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Golden Heart Luncheon from page 1 video tour of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, as well as
the hospital’s inpatient, emergency, and neonatal intensive care Reading
units at Jupiter Medical Center.
The event raised $490,000 to help children like Maelyn and
Jack and Barbara Nicklaus founded the Nicklaus Children’s Comprehension
Maja get the medical treatment they need.
Health Care Foundation in 2004 to provide world-class
raising more than $160 million to date. The foundation Problem?
pediatric care to children in Palm Beach County and beyond,

supports Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, which has helped
children from every state in the union and 119 countries. The By Jim Forgan, Ph.D.,
Nicklaus Children’s Health System includes the main hospital Licensed School
campus in Miami, and 17 outpatient and urgent care centers Psychologist
Lilly Bates, Mackenzie from Monroe County to Martin County, as well as a pediatric Reading comprehension
Diane Perrella, Beth Neuhoff O’Leary partnership with Jupiter Medical Center. is a complex task involving
Photos by Tracey Benson Photography your child, the text, and the
multidimensional task of
reading. These variables
combine to create reading
comprehension.
Consider your child.
To achieve reading
comprehension, your child must bring a positive mindset,
background knowledge, and reading skills to what they read.
If your child is a reluctant or struggling reader, does he have
a positive mindset about it? If not, how can you change it?
Your child’s prior life experiences contribute to reading
Roberta Golub, Dr. Evelyn Hillary Gumbel, Susan comprehension. Consider yourself assembling furniture.
Higgins Johnson Erin and Barbara McGould Kelly O’Leary, Nan O’Leary When you’ve previously put together furniture, that
experience helps you anticipate assembling the new piece.
Every time your child learns or experiences something
new they make connections and store it to use later when
encountering new material. Thus, what type of varying
experiences or knowledge are you giving your child?
The text or books your child reads contributes to his or
her understanding. Like the story of Goldilocks and the Three
Bears, you don’t want the text your child reads to be too easy
or too hard, but just right. Find out your elementary age child’s
Lexile level and pick books within that range. Learn more at
lexile.com or talk to your local librarian.
The act of reading is multidimensional and includes
quickly sounding out words, reading speed, and vocabulary.
Kristi Cauley, Patty McDonald, Kathy Briana Beaty, Laura Russell, Allison If your child is reading aloud to you and mispronounces
Theofilos Nicklaus Thais Vogel, Sara Jolly, Diana Jaeger words, only correct the words that change the meaning.
Using a book at your child’s Lexile level, simultaneously
read aloud with your child to build reading speed. Stop
periodically and take turns describing what each person
is picturing in their mind as visualizing helps with
comprehension. Teach your child a new vocabulary word
each week and practice using it during the week.
If you want to increase your child’s reading comprehension,
allocate sufficient time to work on it, read with your child,
provide varied life experiences, and work on skills. If you
need a specialist, I have reading tutors at jimforgan.com/tutor.
Dr. Forgan is a licensed school psychologist and certified
dyslexia testing specialist and can help you at (561) 625-4125
Barbara and Jack Nicklaus, Maja Milovanovic, Maelyn or JimForgan.com.
Jarmon Nan O’Leary, Barbara Nicklaus, Patty McDonald

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