Love Reading: How to Help Your Child Improve Their Reading Skills.

By Anne K. Marfey

At the very core of a childs success is their ability to read at grade level, a skill that affects not only the childs learning, but also their self-esteem amongst their peers in class. Love Reading is a simple step-by-step guide for parents to help their child read better. Written in easy to read language, the book outlines a sequence of specific lessons geared to solving a variety of reading problems while providing insights and suggestions to help frustrated parents understand the underlying causes that may effect a childs ability to learn. As schools today rely more and more on parents to supplement daily lessons, Love Reading provides parents with the tools necessary to help improve their childs reading skills at home.

A lifelong educator specializing in remedial reading, Dr. Anne Marfey earned her PhD. in early childhood education. Her proven teaching techniques have helped children overcome reading challenges and build confidence in their own ability to succeed. Throughout her distinguished teaching career, Dr. Marfey has taught both children and adults as well as lectured for educational training programs on the topic of remedial reading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 4, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452053929

Anne K. Marfey

As an educator, Dr. Anne Marfey continues to teach and inspire her students as she has throughout her distinguished career. Specializing in early childhood education, she is also an authority in the areas of remedial reading and Danish language studies. Mrs. Marfey is a published author many times over and member of the Danish Writers’ Guild, having written books on early childhood education, tutorial guides to learning Danish and various small children’s books. Her poetry is archived in the national Library of Poetry and her work has been the subject of interviews by both Danish and American newspapers. Anne Marfey’s influence as an innovator in her local community as well as internationally allows her to bring a global perspective to all her endeavors. She is the founder of several cultural organizations and has initiated commemorative events locally, enriching the community with her unique multi-cultural approach. At the core of Dr. Marfey’s work is her goal of bringing about peace, non-violence and acceptance through understanding, and outreach across borders. Among her publications are the following books: 'The Road to Faster Reading' 'Read Better' 'Learning to Write' 'Shake Hands, Touch Hearts'

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Foreword

It is my hope that many parents may get some ideas they can use when they help their child with reading at home.

Having taught reading for many years at a Reading Institute as a certified reading specialist, I know that the ‘Love Reading’ method of teaching described in this book can be effective. It is much easier to help your own child, if you know how.

This book provides many different exercises you can let your child do together with you, until he reads well.

It is not unique to have a reading problem. Most children need their parents’ guidance at some time or another during their school years.

It is a delight to be able to help, and it is wonderful for children to have parents who care enough to help.

The secret in all teaching is to make the student want to work and to work hard, but without any pressure, as if work is another game.

The more we learn, the more enriched our world becomes, whether it is poor or wealthy, because we have learned what counts in life and what to strive for.

That’s what we must give our children, to see life’s light.

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Introduction

All children in first and second grade need help in reading. They need their parents to sit down with them in the coziest corner at home and talk with them about what they learned in reading class that day.

When parents know what has been taught, they can spend a few minutes every day trying to reinforce the teacher’s lesson. It may be checking that the child knows the letter a, the consonants or vowels, or it may be reading just five lines, five minutes a day, five days a week. Repetition is necessary to learn. Remember that a child cannot be taught for a long period of time. A child gets tired. It’s just as good to work for five minutes as to drag the teaching out for fifteen minutes or an hour.

Encourage the child to feel the joy and thrill of the most rewarding feeling, that of mastering even the simplest lesson through practice.

Repetition is necessary so that material learned becomes part of the person. Repetition doesn’t need to be dull. It can be done in so many creative ways so that the child doesn’t recognize it as repetition.

Through repetition the child will discover that mastering a subject is fun. Mastery builds self-confidence and makes learning easier. You must help your child to feel, ‘I can do it,’ and that the reward is not a lollipop or other treat. The reward is the self-realization that ‘I can do it’ as well as anybody else. To learn is fun, and knowledge is empowering.

Chapter 1

Problems In First Grade

I am the only one, who cannot read in my class. I am in the worst reading group, a first grader said after four months in school. I guess I am dumb.

No doubt the child suffers a defeat every day, knowing that he is not catching up with his friends. The defeat is emphasized even more every time he has to read in the lowest reading group, where he hears more mistakes than correct reading. He doesn’t have a