Teaching my Son to Read

My son was not learning how to read. I even had him put into a special class so that he would learn to read. This was to no avail. It was increasing obvious that my son was not going to learn to read at school. We lived downtown Toronto, and the school he went to was considered a good one. His school was part of the Toronto School Board.

Looking online, it was suggested that I use limited vocabulary books. The US seems to produce a lot of these limited vocabulary books. I got several of these, but my son found the stories rather boring. In a toy store I came across some books from England. They had some very interesting stories and characters in them.

My son loved the stories. Another thing that my son loved about them was that I read one page and he read the next and so on. My side was the most complex and so the stories could be interesting. To start, his side was a big picture and few words. As we progressed with these books my son’s reading side go more complex with small pictures and more words.

From anything I have read, our kids are not learning how to read well. There have been stories that I have read complaining about the low literacy rates of students entering into Canadian colleges and universities.

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