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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not sure what I'd do to teach people like that (note: IANAT). Maybe try to get their other senses engaged. Have them draw pictures of scenes from the book, or perhaps dramatize them (the less dialog the better!). Pick a story where no physical descriptions are given of the characters, and ask the students to describe them. In short, try to engage senses other than their ears.
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Maybe you're NOT a teacher, but you'd probably make a pretty good one if that's how you would teach reading. My sister is a Reading Recovery teacher, and she pretty much uses all those tricks you mentioned while teaching reading. One of her very favorite things to do is "reading theatre," where she assigns each student to read and act out a part in a book, complete with masks and hats and makeshift costumes. Also, while reading aloud, she stops often to make sure that the kids actually know what the passage is actually about -- for instance, she would read, "it was a dark and stormy night," and then stop and say, "Now what does it mean when it says the night was stormy?"
Waits on answers. "Do you think it was a relaxing night or a scary night?" And so on. It can take her forever to get through a book that way, but the students love it, and generally end up much better readers after being in her class.
And I'll stop bragging on my sister now. But she IS an excellent teacher.