This method helps keep the repetition needed to remember these words from becoming monotonous or artificial. Conclusion Like other important learning tasks, learning to read takes persistence and patience, and some children require more than others. Keep in mind that we want not only for children to learn reading skills, but also, at the same time, to develop the disposition to be readers. Excessive pressures may damage that disposition. Children who do not learn to read as early or as rapidly as their peers might be helped most by a caring parent's patient encouragement and frequent practice.
Children often benefit from review and repetitions of reading material they have mastered.
It may help them to build a sense of confidence in themselves as readers. Controversial issues relating to word perception. Continue to the next article. Return to the Parent News for November-December 1998 contents page. Return to the NPIN home page.