| Teaching middle school reading is all about reading | | | | comprehension but I think most students just |
| comprehension. Nearly all students who have been | | | | seem to pick it up. If there is a problem they |
| taught to read using phonics can read very well. | | | | should just do more reading. Using the problem |
| But the problem arises when the students do not | | | | with reading is the TV or computer games. |
| understand what they are reading. They just do | | | | Now if you are teaching middle school reading and |
| not understand the meaning of the words or | | | | the students haven't mastered phonics you have |
| sentences. | | | | to start from the basics. And that is phonics. Most |
| Now the best thing you can do is buy your child a | | | | reading problems are phonics problems. |
| dictionary or find an easy one to use on the | | | | If you can somehow set up a buddy system with |
| internet. This way your children can look up the | | | | good readers teaching problem readers you will be |
| words they don't understand without you getting | | | | amazed at how fast the students will learn. That |
| involved. If your children ask you what a word | | | | is one of the many advantages of Montessori |
| means tell them to look it up in the dictionary. | | | | schools and the Montessori teaching method. |
| This way they get into the habit of using a | | | | If children in middle school have problems reading |
| dictionary and this simple act will save you a lot of | | | | they will get left behind and that is it so you have |
| frustration. | | | | to intervene. |
| There are a number of ways to teach reading | | | | |