Newspaper Khebrat Wave2 Oakland 2018

Galileo Saudi Arabia Program Newspaper
Book reviewed by: Amal Bashiri
Do you have a child who is struggling
with reading? Are you interested in
helping students who have this
problem? Whether you are a teacher or a
parent, you have to start helping those
students with reading. So you need to
prepare a plan. The book of Kylene
Beers “ When Kids Can’t Read “ is
considered an enormous leap in the field
of teaching reading.
Though the book is large, the reader
can go across the book very smoothly
without reading each and every word.
The book is directed specifically to
teachers. It consists of 15 chapters and
ends with an amazing appendix. The
book is full of charts, photos, samples of
pupils` work, illustrations, and the most
attractive part is the “ step inside
classroom “. In this section, a real
situation from a classroom is vividly
presented in a beautiful way. Many
conversations between a teacher and a
student have been used effectively to
give solutions for many problems a
teacher or a student might face.
As a start, the writer concentrates on
identifying whom she called as
“struggling pupils”. The most apparent
feature of those pupils, along with lack
of confidence, is that they have
cognitive problems. For instance, they
can`t recognize the written forms of
words and so they can’t reach the level
of comprehension, which is needed as it
is one of the most important goals of
reading. As they suffer, they have a
negative attitude towards reading thus,
they lack enjoyment.
As you go over “Kids Can’t Read”,
you will discover many details and
examples so as a teacher you can
concentrate on the teaching strategies to
help pupils deal with what they read
effectively.
The writer wants to transfer pupils from
dependent readers to independent
readers. Choosing the appropriate
strategy for pupils is not enough. It is
very important to model the strategy
before pupils can start using it. As you
start teaching word recognition start
with high frequency words, phonics,
spelling and syllables. Then you can
work with comprehension by making
them look over the text, find pronoun
references, visualize, ask
questions, predict, infer, or express their
feelings or opinion about what they have
read. There are many strategies and
ways a teacher can use to develop
independent readers who enjoy reading.
To sum up, the first step a teacher
should start with is raising students`
confidence, involve them and make
them enjoy reading. There are varieties
of strategies to develop reading, but the
most important thing is to keep on
reading and have students challenge
themselves. This way, they will become
fluent and dependent readers.
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