Helping Students with Reading Challenges
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What are some ways you can help students with reading deficiencies?
the college i work for offers a GED class for students with difficulties.they also will find tutors free of charge for the students.
I assign everyone a paragraph to read out loud at home for homework. I encourage them read it over and over again.
Then I have them come to class and have them read it in class out loud. This gives them them the confidence they sometimes need.
Students with reading challenges should read more, this is the best way to help them. Also work with them more outside of class, tutoring time.
Going over vocabulary words in class and providing tricks to how to remember these words is helpful. Also, demonstrating the application of the words if possible.
I find that students with with reading difficulties tend to not participate in class. I call on them to respond to questions and encourage them to discuss the current topic. I don't correct language errors but encourage them to participate and become successful. I pay attention to their areas of difficulty and focus on activities where they can improve in these weak areas.
I've had several students in the past who had language barriers and did not know how to help them other than to recommend english classes. Sometimes just speaking more slowly helps.
Some of the ways I have helped students with reading deficiencies is by using flashcards and giving them more time to complete assignments. I have also worked with them one-on-one.
Try and put them with someone that is strong in reading and work with them one on one and help mentor them. If theis doesn't work then I would have to send them to our DOE and have her work with the student and get professional outside help through a learning center.
At the beginning of a class, I like to take the chapters and break them down for the students. As we get further along, I slowly start having them break down the chapters themselves. I always give them the key words that they are looking for when they read, but I make them fill in more blanks as we advance through the course. Just giving them all the answers won't help them. They must grow and become become life long learners.
using audio visual material for teaching will help the students with reading challenges.
Practice practice practice. They more they do something the better they become at it.
Using illustrations seem to help get the idea across. At our school we also have the privilege of sending them to the learning center and class workshops to help them along.
We have went as far as having a translator present for the hearing impared and then make sure that during lab or demos that he could see you lips moving.
I create exercises for everyone in the class that they have to be the "teacher". They have to come up and code the chart for the whole class thereby helping some of them with reading disabilities practice without them really realizing that is what I am doing. They seem to do well at it as they are relaxed and are dealing with their peers who put no pressure on them because everyone gets a chance at doing it.
I have found that visual aids provide concrete applications of various abstract concepts. Also, pre-assessments early in the course help identify problem areas to where we as educators can seek out additional tools and resources for needy students.
Visual tools are a great idea. I use a lot of PowerPoints in my classroom, which breaks the concepts down into smaller parts. This would be advantageous to a student with a reading deficiency, as well as a student who speaks another language as his/her primary language. I also post the PowerPoints so the students can review them as much as they need to.
HAVE YOUR STUDENT TO RELAX AND HAVE ONE ONE TIME FOR HIM ARE HER
Students relate the written instructions to an application if they are encougaged to follow along a bullet point hand-out while a practical demonstration is being given.
