Review : How to analyze and improve your child's reading skills by Liz Cooper

How to Analyze and improve your child's reading skills

By Liz Cooper

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My Rating 4.5/5

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Synopsis

How well does my child actually read? Am I doing all I can to support my child's reading at home? Parents wonder, but often can't answer these questions. In this innovative look at reading, Liz will show you how certain reading skills are connected , how to assess your own child, and what to do with the information you discover. She provides you with scripts, testing passages, graphs, charts, and other tools to help you and your child reach a better routine for reading that will lead to improvement. Not every strategy outlined in this book will be necessary for every reader, but adults may be surprised at how much they can learn about their children’s word recognition, comprehension, and reading habits, by analyzing the results of a few simple informal tests. Liz's conversational style and plain language is easy to follow. Talented artist, Maria Santucci, adds to the fun by adding amusing and heartfelt sketches of kids and their parents. Reading this book will allow parents to become better informed about the essential areas of reading - fluency, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, and phonemic awareness. This information is invaluable when speaking to classroom teachers and school teams. Liz believes that reading together with your child is a priceless gift you can give your child. Doing it effectively, with an end-result of improvement is even better!

My Thoughts

Reading is a vital skill considered mandatory for improving knowledge and enhancing wisdom. However, like other skills, the skill of reading can also be improved and honed to maximize the benefits. The book, ‘How to Analyze and improve your child's reading skills’ provides your child various techniques on how to analyze and improve your child's reading and also discusses different aspects in detail. This book received positive responses from its readers. It has been recommended by several readers.

The focus of this book is on the essential features of reading that includes effects of retention, basics of reading speed, concentration skills, enhancing word vocabulary, improving efficiency and author provides you with scripts, testing passages, graphs, charts, and other tools to help you and your child reach a better routine for reading that will lead to improvement.  

Author tries to answer pressing questions like how to get more out of each book your child reads. how to retain more of what we read, how to glance at a page and absorb the main ideas, how to improve the reading speed, how to build reading vocabulary and increase the powers of concentration.

The book focuses on every single and important aspect of reading and provide various ways through which we can improve our child's reading skills. Effective reading deals with interpreting words without wasting much time and making connections as quickly as possible.

One of the best books available in market to help and improve your child's reading ability, the exercises and assessments given in the book are very good and interesting to enhance your child's reading skills to a very good level, concepts given are based on psychological researches and the best part is Maria Santucci's sketches adds the fun for kids and their parents.

Highly Recommended for your child and for everyone who wants to improve his reading skills.