The speech therapist María Fernanda Lara, a doctor in Cognitive Science and Language and a teacher at the National University School of Medicine, gives parents some guidelines to know if they need to reinforce their children’s learning in any way.
Lack of understanding, poor memory, bad pronunciation of words, and continue reading without stopping before a mistake, are some of the signs that would indicate that children are having difficulties with reading, the expert said.
Reading is a very sensitive process in the first years of a person’s life, so you must be very careful with the first approaches to learning.
In Colombia, children who are in the first or second year of primary school are learning to read. In first, the minor must be reading 40 words per minute, and in second, 60; from there, that number should go up 10 to 10 for each course.
“An adult in high school should be reading 250 words per minute, and a good reader can reach up to 400 words per minute. This means that reading speed is important, because the fact that I can read at a good pace means that it strengthens my working memory, which is what allows me to understand, ”says the teacher.
Reading is the process of extracting and constructing meanings online from a written text; it is a language-based skill, which shares many of the processes and knowledge involved with oral language, structural and proportional knowledge of words, attentional and memory limitations.
Despite its relationship with oral language, both reading and writing appeared a long time later and was used only by a small, highly selected minority, since its basic function was to remember, not to learn.
It is for this reason that the brain is not instinctively gifted to read, so, to learn, first of all there must be motivation and someone to instruct, because the way in which reading is taught will mark the taste or not for it.
Learning to read adequately requires good instruction based on motivation, linguistics, and literacy-rich environments. This, because there are reading methods that affect the learning process and make it more difficult for children.
Put soul to every word. That is the secret that, for the Spanish psychopedagogue Mari Carmen Diez, is behind children who love to read. Literacy learning should be full of adventures that the little ones get excited about and identify with. All the lyrics can be a story that connects with your fantasy world.
Motivating them is the best advice for them to become readers. But that cannot be achieved without the right company. And there the role of parents takes the lead. It depends on them that the process of learning to read and write is not tedious or boring. Precisely, they must be the guiding hand that guides children on a path that, clearly, can be wonderful. “Ideally, the father and mother have the attitude of verbally explaining what is happening.
It begins by accompanying the child from baby with words, singing, telling stories before sleeping. After reading books to him, so he doesn’t know what each word says ”, insists 10
