Helping your child overcome reading challenges

Tracey's (education, Kean Univ.) book explores all aspects of learning to read. She starts by emphasizing the importance of diet, sleep, exercise, and creating a stable emotional foundation for challenging tasks by learning to cope with feelings. Tracey then tackles reading itself and reasons that children might struggle to read, the most common being auditory processing (also: issues with the meaning processor or context processor, or vision impairment). For each of these areas, Tracey offers activities for developing reading skills; for instance, improving auditory processing by making rhymes or deleting syllables. Other activities include a mystery object bag; themed vocabulary development; increasing attention with board games and Legos; Zoom pajama reading to build motivation; and having fun in the kitchen to practice reading instructions. VERDICT Sure to be a helpful volume for the many parents of children who struggle with reading for a variety of reasons.