Hi,
I got a lot of support on my son’s reading.
From all the suggestions, I am thinking of hiring tutor who can help me 3 times a week, each time is about 1 hour and 20 mins.
For the reading comprehension, I check some of the materials suggested here, I would like to see if I can find the workbooks series, which can list out the vacabularies then go into story then the questions related to main idea, reasoning, inference, etc…
My son reading comprehension level is identified as early reading about grade 1.3, and he is in 3rd grade now. He is SLI.
Someone suggested Wordly Wise to me which did have the structure I like, but the stories are very dry to my son.
Have anyone used the materials from Liguisystems ? http://www.linguisystems.com/, they have Spotlight on Reading Comprehension 6-Book Set, what is your opinion on this ?
Any good suggestions on comprehension workbooks series along with vacab. ?
Thanks,
Shelley
I collect older basal reading series for exactly this purpose.
If he is at 1.3, I swear by the *old* Ladybird Key Words series for around grade levels K to 1.8. These have recently been reprinted and are available from penguin.uk (note the .uk, NOT .com). If you can get the workbooks too, they are very good. After around 1.8, I use any standard First Reader and the workbook that matches — used book stores, school book closets, amazon.com zshops are good sources.
All this should definitely be parallelled by a good phonics program.
Given a reading level of 1.3, you are not going to be doing much vocabulary development from reading for a while. Most of the words will be in his speaking vocabulary. However once you pass about level 2, you can start to teach new vocabulary from the reading. I work on vocabulary orally and with the workbooks, in a low-key but consistent and regular manner.