Reading Problems & Sounds

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Ann Kennedy on behalf of Expert Village and we'll be looking at correcting common reading problems in children. The second common problem we're going to be looking at is how young readers will sound out words and pay no attention at all to what the word means. As they're still learning phonemic awareness, their sounds may be quick different than what the word means. So how do we help guide them? Well the first thing that we say to them is look at the picture. For example, even in The 3 Little Pigs, look at the picture, they maybe calling this and saying, two-skip it-pigs. Let's look at the picture; 1, 2, 3. Three Little, let's sound it out, Pigs. So if you see them sounding out words but they're not paying attention to what the meaning is behind the words, they're not making that connection of the pictures and the words connect, then have them look at the picture and almost picture read it. Look at the picture and ask them too, because a lot of times by the time they start reading, they've heard this book maybe 10 times and a lot of times they pretend read and they're not really reading the words. Tell them to look at the picture and ask them what happened in the story at this point? Now let's read it to find out. What happened in the story? Again, the first little pig builds a house out of...it's not that the children are trying to fool you, they've memorized the book because they love it but you have to check. It's a checkpoint, are they just making up words or sounding out words because they know the pictures. Stop them, look at text and pictures together."