ree correlations: reading rate, accuracy,
and prosody. There are a variety of reading materials such as textbooks, comic
strips, fiction, and magazines, etc. that require different reading rates. A
young and budding reader will attempt to impress the parent by reading too fast.
It is necessary to read with accuracy in order to comprehend the context of the
story. Children reading inaccurate words tend to move on without realizing the
error. It is up to the reader to make the printed words come to life by showing
intonation. Learning the skills of fluency will help the child achieve gratification.
There are about fifteen different activities to strengthen the child's fluency
Phonic rules are a critical component to laying the foundation for readers to
build on. After administrating the phonics test, the child's strengths and weaknesses
will be made apparent. If the test results indicate that the child needs to focus
on specific phonic rules; there are about sixty activities targeting six different
skills such as consonant blend, consonant digraph, vowel digraph, vowel diphthong,
R and L controlled vowels, and silent E. The activities are fun and very engaging.
The Struggling Reader offers a variety of assessments and tools for children
with emergent reading skills to eighth grade. There are activities that involve
a group of kids but with creativity, the parent can adapt the activity to one
child or involve the other siblings. I only used this with my struggling child.
My other children will benefit from the fluency activities. My struggling reader
enjoys the kinesthetic activities as we've adapted some of the games. We are
in the process of creating a sight word wall. Before tucking our son into bed,
we would pull out the little laser and play "laser word tag." One of us would
call out a word and we would point our lasers onto the word before the other
person does. By playing this game, we are having a blast laughing as the sight
words are being cemented into his brain without him realizing it. I am very blessed
by this program as it empowers me as a home school teacher/mother to target the
weaknesses but also recognize the strengths of my struggling reader.
The Struggling Reader bundle is extremely expensive, priced at $600. I acknowledge
that the program bundle could be used with all five children; however, we are
a single income family with only one child demonstrating the need for this program.
There are opportunities to buy each assessment individually, but I feel that
having all of the assessments gives me an insightful understanding of my son's
struggles. I appreciate knowing the immediate results of the assessments and
grasp HOW to help my child overcome the obstacles on his path to becoming a fluent