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My son is almost 11 and has always struggled with reading. I've noticed that it's the little joining words which cause him problems. ie. they, then, of, he, his where, when etc etc. Not sure of their proper title??? He knows how to read them, but often gets them wrong.
I've thought perhaps I should make up some flash cards with these words and drill then. Has anyone else experienced this issue, and what have you to done to help. By now I am expecting him to be able to read with some fluency. He's currently half way through the first Seton gd 4 reader. I'd like to do something concrete to help him omprove. Any tips?
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Could you illustrate them with cute stick figures and lots of color. They could be written in big black bold lettering and then draw 3 or so stick figures doing something like running and then have a small label with names under the stick figures, Tom, Mary, Bob - whatever. Underneath you have something like are running. YOu could read the sentence both ways orally. I don't know that I'd make a drudgery with flashcards but help him form a picture in his mind of what the word actually means. For where, put a box over something and have the box with a door on it. Outside the box, have the word where in bold print followed by is the ball or something like that with a big question mark. Then when he opens the door, the ball would be inside the box. Actually if he likes drawing, he could do some and let the creativity run wild. It really doesn't matter what they look like as long as they help him place a mental image in his head.
Now these are just ideas and not a particular problem we've had with these words but I have seen the difference a real image can make. My 14 yo had trouble with the elements of the periodic table until we bought cards that had the actual element pictured with the symbol. Suddenly he had no trouble at all learning them.
There is something about these strong visual learners that learn with big picture. Anyways it is an idea for whatever it is worth.
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These DVDs are probably too young for your son, but we have Meet the Sight Words from Preschool Prep. My 4 yo loves them and has mastered a lot of the more common sight words, just from watching them. It helped my 7 yo daughter, too. She struggles a bit with sight words herself. Maybe you could get them from the library and ask him to watch them with a younger sibling - kind of sneak it in for him.
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You could print out the Dolch word list and have him read those to you. You can find them at several websites.
Memorizing the sight words will definitely increase his fluency. Dyslexics particularly struggle with sight words. Also the Special Services department at Seton might be able to offer some help.
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Tricia,
I just came across this free online phonics program today, while seaching for some help for my six year old dd. I haven't had too much of an oportunity to look through it, but I did read that it is helpful for for remediation or with those who struggle with dyslexia. It's here
Hope it is helpful!
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ooooh, there are some pretty interesting links here at don potter's site (scroll down).
This should keep me busy for quite a while!
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Maybe if you created a power point presentation on the computer with the flash cards that he could use for drilling himself? they're pretty easy to put together...in fact, I may see if my ds16 will make one that I could email anyone who is interested in...I've been meaning to ask him again for my own little ones!
you can add colors, sound effects, pictures (if necessary, but I think visually, you'd just want the words)
Let me know if you're interested.
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You can teach the words any way you'd like, but I think your best bet in having your son reach sight word reading fluency is to print out a list like the Dolch list. Time your son for a minute each day reading the list to try and reach a minimum of 80 words a minute.
The key in fluency is accuracy along with speed. Once your son reaches a good fluency reading rate with sight words (assuming he has a solid grounding in phonics), his reading problems should disappear.
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Thank you all for your replies.
Lori the powerpoint sounds GREAT!!
I've dug out my beautiful Jan Bret Dolch list and will work on it again.
It's strange, sometimes he can read beautifully.Last night he had almost no problems. I think one of the main issues is concentration. He's very easily distracted in all areas  . We'll keep moving on...
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Hi,
My daughter (9 and 1/2) is dyslexic and struggles with sight words. She is tutored twice a week by a reading specialist. The tutor uses orton-gillingham. She uses flash cards to drill what she calls red words (sight words). The words are written on red index cards as my daughter needs them to read the phonetic readers she is working on. We put them on a ring. We have to change the order once in awhile or she just memorizes the order instead of "reading" them.
When she is first learning a new sight word, she has to tap her arm for each letter in the word. "i" (tap), "n" (tap) spells "in". She also has her write some of the words -- like a spelling test.
She also uses these flash cards: http://www.carsondellosa.com/cd2/Products/CarsonDellosa/PID- 3910.aspx
They have a word on one side and a sentence using the word on the other side. You could probably make your own. We have also played bingo games with sight words.
I have also used free printable materials from a sight that had two different sized flash cards, bingo cards, etc. I can try to dig up that sight if you are interested.
I hope this makes sense and is helpful.
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I'm jumping back into this to add that my ds who is 10 and not reading fluently seems to be benefitting quite a bit from a program called Great Leaps. It is quite expensive but it has been an excellent investment. We spend 3 minutes/day (3 timed 1-minute readings) on it & he loves it.
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