ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at a few of the general strategies that teachers and parents can implement to help their struggling readers. It discusses three learning styles: visual, auditory, and tactile-kinesthetic. Positioning aids allow for the most beneficial positioning of text, making the content more visible to students with reading difficulties. Reading software is designed to provide scaffolding to the struggling reader. Picture tasks are a wonderful tool to foster reading comprehension skills. Children who have phonemic awareness skills are likely to have an easier time learning to read and spell than children who have few or none of these skills. Teachers can implement the kinds of studies with gifted students, as well, who often enjoy learning how words are constructed. Teachers and parents can use scripts to help students learn to segment words and find rhymes for words and sounds. Teachers can implement various strategies to help students learn in their preferred styles.
