One of my favorite methods of teaching a student to read is often referred to as the Clozure technique. It’s easy to do and provides a good and fun bonding time. It can be done by either snuggling up close to your child and sharing the same book or by each person having their own book.
The basic idea is that the smoother reader reads and stops every now and then, determined by the students reading level, patience, and eagerness to take over (which does happen), the child then fills in the word or words from where the primary reader stopped. If the student starts to struggle, then before frustration kicks in, the guiding reader takes it back over. The readers go back and forth like this for the remainder of the book.
What’s great about this technique is that a higher level book can be chosen (not too much higher) and the reader picks words the student is able to read when they stop. It builds both their confidence and their vocabulary.
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