Reading Comprehension Intervention: Book 9

This Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers: Book 9 provides an easy-read story, helping the pupil to begin to carry meaning from page to page and a multi-chapter informational text about boats, plus a poem.

This book is the ninth in a series of books written to provide intervention for struggling readers using decodable reading books, written to build confidence and help the child attain fluency and comprehension.

This book is useful for reading intervention for older pupils, maybe even of 11+ who are struggling to read fluently, but who have a smattering of phonic knowledge but with gaps.

It builds on the vocabulary of the books that have gone before, giving the child a familiar base on which to build.

It follows:

Book 1 CVC Words

Book 2 Consonant Blends Words

Book 3 More Consonant Blends Words

Book 4 CK word

Book 5 OO Words

Book 6 Revise CK and OO with added extra basic vocabulary

Book 7 Split digraphs, AI, EA and OA

Book 8 A chapter story

Who is this book for?

Older pupils who can read, but who have a reading age well below their chronological age. Such children may struggle to read simple text with accuracy/fluency and thereby lack comprehension.

It is not for pupils who are just beginning to read with phonics. Please see my Graded reading books for such pupils.

It is convenient enough for parents to use with their children, as well as for use by teachers and private tutors.

Outline and steps

Having secured a child's blending skills with three and four sounds in books 1 to 3, and practised CK and OO words, we now start to extend the child's ability to decode new words with either one, two or three syllables.

Assess the whole time as the child reads: if the child stumbles on a word, make a note to revise that phonic sound before continuing to the next book.

I find that often these children need help distinguishing between similar words, such as back and black, and by retraining the child to read accurately using these simple texts - that do not look babyish - and then rebuilding from the bottom up, much progress can be made.

I thought that my pupils would look with disdain at these books. I found the opposite; they were so relieved that at last somebody had actually given them a book they could read!

Simply print on A4 paper, two on a page. Cut into individual A5 pages, and staple or bind them together to make a book.

Purpose

These books have been written and tried and tested on some of my older pupils (mainly boys I admit), and they have proved very helpful. Most of my pupils have a dyslexic type problem, involving poor processing skills and have had years of failure. They must build a secure foundation for reading ability to build upon. These books, used as described, will help to build that foundation.

I am finding an increasing number of such pupils desperate for help. You can help, too! It is not hard; you just need to understand the problem a little.

What is included?

1 pdf with 20 pages: 1 story, 1 multi-chapter informational book and 1 poem