Teaching Reading To A 3rd Grader?
I tutor a third-grade boy in reading once a week. I have no idea how to even really help him, since he gets frustrated within 30 seconds, and can’t read sentences like “The mouse ran into the barn.” It seemed like he just started making up sentences he thought should come next after the ones I helped him with. I kept trying to help him figure out how to phonetically sound out words, but he wouldn’t even try or pay attention. Basically, he can barely read (or can’t at all sometimes) what I read in kindergarten.
Does anyone have any ideas that would help him learn how to sound out words, recognize some words (such as “like”, “and”), or anything like a little game that would help him and keep him interested?
Thanks!
Any games you can play with him to help develop his sight vocabulary will help. A simple matching game like Memory only with word cards is always fun. Perhaps you could help him write his own story about a mouse. He should be able and perhaps more willing to read something that is in his own words. Keep drilling him on the basic sight words…play timed games or only work on 5-10 words at a time. Throw in ones he doesn’t know with the ones he is sure of. That will give him some success along the way. But, by all means don’t give up. It all just takes a lot of time and patience.
It all takes time. Don’t frustrate yourself because there are no improvements. Tutoring is demanding, but rewarding.
Why hasn’t his teachers helped him to read? Getting by all this time without knowing how to read. This is the teachers JOB!!
Is he getting special ed help from his school? He needs to be.