thus arranging a small competition.
- "Consonants". Often the speed of reading a child slows down, if in the text there are several consonant letters in a row.
The kid "gets stuck" in one place, trying to read one sentence for a long time. Daily offer the child complex words and sentences, slowly and carefully pronouncing each of them. - "Line of sight". If the reason for slow reading lies in the insufficient field of vision, the following exercise can help. On a sheet of paper, draw a table, in each cell of which you place one letter. Point the handle on each cell, let the child say what he sees in the table. Then proceed to reading the string of letters from left to right and from top to bottom.