COVID-19: Free Parents Tips for Kids at Home: Fun, Easy Parent-Friendly Reading Comprehension Activities You Can Do When Schools and Tutoring Centers Are Closed Due to the Coronavirus
Fun At-Home Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary and Phonics Activities When Your Kids are Home due to COVID-19 School Closings
5 Parent-Friendly Tips from Ricki Linksman, Author and Accelerated Learning and Reading Expert, and Director, National Reading Diagnostics Institute, Naperville Turoing Center, for Helping Parents Improve Your Child’s Reading and Learning Quickly through Learning Styles
Are you as a parent looking for fun reading activities you can do at home with your child when schools are closed due to the coronavirus? Are you wondering how to keep kids engaged in reading and learning while giving your kids stability while coronavirus has closed schools?
Spending a little time each day with fun reading activities at home can help your child K-12 keep up with reading and even get ahead.
You can have your child read something fun and enjoyable such as a novel or chapter book. Rotate that with reading from science, social studies, or books from the school reading list. This is a time when you can do phonics, word-reading, vocabulary, and comprehension activities. It is important that you do these in your child’s best and preferred learning style as that makes it easier and more fun.
What Are 5 Tips for the Best Reading Activities to Do with Your Child at Home During the Coronavirus School Closing?
The 5 Tips for the Best Reading Activities to Do with Your Child at Home During the Coronavirus are:
- Tip 1: Have your child read aloud to you 15 minutes a day from a book your child would enjoy.
- Tip 2: Pick out a new vocabulary word from the book for your child to learn how to spell, learn the meaning of, draw, and use in a sentence.
- Tip 3: After reading for 15 minutes ask the child comprehension questions, such as what was the passage, story, or selection about, who was it about, when and where did it take place, and other questions about what was read.
- Tip 4: Have the child do an activity with what was read like draw a picture, act it out, or write what the child thinks would happen next in the story.
- Tip 5: If you find the child misreads words or doesn’t know what the child has read, consider giving an at-home reading diagnostic test to find out what his or her gaps are so you can work on improving.
This is a great time to make sure your child’s skills in phonics or word-reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, study and test-taking skills are sharpened to keep up with their age and grade level and you can boost them to get ahead when they return to school!
The secret to making it fun is to selecting activities in your child’s best and fastest learning style. Why? We all learn differently. Some of us are visual learners, some auditory, others tactile, and some kinesthetic. Some of us preferred left-brain activities and others, right-brain. By knowing your child’s fastest learning style, you can adapt any activity to that strategy, and it will be fun for the child because it is easy, natural, and automatic.
For over 35 years, Ricki Linksman has been sharing with parents and teachers an entire -pre-K, K-12 reading curriculum in all areas of reading with a strand for each of the 8 Superlinks styles. Schools and parents who have used these techniques have taken entire schools from 2/3 below state standards in reading to 2/3 meeting and exceeding. Students who were failing or reading below level have skyrocketed on average of two to five years above their age in months and less than a school year. This is a great time to use the parent activities developed to help your child boost their skills while having fun during the times schools are closed due to the coronavirus.
Here are more specific directions or instructions for reading at home with your child 15 minutes a day while school are closed for the coronavirus: To get you started now, here is the most important tip you can do. Ricki Linksman has many parent resources available already and will be working on ways to get you many more easy-to-use fun activities in the coming weeks.
Parent Directions for Tip #1 for reading at home when school is closed: Reading 15 minutes a day can boost reading skills. But that should be “monitored” reading, so the child is doing so accurately. Whatever we practice becomes a pattern in the brain. If the child is making mistakes in word reading or not comprehending properly, those 15 minutes are reinforcing a bad habit. It is important that you listen to your child, of any age, read aloud to you, so any mistakes in word-reading or phonics, or misreading big words can be corrected. Asking your child or teen to tell you what he or she just read. This can reinforce memory and comprehension. Simply reading words without comprehending is not really reading.
For 26 years through National Reading Diagnostics Institute, we have been training parents in easy, enjoyable activities they can do at home to help their child improve in reading and learning.
If you are looking for fun and simple activities, tips, and strategies that boost your child’s reading comprehension, vocabulary, and phonics skills at home, here are some resources. They include activities in all learning styles including kinesthetic, tactile, visual, and auditory. The kinesthetic and tactile activities can also be done by all children and teens as they involve physical and hands-on activities and games. The books below contain movement and creative activities that will be fun and engaging as they learn and are available from www.readinginstruction.com.
