Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills at Home
How to Promote Reading Comprehension for the Struggling Reader at Home
By Kumar Sathy
Your child is struggling with reading comprehension, reading like a robot, or just unwilling to voluntarily pick up a book and read. You’ve tried everything and exhausted every reward you could possibly dangle in front of your child, and still, you can’t get your child to voluntarily pick up a book and read. What’s the answer? It’s strikingly simple, ridiculously rewarding and equally controversial.
As an experienced educator, former school administrator, tutor, and author of educational materials, I am going to catch a lot of flak for this, but I firmly believe that the best thing a parent can do is resist the temptation to intervene, interrupt, and interrogate while a child is reading.
