Learning to Read - Cleveland,OH

Hi!
I just wondered if your son's vision has been checked? Maybe he's having problems seeing what's on the page and that's why he might lose concentration?

It sounds like your son has lots of energy, so maybe he could do some very physical activities right before sitting down to read for a while.

Try positive rewards too. Maybe let him play with a favorite toy or play a game with him if he can get through so many pages of the book, or take turns reading the pages.

Best wishes!

B.

As a Reading Specialist in a suburb of Cleveland, this is a common parent concern. Your son is only 6 and therefore his main educational goal needs to be knowing all letters, and their corresponding sounds. He may not be developmentally ready to blend his sounds just yet... no matter what anyone tells you, research supports that some children just need time to let their wiring finish connecting. If he can give sounds in isolation, then he is doing great for a Kinder kid!

Continue to read to him, and begin to echo read with him. This is when you read a sentence and he repeats... the worst thing you can do is push reading on him and frustrate him too much, causing him to shut down and see reading as a chore rather than the grand treasure it truly is!

Let him be a kid and trust that he sounds like he is right where he needs to be at this age!!

My first grader is 6 yr old and learning to read. I remember my son was just doing the first sound of each words, may be the ending sounds only at the first two semester in school.

Have you tried any of the LeapFrog products?