- How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly by Knowing Your Personal Reading Comprehension Style: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Comprehension through the Brain’s Fastest Superlinks Learning Style (Contains reading comprehension activities for all learning styles K-12))
- Solving Your Child’s Reading Problems through Learning Styles (contains phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension reading strategies, activities, and tips) (K-12)
- From ADHD to A’s: How to Improve Reading, Memory, and Learning Quickly for Kinesthetic Learners (contains fun, engaging movement and game activities to improve reading, memory, and learning. Created for kinesthetic learners, it can also be fun for those who are visual, auditory, and tactile who like game-like activities grades K-12.)
- Kinesthetic Vocabulary Activities Your Child Will Love: In Just 27 Days Improve Your Kinesthetic Child’s Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension (grades K-12)
- The Fine Line between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learners: 197 Kinesthetic Activities to Quickly Improve Reading, Memory, and Learning in Just 10 Weeks (grades K-12)
To order books with fun reading activities to do at home, go to www.readinginstruction.com.
Special Deep Discount for Parents Whose Children are Out of School or Tutoring Centers Due to the Coronavirus
To assist parents at this difficult time with children out of school, we are offering our award-winning at-home reading program K-12 with reading assessments, learning style assessments and an entire K-12 reading program with simple, fun activities in all learning styles: kinesthetic, tactile, visual, and auditory for right and left-brain learners. Used by parents, tutoring centers, and schools worldwide, it can provide valuable at-home quality time with your child that improves their reading skills.
Normally $297.00 per child, we are offering the entire on-line program of over 2000 lesson plans and activities for the next 2 months while school is out, for only $49.00 per child (pre-K, K-12, and college). For this discount, send an email to info@keyslearning.com stating the grade of your child so we can get you the program at this discounted rate.
Want to find out how your child learns the best? With extra time at home, you can even give your child a simple diagnostic reading test (K-12) to find out if there are any gaps in reading? With an online instant diagnostic report and prescriptive plan the assessment generates, it contains thousands of pages of activities in phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, study and test-taking skills, and memory improvement that will help boost your child’s reading comprehension and grades. Go to: www.keystoreadingsuccess.com
For more information, visit: www.readinginstruction.com and www.keystoreadingsuccess.com.
Contact: info@keyslearning.com
National Reading Diagnostics Institute, 1755 Park St., Ste. 200, Naperville, IL 60563.
(630) 717-4221
Ricki Linksman is the founder-director and author of many books for parents and teachers on reading and accelerated learning, including How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, Test-taking Skills and Learning through Your Brain’s Fastest Superlinks Learning Style.
About our Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles in Naperville, Illinois: National Reading Diagnostics Institute (Our Live Center before and after the School Closings due to the Coronavirus): (Due to the shelter-at-home and social distancing and isolation, we are postponing our in-person reading tutoring and switching instead to offering parents at-home parent-friendly, fun and easy reading activities, books, materials, online parent-friendly programs, and courses to do at home with kids while school is closed due to the coronavirus until this health crises ends.)
At our Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles in Naperville, we improve reading by starting with our nationally recognized Reading Diagnostic Test and Learning Style Assessment to diagnose your child’s reading problem and learning style. With that diagnosis, we create an individualized prescriptive plan so our reading specialists and teachers can provide one-on-one personalized caring reading tutoring to quickly improve your child’s or teen’s reading.
If you’re a frustrated parent who wants to find out why your child is struggling and wants him or her to quickly learn to read or improve reading, learning, grades, or test scores, you have come to the right place!
We have dramatically improved reading for all students, including gifted, regular Ed, special Ed, ADHD, and English Language Learners (elementary school, middle school, and high school K-12.
We offer an entire reading improvement program for each learning style (visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic and brain styles (left- and right-brain preference learners).
We are one of the few reading tutoring centers in the country, specializing in kinesthetic learners! Our teacher training center has trained teachers from all over the world in these kinesthetic methods due to their proven results. Whether you are a parent or a teacher, you too can discover the fine line between ADHD and kinesthetic learners.
