some word roots with my son. He is at the tale end of reading therapy and we are needing to review what he has learned. he really needs some more fluency help, more learning of roots suffixes and the such and comprehension is an issue also. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
lori :D
Re: WE are needing to work on fluency, comprehension and
If you want to start out with free, there are lots of materials for vocabularyl & fluency on my website (www.resourceroom.net ) - click on “reading comprehension.” (There are some good articles on fluency & the like under “Reading and spelling” in the articles section, too.)
If he’s in fourth grade or higher try Sopris West’s Rewards program—it has work on reading various vowel sounds, word parts (prefixes and suffixes but not roots), fluency—especially for multisyllable words, and some comprehension. This is a very easy to use program.
For Latin and Greek words, Vocabulary Vine is great and only costs $10. Critical Thinking also has Latin and Greek word root software that I’ve heard positive reviews for.
For comprehension, it depends on how deep his problems are. If it is due to visualization difficulties, you might want to look at Lindamood Bell’s Verbalization and Visualization or Ideachain, which is much easier for parents to use. In any case, look at the latter’s website. It will give a very good idea of what a visualization problem is. If visualization is a problem, you will need to start there. If not, try Joanne Carlisle’s Reasoning and Reading books. I think these are available from EPSbooks.