How to Help Your Child Become a Better Reader
A Quick Start Guide to Reading Conferences
This article is the first in a series designed to help parents help their children improve their reading skills without educational jargon.
A Reading Conference is a technique used in schools to help students improve their reading skills. This technique works to support school-based or home-based education. If the parent can read the parent can teach a child to read, specific knowledge or training is not necessary.
There are three requirements:
- A child
- A book
- An adult
To help you think about the process here is a quick analogy. Teaching reading and teaching driving. Typically the adult teaching driving had no special training. If you can drive a car you can teach driving. If you were taught to drive at some point the following three requirements were met:
- A young person, (you)
- A car
- An adult
The Driving Lesson
The typical driving lesson takes place on a quiet stretch of road, an empty parking lot, or a field depending on where you live. The car is sometimes an older model that the young person is familiar with. The…
