[senco-forum] reading too fast

Hi Janice

  I had a pupil once who told me that she had to 'acknowledge' what she was reading before she could understand it.  It was as if she could decode it easily but needed to tell her brain that she had to understand it before she could make herself think about meaning too.
  We tried several things
  reading aloud then 'reading aloud in your head'
  muttering under the breath
  running a pencil under the words as you read
  finding the end of the sentence then reading the whole sentence and stopping at the end before loking for the next sentence.

  In the end she seemed to crack it and coped well with GCSE.  

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

WrayJanice Wray <jwwray14 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  A lad in Yr 7 - has a statement - basically, he reads so fast - he loses meaning - barking at print almost - anyone any ideas for slowing him down ?Janice WraySecondary SENCO, Herts
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall