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How Bright Kids Often Fail at Reading and What You Can Do to Help

By: David Morgan

Failing to learn to read is a devasting blow to a young child, and it is usually quite unnecessary. The underlying reason why many bright children find reading hard is that the early reading books they use encourage the wrong techniques. The warning signs are easy to spot.

The good news is that it is easy to correct.

The Pattern of Failure

The children we help have often seemed to do well in the early stages of reading. The alphabet is not a big problem for them and the child has often learnt a few words quite easily.

But as the child starts to read books, you will see some guessing of words going on. And often the guess has no relation to the word on the page, but makes sense in the context.

Then the books get more complicated and the child's reading seems to go into reverse.

Eventually you get an implosion of confidence, usually around the age of 6 or 7. By this stage the child is very reluctant to read at all.

Without the right help, the child can get stuck in this state permanently, wrecking their entire education, even though we find it can usually be fixed in a matter of weeks.

The Underlying Issue

Most children find text very baffling initially. And so they will use whatever seems the easiest way to decode it. A child with a strong visual memory will use that strength to memorise words by sight. That will seem the easiest option.

Any child will almost certainly be being taught phonics in the classroom. But, in a whole class setting, it is easy to be quietly baffled, without the teacher really knowing or having the time to work through it one-on-one in any case.

Now the concept behind most early reading books actually encourages this memorisation approach. They use very few words which get repeated a lot.

But, unfortunately, the child's reading is not really progressing at all. And eventually you reach the end of the blind alley.

The child needs guidance out of this situation and onto the right path.

The Simple Fix

The key is to help the child get a memory hook on all the different phonemes being used in English. The Easyread Coaching System does this by presenting a bright and slightly bizarre image for each of them, with a simple rhyme to remember. This was developed from memory activation processes used by memory specialists.

Next, you must find a way to draw the child away from the memorisation and guessing approach to reading. In Easyread we do this with games designed to do that.

Once the child is redirected onto the right path, you need to make it easy to travel. Confidence is further built by steady reading practise. In Easyread we allow the child to read text unaided each day, by floating the images connected to each phoneme over the text. In that way, the child always has support when puzzling over a word.

The result of these changes of approach is that we regularly see children who have been completely stuck after years of effort, become enthusiastic readers in just a few weeks.

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