Modern first graders, as a rule, are already able to read. Parents try to teach the child to reading and the earlier, the better. But children come to school with different level of training. And if, reading, the child does it, passing or replacing letters, badly understands the meaning of read, swallows the terminations, does it very slowly, then it is necessary to sound the alarm.
Instruction
1. Ask for the help the logopedist. If the articulation device is insufficiently mobile, i.e. lips, language, the lower jaw move discordantly, pronunciation muffled, then the speed of reading will be low. The logopedist will help to establish the exact reasons of violations and will be able to correct them.
2. The teacher will help to reveal the nature of difficulties to you. Surveying skills of reading at the child, it is necessary to consider individual and typological, age features and also possibilities of reading. Inspection has to take place with use of texts from the school program. At the same time the attention is paid: on correctness of reading - arrangement of accents, mistakes in the terminations of words, replacement or admissions of letters, syllables, words, pretexts, nonagreement of adjectives with nouns; speed or speed of reading of the text - has to be close to informal conversation; expressiveness – emotional reading with the correct arrangement of logical accents. Requirement to expressiveness is imposed when the pupil reads the whole words already fluently, but not at a stage of poslogovy reading. After reading, tasks and questions which will help to reveal understanding of the sense read are set. Mindfulness of reading is very important component of skill, demanding check. If the pupil does not own skill of reading, then it is necessary to try to define whether he is able to put from letters syllables, and syllables in words, to read them, and in general whether he knows separate letters. About it the purpose it is possible to use cash desk of letters.
3. The psychologist who will be able to test the child will help to define difficulties in training in reading to you and to reveal deviations in development of the main mental processes. Very important for process of training in reading the sufficient level of development of attention, memory, orientation in space, the speech and hearing. By results of testing the expert will make to you recommendations about development of the functions which are lagging behind in development.
4. More precisely neuropsychological diagnostics will help to establish the reasons of difficulty of training of the child to you. By its results it is possible to draw a reliable conclusion on the level of development of mental functions: memories, tactile, acoustical and visual perception, attention, speech, spatial representations, thinking, any regulation and self-checking. All these processes basic and defining success in training of the child in school. Following the results of a research the specialist neuropsychologist will hold consultation during which he will in detail explain results of diagnostics, will make the general recommendations and will plan correctional work taking into account personal and physiological features of the school student.