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Bonding With Books

Creating a Parent/Child Book Club

By Gwen Morrison

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eSylvan, which offers live, Web-based reading and math instruction to students in grades three through nine, offers parents the following tips to help improve their child's reading skills:

  1. Read with your child every day. Reading with your child on a regular basis can help develop your child's reading comprehension, vocabulary and phonics skills. Reading together also can increase your child's interest in reading.

  2. Develop a family reading ritual. Establish a daily ritual in which the entire family reads together silently. Seeing you read will encourage your child to read. Even just 15 minutes a day can increase reading skills.

  3. Assess your child's reading skills. Teachers are not always able to detect a child's reading problems until they've become serious. An online skills assessment can act like an "academic X-ray" to highlight your child's strengths and weaknesses and help you identify gaps in your child's reading skills.

  4. For reading problems, get help immediately. Reading problems will not simply go away. However, the sooner your child receives help, the more likely he or she will become a good reader. Online tutoring can provide a simple solution by providing live, personalized tutoring in reading from state-certified teachers and all from the safety and convenience of home.

  5. Monitor your child's reading progress. An ongoing dialogue about your child's reading progress is important; a series of scheduled conferences with your child's tutor or teacher can provide specific feedback for you and your child.

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