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I'm NOT an expert with this, but I know Grant did some of it. And, when he'd finish a little paragraph I would just say, "Let's read that again. You added a few words that aren't there and left some out that are. I KNOW you can get it exactly right." I'd think that if you did that for a couple paragraphs when she started reading, she'd be watching more closely and the problem would fade. It did for us.

I know that I occasionally do it, too. I especially notice it when I'm reading expressively to the little ones and looking at them. Rather than go back to corect, I sub a word that makes the meaning the same (like a not at the end of a sentence instead of the beginning where I missed it).

Kathleen

I would have her eyes checked as well I did this an awful lot as a kid and I had a tracking problem.
make her hold the book at an angle and see if she improves. I have always from the very beginning made my child re read any passage she is sloppy on. or using "creative" punctuation. Ok that was a good try pleae re read it and "don't add any words" or re read it and "read all the words", or re read it and "don't change any words." etc. She used to get discouraged but I keep pointing out I'm not teaching and she is not learning, if I let her do it wrong.

may be ease in to it till it becomes a habit.

I do correct when they are "emerging readers." If my son makes a big mistake, I still correct him. I do let little tiny things slide...like replacing "a" with "the" and such.

My dd does this too. I think she is reading ahead silently in her brain, and she ends up mixing up words when she speaks them. I think it's just an issue of reading faster than she can talk! Right now I do stop her and make her correct every mistake (she is almost done with the emerging readers set). She reads a ton on her own for fun, so I figure it doesn't hurt her to slow down and read her school books more carefully!

If its a tracking problem she will read better if the book is at an angle like how you read a book in bed or sitting down. .. simple easy test. See if she is better that way than say laying flat on the table. A regular eye exam wouldn't pick up a reading tracking issue if its mild. If they didn't pick it up in the screening then my guess is she is tracking just fine.

Dyslexia when we were kids was a catch all for all sorts of problems. it just means "reading problem" Now I have a problem writing not so much reading I spell what waht constantly due to my nurons on one finger letting that a get a head of the h... And My eyes pop, if she's sticking a word that doesn't belong, its possible she is reading a word else where on the page usually directly above or below the sentence she is reading. I just learned to cope wiht it see that I got out to fast... lol

So my guess is her brain needs more training. Maybe lower the level of books she is reading to one she is super comfortable with so if she is 4th grade lower it to 3.5. She could be just guessing at the words still, and her brain needs more input. If they are easier you will have less correction to do... or possibly more!!!! if she has memorized the book and starts paraphrasing.

You know that 2 part invention that is how we read. First is phonics we sound out each part then when we have enough practice we start to sight read. And we can raed msot wrods if the frist and lsat letetr are in the corrcet poistion. So if shes reading give for gave or some for same. more practice!!!!

What a great way to test out what's going on! Now, you know she can do it, she just needs to train herself to do it too. One thing that helped my ds was to practice reading it silently or out loud on his own (his choice), before reading it out loud to me. We did this only for his Emerging Reader's books and part of his first DITHOR book. I told him that his was a practice round, so by the time he read it for me, I could hear it when he had it down pat.

Now, if he starts reading and has made a bunch of errors in the first paragraph, I'll stop him and remind him to look at it more carefully and ask him to have a fresh start where he is really concentrating and reread it. I don't really care about substitutions like "a" for "the", or "wouldn't" for "would not", etc., as long as the errors are not abundant.

The other thing that helps him to read more carefully is to assign him to read about 2 pages out loud to me and tell him he needs to do it quite perfectly, and if he does, then he can read silently. If not, we read more pages out loud. In fact I still do this with my oldest 10 yo for his DITHOR book (he's always been my one to mispronounce words). I've told him that reading well out loud is an important skill to always practice some, and that if he can show me he's good at it in 1 or 2 pages, then there's no need for me to have him do it for 3 or more pages. This motivates them to do their very best reading out loud, and it also seems to carryover into their silent reading, as their comprehension has not suffered.

One other thing that has been important for the stage of reading you are describing is to make sure I've kept the readings short, so that they can focus on reading carefully with expression, rather than rushing to finish reading a bunch of pages. We usually keep it around 4 pages, reading 2 aloud and 2 silently. HTH!

In Christ,
Julie

Hooray! Success! I cannot tell you the amount of times I have worried over things for weeks, months - only to find the problem pretty much fixed when I talked it over with our dc. I am so glad this was the case for your little Emma! You did such a good job of working this out with her. I think with just a few reminders, and maybe an occasional modeling of sloppy reading, and you'll have it solved. Way to go, Mom!

In Christ,
Julie