The 6 Interferences to Reading Success
1. Meaning and Experience
The lack of experience can limit a child's ability to comprehend situations within text.
Failing to understand the author's meaning can create an interference to comprehension
2. Accuracy
Reading the word correctly
3. Attention and Motivation
Possessing a short attention span, veering away from text, or an easily distracted child can prevent that child from being a successful reader.
Lacking the desire to read will also hinder a child.
4. Fluency
Reading smoothly and with ease, as well as, being automatic, accurate and reading with expression all play into your child reading fluently.
5. Automaticity
Reading the word automatic (within three seconds)
6. Language:
a.) vocabulary
1. understanding the meaning of the word
b.) syntax
2. The way our English language works.
Ex. The boy is running. The word boy could be substituted for a noun and still retain meaning according to syntax.
c.) idioms
3. Familiar expressions of speech.
Ex. Bury the hatchet. This doesn't literally mean to go and bury a real hatchet. The phrase is meant to imply a common agreement to forget and forgive a specific wrongdoing. The Amelia Bedelia book series is a wonderful example of children's literature that beautifully illustrates and uses idioms to engage children in reading.