Reading Rules 301-22 group

Reading Rules
301-22 group
Prepaired by Sobirjon Yusupov
At Easyread, we have helped thousands of children learn to read confidently and accurately. The secret to our success lies in our seven golden rules. We find that if you follow these golden rules closely, your child can go from reading struggles to reading success in no time.

1. Keep reading lessons short and regular

Limit daily reading lessons to just 15 minutes in order keep reading time fun and enjoyable – both for you and your child. Short lessons also maximize a child’s limited attention span.
The secret to making these short lessons work is to keep them regular, ideally every day. When we sleep, our brains help consolidate and organize the information we learned the day before. This is called sleep dependent learning. By keeping lessons short and regular, you can tap into the power of your child’s sleeping mind.
When reading is a struggle, daily reading lessons can quickly become a source of frustration and stress. Believe it or not, all that tension can make it hard for your child to learn to read. If you only correct your child’s mistakes, overtime he or she might learn to associate the sound of your voice with stress. And that’s the last thing you want!
The best way to end the frustration is with lots of praise. By constantly supporting your child with genuine and positive affirmation, you can put an end to the nightly battle and build your child’s reading confidence. How much praise is enough? Your goal should be to offer 5 bits of praise for every one bit of correction. We call this the “Rule of 5”. Pepper daily reading lessons with phrases like “yes, that is it, good”,“well done”, “Yes!”, and “Good work”, and your child will be well on his or her way to big reading progress.
But really, when we do a lesson with a child we are saying something positive every 4-5 seconds. It is constant.

Focus on decoding practice

When it comes to reading, the best readers are also the best decoders. In literacy education, decoding is defined as ability to connect letter strings in words with the sounds, or phonemes, they represent. If you can’t decode, you can’t sound out words. If you can’t sound out words, it’s easy to get stuck and make mistakes.
Believe it or not, this single skill has the biggest impact on your child’s future success as a reader. That’s why reading lessons should focus on helping your child to develop his or her skills as a decoder.
So it is important that each child on Easyread comes to view it as a decoding gym, where they are building their decoding muscles! The more they decode, even with familiar words, the quicker that will happen.