INCREASING COMPREHENSION FOR READING TEXT ON SOCIAL MEDIA USING THE SOUNDS OF WORDS

Struggling readers desire to communicate with their friends on social media, read, and post messages about their interests. The Sounds of Words strategy is helpful here since it is a universal word, explicit teaching, concrete, multi-sensory, and applied phonics. The parent/ teacher can choose any portion of social media text of interest and teach the student to read, discuss, and respond to it.

Teach the student to decode and read any word(s) that the student needs to know to read the text. Use the same strategy to teach the student how to spell and write words correctly so that the student can respond with her/his own idea(s) about the subject. The student is improving comprehension of written text and writing text while engaging in the social media that he/she enjoys!

Additionally, the student is adding to the words for reading, spelling, and writing stored in the comprehension/memory area of the brain!