Ricki Linksman’s ground-breaking work in kinesthetic learning applied to reading has resulted in her creating an entire K-12 reading curriculum for kinesthetic learners. Used in school districts and schools through the United States and around the world it has taken students in entire schools from 2/3 not meeting state reading standards to 2/3 meeting and exceeding in less than one school year.
Many students diagnosed with ADHD or thought to have ADHD because they had trouble concentrating and focusing in reading have experienced success with our Naperville tutoring center’s kinesthetic learning strategies. Through kinesthetic learning methods students have risen to the top of their class. Many rose from low scores to high scores in reading on the HSPT (High School Placement Test) and ACT and SAT college entrance exams winning scholarships and admission to colleges of their choice.
You know your child is bright, but you still cannot figure out why he or she is struggling in school with reading, comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, writing, memory, grades, test scores, study and test-taking, or learning any subject.
You may have already spent a great amount of time and money getting help either from a reading tutor, reading tutoring center, or the school, but see no improvements. In fact, with each passing year, your child’s grades, reading, and test scores are getting lower.
You are lost and helpless, and don’t know where to turn. If you’ve tried other places and interventions and have not yet seen results, we will end your frustration by diagnosing the cause so we can fix it in the shortest possible time with our nationally recognized reading diagnostic test and learning style assessment.
This diagnosis and prescriptive personalized reading plan will help us provide reading tutoring through your child’s unique learning style. Through this plan, we can improve reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, and fluency in the shortest possible time.
We can also help your elementary school child in pre-school, kindergarten, grade 1, grade, 2, or grade 3 quickly learn to read to become a great reader. We help grades 4-12 improve in reading skills including reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading tests.
You can finally breathe a sigh of relief as you have come to the right place.
Our Naperville reading tutoring center through Learning Styles and reading diagnostic and learning style assessment are designed to improve your child’s reading comprehension, phonics, grades, and/or test-taking quickly. It begins with an in-depth reading diagnostic test and learning style and brain style assessment to find your child’s reading problem and best and fastest learning style and brain style.
We then offer individualized, personalized, caring one-on-one reading tutoring in your child’s fastest learning style to get the most rapid results and end frustration.
Give your child the gift of confidence, motivation, self-esteem, and love of reading and learning today!
Here are some comments from happy parents:
“I have worked with National Reading Diagnostics Institute for a year now. I have seen amazing results for my son. Not only has his reading level improved dramatically, but his confidence and enthusiasm are through the roof. I recommend Ricki Linksman and National Reading Diagnostics Institute to anyone who wants to give their child an advantage” – Stefanie Synal
“My son has only been with Ricki Linksman a short time, but already we have seen improved results in his SRA tests and overall academics. In fact, he made the honor roll!! I appreciate the fact she is able to see how he best comprehends his reading material and incorporates the best plan for him. She has a wonderful disposition working with students and she is able to communicate and convey her teaching in a concise and effective way. We are very happy to see his overall comprehension improve and especially his confidence. Thank you!” -Liz Zurek
“I believe no child should experience the frustration, low self-esteem, and lack of confidence that comes with school failure. Our commitment is to help every child or teen soar from failure to success immediately, without spending one more day in a state of helplessness. That is what makes us different from all other tutoring centers to which you may have gone already-our goal is to solve the problem and fix it in the shortest time-not prolong the time our child needs help. We turn your child into an independent learner so he or she will succeed without tutoring help any more for years to come.” -Ricki Linksman, Author, Founder-Director
We save parents the time and money you might have normally spent on getting help to improve reading comprehension and phonics, because our goal is to fix the reading problem in the shortest time.
Nothing gives us greater joy than to see the pain on the face of a frustrated parent and child turn into the smiles of success, even in the first session.
Studies have shown that our award-winning reading strategies and techniques have taken entire schools (elementary, middle, and high shool K-12) from 88-99% of all students raising their reading levels from an average of two to five grade levels above their age in 8 months or less.
At our National Reading Diagnostics Institute parent-child reading tutoring center, we have seen those results often within a few months. We have taken schools where 2/3 of the students were not meeting state standards in reading to 2/3 meeting and exceeding within less than one school year. This includes all students-regular ed, gifted, special ed, ADHD or ADD, Title 1, Dyslexia, or Remedial Reading, or ELL, ESL., English as a Second Language, or Bilingual.
