General Reading Strategies
General Reading Strategies your client may find helpful:
- Make sure your client’s presented instructional material is at their academic level and continue to work on developing their rudimentary reading skills (e.g., phonological awareness, decoding, word recognition, reading fluency).
- As the client gets older, difficulties mastering these key academic skills may interfere with their learning in other areas.
- Continue to work on the client’s understanding of phoneme-grapheme correspondence (i.e., sound-letter correspondences).
- Reading material that includes many sight words may help increase automaticity.
- Teaching high-frequency words and spelling-based decoding strategies may also be helpful.
- Model fluent reading. Teach the client to self-identify reading errors and provide them with corrective feedback.
- It may be helpful to have your client read along with books/text on a computer using a “read” program such as text-to-speech programs or software.
- Every effort should be made to keep the reading process as enjoyable as possible for your client. It is paramount to keep reading fun and maintain a student’s motivational interest. The client should be encouraged to read books that she/he find engaging and are of interest to her.
- Your client may benefit from assisted reading and practicing words in isolation to improve her/his reading.
- In assisted reading, the student reads aloud while a helping reader (e.g., adult) follows along silently. If the student makes an error, the helping reader corrects it.
- Steps for implementing the assistive reading strategy can be found at: http://www.interventioncentral.org/academic-interventions/reading-fluency/reading-practice
- In assisted reading, the student reads aloud while a helping reader (e.g., adult) follows along silently. If the student makes an error, the helping reader corrects it.
Websites
For Students:
Provide the client with fun opportunities to build her/his academic skills in reading. She/he may enjoy the following websites that have reading games:
For Parents:
The following websites may be helpful to her parents:
- http://www.readingrockets.org/
- https://www.education.com/resources/kindergarten/phonological-awareness/ (includes worksheets, activities, and games for building phonological awareness skills)
Handouts:
- For more information in reading, see this handout: Reading Resources and Strategies
- For more general reading strategies for adolescents and adults, see this handout: General Reading Strategies for Adolescents and Adults
- http://resourcelibrary.ucalgaryblogs.ca/files/2022/03/Dyslexia-Intervention-Tips1.pdf
- For more information on dyslexia, see this handout: Dyslexia Fact Sheet
- Explaining Dyslexia to children – http://resourcelibrary.ucalgaryblogs.ca/files/2022/03/Explaining-dyslexia-to-children.pdf
- For more information on Reading Accommodations and Strategies, see this handout: Reading Disability Accommodations