Help for Struggling Readers

Reading is such an important part of a persons daily life. Growing up, every student has a different relationship with reading. It can come easily for some students but not so easily for others. As a teacher, it is very important to understand when your students aren’t understanding what they are reading and why. Young readers need to be able to develop reading skills like turning what they are reading into a picture in their head. As talked about in the chapter, students don’t fully comprehend what they have read until a considerable amount of discussion brings the picture into focus. I found it fascinating to read about this in this chapter and how even when students do construct pictures in their minds, they still need to understand how to search through the paragraph for information to fully understand the text. This chapter has shown me that there are a lot of things I would have assumed students would understand but learning about the key strategies for helping struggling readers has taught me that what might come second nature to me now, did not always. No matter what the subject, every teacher plays a very important role in educating their students on strategies on how best to read and fully understand the material.

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