Nat’t Reading Diagnostics Institute was founded in 1993 by founder-director, author, and nationally recognized accelerated learning and reading expert, Ricki Linksman, author of: How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, Test-taking Skills, and Solving Your Child’s Reading Problems; Fine Line between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learners; From ADHD to A’s; and How to Improve Memory Quickly.
Ricki Linksman’s learning methods and reading strategies were developed to quickly teach reading comprehension and phonics (pre-K, K-12, and adult) through learning styles and brain styles. The Naperville Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles and Reading Diagnostic and Learning Style Testing helps solve your child’s reading comprehension or phonics problems quickly.
For 26 years, National Reading Diagnostics Institute has been providing reading tutoring to students in the Naperville area and surrounding western suburbs and Chicagoland area to rapidly raise reading comprehension, grades, and test scores.
The award-winning program has been used by school districts and schools throughout Illinois, around the country, and throughout the world. Studies prove that it has raised 88-99% of all students (including gifted, regular Ed, special Ed, ADHD, and English as a second language) from 2-5 grades above their age in months. Our Naperville reading tutoring center helps pre-school, kindergarten, and grades 1, grades 2, and grades 3 learn to read in the shortest time to read at the top of their class or above their grade level. We offer the fastest learn to read program for elementary school students available.
End your frustration and watch your child’s test scores and grades improve to soar to success. E-mail or call to find out how to solve your child’s reading problems by using his or her fastest learning style starting today: (630) 717-4221 email: info@keyslearning.com
How can you help improve your child’s reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, low grades, test scores, note taking, study and test-taking skills, memory, concentration, focus, or learning problems?
You can help improve your child’s reading comprehension, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, low grades, test scores, note taking, study and test-taking skills, memory, concentration, focus, or learning problems in 3 easy steps at our Naperville Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles:
Step 1: Diagnose the cause of the reading comprehension, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, low grades and test scores, note taking, study and test-taking skills, and memory, concentration, focus, or learning problems through a reading diagnostic test.
Step 2: Give a learning style and brain style assessment to find the child’s or teen’s fastest and best way of learning (for example: kinesthetic, tactile, visual, and auditory, or a combination; and whether a right-brain or left-brain preference. This learning style and brain style assessment will help fix the reading gaps in the shortest possible time.
Step 3: Fix the reading problems you diagnosed by reading tutoring, coaching, and teaching the needed reading skills (comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, study skills, and test-taking) through the brain’s fastest learning and brain style.
Starting today you can raise your child’s grades, test scores, and reading levels, while building self-esteem, confidence, motivation, and focus. Don’t let you or your child suffer one more day in the cycle of failure but turn it quickly into the confidence and joy of success.
Books by Ricki Linksman on Brain-based Strategies to Improve Reading, Learning, and Memory through Learning Styles and Brain Styles
Explore books to improve memory, reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, study skills and test-taking skills to raise self-esteem, confidence, motivation, and love of reading, written by Ricki Linksman at http://www.readinginstruction.com.
Don’t Go It Alone
We know what you’re going through because thousands of parents who have come to us in person or emailed us for help from all over the world have felt just like you did. When they discovered how we solved their child’s reading or learning problem and fixed it quickly they wished they had found us sooner. In fact, many wished they had known about us years before.
But it’s never too late to get instant help for your child.
Whether he or she is in elementary, middle, or high school, or even in college, we can diagnose why your child is having a problem with reading, content-area subjects, or test-taking, and fix it quickly.
Want to prepare your child for a college scholarship and save tuition? College prep starts in grades K, 1, 2 and 3. We help your child learn to read at or above age level quickly for a dramatic head start. We even prepare them for the ACT, SAT, High School Placement Tests (HSPT), or state and local reading tests (K-12) no matter what age—it’s never too late to prepare for these tests to help your child get into the college of their choice or even with a scholarship!
Call for instant help at our Naperville Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles in Naperville, Lisle, Wheaton, Warrenville, and western Chicago Suburbs: (630) 717-4221
“I believe no child should experience the frustration, low self-esteem, and lack of confidence that comes with school failure. Our commitment is to help every child or teen soar from failure to success immediately, without spending one more day in a state of helplessness. That is what makes us different from all other tutoring centers to which you may have gone already-our goal is to solve the problem and fix it in the shortest time-not prolong the time our child needs help. We turn your child into an independent learner so he or she will succeed without tutoring help any more for years to come.” –Ricki Linksman, Author and Founder-Director
We save parents time and money you might have normally spent on getting help, because our goal is to fix the problem in the shortest time. Nothing gives us greater joy than to see the pain on the face of a frustrated parent and child turn into the smiles of success, even in the first session.
