Help!!!My friend cant read, how can I help him

Check out this website, Valder phonics. It has free lessons on how to teach reading. If the address is incorrect go to a search engine and type in Valder phonics and it should come up..

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/valderbooks/program.html

You can also check Reading Reflex out of the public library. This will help you teach him how to figure out the phonemic/orthographic code of reading. If you need more help, there are people here who can guide you. Good luck!

as it will explain a lot about the underlying skills that need to be developed in order to read. It also provides complete lesson plans to take someone through the program. This approach often “clicks” even when all others have failed, and it’s appropriate for adults and teens as well as younger children. It was the best $16 I ever spent on curriculum materials. The book is sold in most bookstores.

Mary

LIbraries are really into the literacy thing, since if people can’t read they’re out of business :) THey generally can refer people to tutors.

The Scottish Rite centers also do a lot of good work with people with dyslexia, in some areas, so it’s worth checking that angle too.

In my last town, the library would only list you as a tutor if you were a full-time teacher at a state public school. You could only teach in a public school if you bought into their system, which was at that time violently anti-phonics. So tutors recommended by that library would be the least effective possible. Try other resources suuch as the internet, adult education programs that really teach reading (Laubach literacy has a good reputation) and so on.

Try finding a Laubach literacy program — check the yellow pages under “Read” and “learn” and Literacy”. Be careful to find a program that teaches real reading skills, ie phonics or “sounding-out” words; unfortunately even some adult literacy programs have bought into the same ineffective methods that failed him in school. Laubach has a decent reputation.
As others have recommended, home help with something like the Reading Reflex book can be good too. If you do try to help at home, remember it takes time and work, and there will be fast days and slow. Keep at it and you can succeed.

I use Reading Reflex in my classroom. I teach mostly EMH students who are in the 6-8 grades. I have a few nonreaders and some that can read 1-3 grade level. I had trouble figuring out how I would teach them until I received information aobut Reading Reflex through the mail. I figured I would try it and it really works!

Locate the Laubach Literacy website; it includes a toll-free number.

I took the Laubach Literacy training as a volunteer in NV (the toll-free number located the closest program for me) and have been volunteering happily as a tutor the last few years. The one-time $20 training fee for me entitles me to free continued refresher training,one-time group meetings with other volunteers to trade tips and techniques, the packet of training materials, and lets me check out/borrow books, workbooks, and other training materials from the Literacy Library. The one-time $20 student registration fee allows the student to borrow Laubach and supplementary textbooks and other materials. My newest student had his registration fee paid by his work company; his boss decided he had to learn to read better, and required the student to register with the local Laubach branch for tutoring.

Our local Laubach branch includesintroductory training in learning disabilities and strengths, and has some training materials for differerent learning disabilities for volunteer tutors to use as desired..

Since your best friend’s brother is (presumably) a native English speaker, he will possibly progress faster than Laubach beginning ESL/Literacy students, despite his LD.
But the other poster is right—it helps for both the student and volunteer to be patient, to remember that sometimes performance will plateau, that sometimes what was apparently learned and mastered will be forgotten, and that some supposedly simple things may have to be taught twenty times in several ways on more than five occasions before they begin to sink in.;
For instance, I’ve found that parallel reading —in which I slowly read a few words in natural breath grouping with the student echoing me—of a very short adult-centered reading passage such as a classified ad or paragraph from the driver’s training manual or portion of a magazine or newspaper or student dictated life/work experience story, etc., and then we slightly speed up and reread the same passage at least two or three more times, and then we underline and study and say and write one or more chosen words from the same passage—is worth the extra five or ten minutes extra tutoring time. (The preceding problems all are strongly and repeatedly evidenced by another of my Laubach students who after six months learned to read enough to fill out the application for his public library card; as he said yesterday at the library check-out counter, “It’s never too late to learn.”)
Okay. Off the bandwagon. Good luck and encouragement to your friend’s brother. If he is ashamed of not being able to read , he may be more comfortable being tutored in private by a stranger than by a friend, or he may be so determined to learn that it wouldn’t matter to him .

Addendum to previous: If your friend lives in a very small town or rural area and transportation is a problem, contact not only Laubach Literacy but also RSVP (retired senior volunteer program) and other possibilities like jr. college adult ed preGED dept., church volunteer groups, judicially-ordered community service programs, high school mandated commuity service hour coordinators, SHARE volunteers, etc. for further help on locating a trained volunteer one on one tutor for him if he himself wants one. Sometimes you have to piece together a plan, for example one volunteer to drive a nondriving tutor or student when there is no other transportation and walking/biking distance is too great, use of church or public library space (or even a KMart parking lot!), Lion’s Club or Soroptomist or other for eyeglasses, etc. Sometimes student and volunteer tutor are amazingly creative at resolving such problems.