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Remedial Reading Page

Click on the following questions to get the answers.

1. What kinds of books should my child be reading?
2. How much time should my child spend reading?
3. My child avoids reading.  What should I do?
4. How can I encourage my child to like reading?
5. What should I do when my child makes a mistake when reading?
6. Some days my child seems to have more difficulty reading than other days. Should I worry about this?
7. Is it OK for a child to skip a word she doesn't know?
8. My child doesn't want to sound out words he doesn't know.  Should I insist that he do so?
9. My child seems to spend more time looking at the pictures than reading.  What should I do?
10. Sometimes my child seems to have trouble reading a whole sentence without going back and re-reading parts of it.  Is this a problem?
11. Sometimes when my child is reading, he gets annoyed if I tell him a word he doesn't know.  Why?
12. My child sometimes reads or writes letters and words backwards.  Does this mean that my child is dyslexic?
13. In addition to reading to my child and listening to her read, what else can I do to encourage her reading development?

*Information was reproduced with permission from "For Parents of Beginning Reader: Questions and Answers" by Donna Scanlon, Ph.D.  Child Research and Study Center - The University at Albany, SUNY

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