Studies have shown that our award-winning techniques have taken entire schools (K-12) from 88-99% of all students raising their reading levels from two to five grade levels above their age in 8 months or less. At our National Reading Diagnostics Institute parent-child tutoring center, we have seen those results often within a few months. We have taken schools where 2/3 of the students were not meeting state standards in reading to 2/3 meeting and exceeding within less than one school year. This includes all students-regular ed, gifted, special ed, ADHD or ADD, Title 1, Dyslexia, or Remedial Reading, or ELL, ESL., English as a Second Language, or Bilingual.
What Makes National Reading Diagnostics Institute’s Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles Different from All Other Tutoring Centers:
What makes National Reading Diagnostics Institute different from other tutoring centers or hiring a local tutor untrained in teaching reading is that we use brain research to find your child’s own unique way of learning combined with a reading diagnosis. You know your child is struggling. You may even see your child’s reading test scores are lower than what you think they should be. But what no one tells you is why that is happening. We specialize in giving your child a reading diagnosis assessment and learning-style assessment to find the cause of his or her problem and give you a way to fix it in the shortest possible time.
Each tutoring/coaching lesson is targeted to fix whatever skills a child needs, whether in reading, reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, test-taking, note-taking, study skills, writing, spelling, or content-area subjects.
Lessons are taught in a way that matches your child’s best learning and brain style. Whether your child is visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic, whether left or right-brain learner, or a combination, we give you lifelong techniques your child can use now, or through his or her entire school career and in life.
Find your child’s unique and best way of learning today so he or she can learn any subject in the way he or she learns the best and fastest.
We offer services all year, with tutoring and coaching after school and during the summer. We offer flexible schedules to meet your family’s busy lives.
There is no contract to sign—you can start when you want and continue as you wish, with no long-term financial commitments on your part.
After reaching their goals with us, our students continue to use our methods to learn independently as top students for the rest of their lives.
Athletes use our Superlinks Sports accelerated learning methods to excel in their sport, maintain their academic grades, and improve scores on the ACT or SAT through their kinesthetic or other learning style. Ricki Linksman’s methods have even taken a university football team from never having a winning season to having their first winning season by using her Superlinks learning assessment and learning style and brain style strategies to learn the football playbook!
When LPGA Hall of Fame golf instructor, Kerry R. Graham read RIcki Linksman’s books and learning style and brain style methods, Kerry incorporated Ricki’s into her golf instruction. They co-wrote a book on how to learn and improve in golf through learning styles: The Power of Mental Golf: Improve Your Confidence and Consistency.
We also have a reading and learning program for kinesthetic and tactile learners, whether diagnosed or suspected of having ADHD or ADD, or who are kids who just learn best by moving!
Our award-winning proven methods are recognized throughout the world. Public and private schools throughout the United States and other countries have used the techniques taught by founder-director, Ricki Linksman, to take failing schools to superior schools to meet their state standards in reading within less than a school year.
Institutions such as Huntington Learning Centers, Kaplan On-line University, and private tutoring centers throughout the world have also licensed our learning materials.
Companies such as Lucent Technology, 3M, large financial institutions and tech companies, like Microsoft, besides many universities have used Ricki Linksman’s techniques for training, instruction, or increasing productivity by better communicating to customers, clients, trainees, or employees.
Paying it Forward through Charitable Work:
Through charitable work, Ricki Linksman has donated her program to many schools in need throughout the world. For every school in South Africa that uses her program, she donates to a school in need.
Former New York Jets football player, Jericho Cotchery and his wife selected Ricki Linksman’s reading program, called Keys to Reading Success and Superlinks to Accelerated Learning (with its learning style assessment) to use for his foundation’s charity to improve reading in schools in need in North Carolina.
When the Chicago Bulls started a reading initiative in the school near the United Center in Chicago, Ricki donated her Keys to Reading Success and Superlinks to Accelerated Learning program to the entire elementary school to help teachers help their students improve reading.
