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How do i improve his reading skills?

how do i improve my son's reading skills? he is going to take the MCAS next year and i don't want him to get a bad score. he's in 2nd grade right now.

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1. read to him every night
2. GVE HIM DETENSIONS
3. You could hire a special teacher or tutor for him or have him read for a half our every night then have him write a summery of what he read and stuff like that test him that might really help but if your seeking profecional help check out this site that i found for u online http://tutoring.sylvanlearning.com/ Hope i helped tell him Good Luck!
4. I have a 7 yr old and what I did was sit with him , With very easy short books. and read them with him sounding out each word until he started to read on his own.
5. get your son to keep reading and reading to build his vocabulary and comprehension skills. after all, they say you don't get any better unless you work on it. if you have to, work with him on his reading mostly by helping him pronounce unfamiliar words and help him learn the definitions to get him familiarized.
6. singing songs and reading the words at the same time. memorizing nursery rhymes and then reading them this helps with forward reading....anticipating the next word doing these repeatedly really helps. read short stories and discuss afterwards with him the charactors and the moral or content of the story ask how is it related to his life or a friends life you give him examples. give examples these help with memory and comprehension read to him more difficult chapter books. this helps with vocabularly. discuss new words and their meanings and how else the word can be used. the more and various types of literature that YOU read to your children (while being interactive) the more interest they become about reading and language and imagination. reading opens up the mind to better and faster learning in all areas it is so much fun to do this for your child when they are so young....they love the closeness....they feel secure and happy to learn. it gives them happiness and you tooooo!!! :) my kids are super smart and creative. !!!
7. Well, I've never had problems with reading. I love it. But the thing to reading is first enjoying it. So maybe you could have him read books he really likes and then read to him when he's really tired. Heres a pointer... Each word is part of a picture, each sentence is a picture. The whole time you read a book your own type of movie should be going on in your head. And it helps if when you, or someone else, is reading him the book, read it very enthusiastically and ask him questions during it to see what his opinion is about the book. He should find reading fun eventually and have no problems. Hope this helps!
8. I have no idea what MCAS are, but I will give you the same answer I give to every parent with a problem. Why have you waited so long? In all honesty you should have been reading to your child and encouraging his/her interest in books since birth! Of course not all children have the same abilities/interests etc. Some are naturally more academic than others, but you as a Mother should have picked up on this and addressed it at the time. My view is, and you will not like it, is that you are more concerned about your child's public failure than cultivating his personal success. The greatest gift a Mother can give her child is time.....Sadly todays society makes that almost impossible, but what time you do have should be spent in learning and exploring, encouraging curiosity, not in going to see a film, or sharing a DVD or a pizza. I am not an old fashioned, opinionated has been lol I was a mother at 16 with no manual, no older siblings to advise, and no pattern to follow other than instinct. Good luck to you and your son x.