02Oct2019

Title-How to make child read faster

Every parent has this concern at some point that their child should be able to read faster
so that can face the competition outside. In school students are bombarded with
textbooks to read, take notes and massive information to remember and recall. And it’s
sometimes too stressful for both parents and child.
Reading is skill which once acquired by a child will help in his further learning, its similar
to learn how to ride a bicycle. Once got that skill child can ride anytime anywhere and
will stay with him for rest of his life.
Every skill requires some techniques so it’s all about getting familiar with those
techniques. Well it depends on your level of commitment and whether you do have the
positive mental attitude to put to practice the technique until you reach a level of
unconscious competency.

As a parent how we can help our child to learn fast or help to develop those techniques
fast?
If we talk on this deeply then its brain game. Whenever we see any word it’s the eyes
who plays the first part and eyes are connected to our brain via optic nerve, information
is passed from eyes to brain and then gets processed, from there we recognize that
word.
Further the eye has a wide peripheral vision that allows it to capture information within
an arc of 170 degrees. This means that instead of looking at one word by one word, you
can actually see up to 4 words in a single glance by exercising your peripheral vision.
Therefore, if you want to read faster what you got to do is to try to get your eyes to
move across the words in double quick time. The most effective way for you to do this is
to use your fingers to glide along the words as you read.
When you are gliding your fingers along the page try to sync your eyes with the finger
movement and visualize the words that you are reading. Initially this may look
impossible and frustrating, but actually lots of things are happening in your brain when
you do this. One of it being that your brain is now trying as hard as possible to process
the information as quickly as you can.
So as a parent we can cultivate this habit in our child to use fingers while reading.
Initially will be difficult but slowly and gradually it can do wonders.
The earlier you get your child started in this simple and rewarding habit the longer the
benefit that you and your child will get.
Another thing we can make our child read something which he/she is interested in , like
for example my kid like to know more about cars and balls so I always try with the
reading materials which has interesting pictures of cars and balls and encourage him to
read more about that and even faster. In this way he will try to pick fast and his reading
capacity will increase. Even when we as a parent try to read in front of our kids , should
do it in a way that reading is very interesting activity , we are enjoying like the way we
used to make our kids eat the things which they always refuse to have. We try to eat in
front of them and make them realize that food is yummy… similarly we have to
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encourage our child and never we should make our child realize that he/she is not doing
well. At least they are trying with their best energy!

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Pauline Stone