Resources for Parents and Teachers to Teach Reading through Learning Styles
Besides the live testing and tutoring/coaching at our Naperville Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles in Naperville, Illinois (western suburbs of Chicago) numerous resources are available for parents and teachers.
For those who cannot come to the Naperville Reading Tutoring Center, National Reading Diagnostics Institute headquarters, you can do it yourself from anywhere in the world with our many resources.
We offer books, ebooks, videos, digital products, and two world-renowned internet reading and learning software programs: Keys to Reading Success online reading program http://www.keystoreadingsuccess.com for parents and schools, and the Superlinks to Accelerated Learning http://www.superlinkslearning.comassessments for at-home or schools.
“I have known and worked with Ricki Linksman for over fifteen years. I still remember today what I heard Ricki say so many years ago; ‘Kids learn differently, their learning style is as unique as they are.’ Ricki explained her program which could be implemented quickly for children who were struggling in reading. As a teacher I had immediate help for a problem that frustrated me to no end. I used the program in my classroom and had success. Using lessons and materials that address different learning styles, Ricki’s methods take students who are struggling in the classroom and teaches them how to succeed. Whether you’re in a classroom setting as I was, or a parent who is trying to help their struggling child, Ricki’s methods work. As a teacher and a tutor, I have seen first-hand how students who first felt defeated because they learn differently, go from being D students to A or B students. Whether your child is just learning to read, or reads the words but is not comprehending, this program can help. As a classroom teacher and tutor who used the techniques from the National Reading Diagnostics Institute, I can honestly say a student who walked through the door on the first day with their head down was a far cry from the student who, after a period of instruction, left with their head held high, their confidence level boosted, and their reading/grades greatly improved. When you see the excitement of a child who can finally read and understand what he has read, as Master Card says, the feeling is priceless.” –Sharon Dye
Call today for an appointment to end your frustration so your child/teen can reach his/her maximum potential and raise self-esteem and motivation: (630)717-4221, or email: info@keyslearning.com; or visit our specialized websties: readinginstruction.com; keystoreadingsuccess.com; and superlinkslearning.com for our variety of resources for parents and teachers.
Contact Us
at our Naperville Reading Tutoring Center through Learning Styles
Email: info@keyslearning.com or
Call: 630-717-4221
National Reading Diagnostics Institute,
1755 Park St., Ste. 200, Naperville, Illinois 60563
Want to find out how to find the best reading tutor? Click here to read How to Find the Best Reading Tutor:
https://nationalreadingdiagnosticsinstitute.com/2020/02/11/how-to-find-the-best-reading-tutor/
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Other Websites with Ricki Linksman’s Methods to Improve Reading Comprehension and Memory through Learning Styles and Brain Styles:
To explore other sites by National Reading Diagnostics Institute founder-director, author: RIcki Linksman: Click below:
Readinginstruction.com
KeysToReadingSuccess.com
SuperlinksLearning.com
“I was hesitant at first but I knew my son needed the help. I am glad that I made the choice to work with Ricki Linksman. I have learned so much about how to help my son and about learning styles in general. I have to say that the frustration level when doing homework or reading has gone down dramatically. Ricki Linksman has an incredible amount of knowledge and experience and is extremely passionate about helping students. I highly recommend her and her institute, National Reading Diagnostics Institute.” –Maggie Hutchison
Ask the Reading Expert: Low Scores on State Reading Tests
Question: My son’s state reading test scores are low. When I listen to him read, he stumbles over many words. How can I find out what the problem is and what can I do to help him.
Answer: There are four main areas that could be causing his problem: phonics, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.
A reading diagnosis needs to be made to determine: a) whether he can sound out or decode the words at the level at which the text is; b) whether he understands the vocabulary words at that level; c)whether he comprehends what he reads; or d) whether he can read fast enough to complete the test in the given time.
I suggest that you select a book at his grade level and listen to him read to you. If he is struggling with many words, then a more thorough reading diagnosis needs to be made to determine which of the above four reasons are causing the problem. Once that is determined, then he can get help in the appropriate area.
Keys to Reading Success can help you do all of this at home with its easy-to-use, online reading diagnostic test.
Featured Book: How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, Test-Taking Skills, and Learning through the Brain’s Fastest Superlinks Learning Style, by Ricki Linksman