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Interactive Reading

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Date Posted: 04:42:34 02/18/12 Sat

It would be advisable to let a dyslexic child have a good look at the book and feel the book literally with his hands, before you start reading it to him/her for the first time. By touching the book, he feels the size, the texture and even the colours and characters. You may find that they don't touch certain animals becuse they are 'bad' and even bend down to kiss certain characters becasue they are fond of them from their previous experience.

Letting children look at the pictures first on each page before you start reading that page will also stop the distraction from the words read.

By allowing children to feel and see the book first gives the child background knowledge/information about the book, characters etc. This background knowledge helps tremendously. Research has consistently shown that children and adults, for that matter, bring whatever bakground impressions they have to the text they read, and thereon interpret it in their way.

Hence, if a child sees and feels the pictures in new books before they read them, he/she would have gauged the book in his/her own way and have some impressions on what they are going to read.

In fact, it would be best to talk about the book first before you read it to him/her. You'd be surprised how children come up with stories from the picturews they see. For eg., if the child had said " The lion will kill the mouse, " you could say, "Lets see if the lion gets the mouse". This leaves something to look forward to thus creating an interest in the book.

Talking about the book before you read it with the child will enrich his/her understanding of the story read. You could discuss the characters to see what impressions they already have or ask them what they they think will happen. They will later see if their predictions have become true and also if the charaters are similar to their previous impressions.

In this way, the child interacts with the text and remmebers it far better than if you just read to him. Interactive reading should be encouraged right from day one. This method creates an interest in books because he/she will see that he is taking part in the understading process and that he is not just a passive partner listening to the reader. It also helps to keep the child very focused.

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