
Roberto
Certified Tutor
Undergraduate Degree: Columbia University in the City of New York - Bachelors, History
Graduate Degree: Harvard University - Masters, Public Policy
Ethnic Restaurants, Film, Theatre, Acting, Writing, Producing, Reading History and Biographies
How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?
This would depend on the source of the challenge for the student. For example, if they cannot understand the sentence because they cannot pronounce what they are reading, I might break out words into syllables and help them pronounce that word. I might show them a similar sounding word with which they are more likely to be familiar. If they can pronounce a sentence, but still don't understand the sentence, then the problem have to do with the use of a vocabulary word in that sentence. So I might explore the root words within the word (or any Latin or Greek origins or the word, if that helps). I might compare the word with similar words (e.g. words with similar prefixes and suffixes).