Off topic: reading program

[Guest guest]

We are looking for a good reading program for our son. Would anyone

be willing to share the name of a program that you are finding

effective? Is there a program out there that is highly effective

with kids with autism? Our son learns sight words fairly easily, but

we need something structured that addresses comprehsnsion as well.

Thanks,

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 4/24/2004 8:39:06 PM Central Standard Time,

cewlslgr@... writes:

We are looking for a good reading program for our son. Would anyone

be willing to share the name of a program that you are finding

effective?

What level is he at in reading? We're using the Reading Detective Series and

I think it's wonderful for building comprehension and higher order thinking

skills. The child needs to be able to read at least at a 3-4th grade level and

participate in discussions.

Click here: Reading Detective®

The company also puts out other books to build conceptual and higher order

thinking as well as a Science Detective series that works on comprehension using

science.

For early readers, McGraw Hill has some really good workbooks divided by

specific comprehension skill that you can find at most teacher's supply stores.

mood-Bell's Visualizing & Verbalizing curriculum was also somewhat

helpful though we had to revise it quite a bit. They also have a program for

decoding. Don't bother with their computer " games " -- total waste of money --

but their curriculum books are helpful.

Click here: mood-Bell Learning Processes Programs

Early on, we also did a lot of writing out instructions for my son to follow.

As he got better at reading and following simple directions, we wrote them

up as a paragraph. That, along with us writing stories together and then

discussing them helped him understand that what he was reading was supposed to

all go together and mean something.

Gaylen

[Guest guest]

Thanks Gaylen. I will invesitgate each of those. He is reading at a

primer level. Big sight reader, but doesn't have any

skills/strategies for what to do when he comes to an unknown word.

And then there is of course the comprehension. He does a lot of word

calling and not a lot of comprehending.

> In a message dated 4/24/2004 8:39:06 PM Central Standard Time,

> cewlslgr@m... writes:

> We are looking for a good reading program for our son. Would

anyone

> be willing to share the name of a program that you are finding

> effective?

>

>

> What level is he at in reading? We're using the Reading Detective

Series and

> I think it's wonderful for building comprehension and higher order

thinking

> skills. The child needs to be able to read at least at a 3-4th

grade level and participate in discussions.

>

> Click here: Reading Detective®

>

> The company also puts out other books to build conceptual and

higher order

> thinking as well as a Science Detective series that works on

comprehension using

> science.

>

> For early readers, McGraw Hill has some really good workbooks

divided by

> specific comprehension skill that you can find at most teacher's

supply stores.

>

> mood-Bell's Visualizing & Verbalizing curriculum was also

somewhat

> helpful though we had to revise it quite a bit. They also have a

program for

> decoding. Don't bother with their computer " games " -- total waste

of money -- but their curriculum books are helpful.

>

> Click here: mood-Bell Learning Processes Programs

>

> Early on, we also did a lot of writing out instructions for my son

to follow.

> As he got better at reading and following simple directions, we

wrote them

> up as a paragraph. That, along with us writing stories together

and then

> discussing them helped him understand that what he was reading was

supposed to all go together and mean something.

> Gaylen

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

<<He is reading at a primer level. Big sight reader, but doesn't have any

>

> skills/strategies for what to do when he comes to an unknown word.

> And then there is of course the comprehension. He does a lot of word

> calling and not a lot of comprehending. >>

Written directions would probably help him at this stage. First come up with

fun, simple things he can do written as a list starting with one and working

up to as many as he can do. At first he can read as he does them, then

gradually get him to be able to remember what he's read and do them altogether.

Later, write a variety of connected directions (yet different enough that he'll

have to remember each of them individually) in paragraph form, ie: Go to the

closet, get a blue book, open it to page 4 and then put the book on your head.

Making up some stories to write together about things he knows about or is

interested in may also help him make the connection that words have meaning.

Gaylen