Episode 232: Essentials for Building Reading Skills with Literacy Expert Lois Letchford
The Autism Helper Podcast
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How to Teach Reading to Children
You're teaching children to think as you teach them to read, because reading is thinking. You can't just use any word, you're using that word there and you'll watch children change the words until they become more confident and comfortable with them. Because we're going back to is that word in their oral language or if they substituted something else until they become familiar with the word that's written on paper. The moment you're teaching comprehension, along with decoding, you're giving the decoding value. It might just be purely going over students heads. I grew up a non diagnosed dyslexic person. I learned to read words without any comprehension. But I felt like readings waiting through mud.
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