Y1 reading - correcting the reader

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Hoping to get some advice from some of the experienced teachers on here about a technical question.
My son has just gone into year 1. He's reading (I think) really well, excellent comprehension, reads on his own a lot and we read (almost) every day.
My question is regarding how much should I correct him. He will sometimes be reading so fast that he will add the odd word in or change words around slightly. What he is reading still makes total sense, I think he's just reading so fast that he's not always concentrating on every single word separately (almost as if his mind is half a sentence ahead of what's coming out of his mouth). He will often correct himself but not always (more often self corrects if what he said doesn't make sense but if the extra words don't change the context he doesn't seem to notice as much). We talk about reading slowly, pausing for commas and full stops etc. He's actually slowed down a lot. Sometimes he doesn't quite finish a word off out loud either (I know he's said it all to himself in his head).
I've noticed that if I run my finger along under the words it happens less. He doesn't naturally run his own finger along under the words but when I get him to he makes fewer mistakes but I think he stops doing it on the next page as the reading doesn't flow as well.
I've been making him go back and read it correctly EVERY time but just made me wonder if I should sometimes just let him get on with it? Will I be knocking his confidence doing this (doesn't seem to have so far)? Or is enough to let him do that when he's reading to himself but make him be more exact with me to get him into good habits?
Thanks in advance.

"He will sometimes be reading so fast that he will add the odd word in or change words around slightly." Stop him and ask him to read what's there and remind him to finger follow. It needs addressing before it becomes a fixed habit.

Thanks Mrz. Ok, so basically what I've been doing. Just wanted to check I was doing the right thing.
So should I encourage him to use his finger under the words? He doesn't seem to like doing it as I think he feels it slows him down 😀

My DS is a fast reader..He does the same but less now..He is year 6 and still a bookworm..It has made no difference to his love of books

My ds used to do that a lot around that age, and I always made him slow down and read properly, with proper breaks at punctuation.
Now in yr5, he reads with right speed and great expression.
Soon he will learn just reading fast isn't always a good thing.

My DD also has a tendency to do this. I just gently remind her that the purpose of reading out loud is to be totally accurate with the words, punctuation and expression, to show that she is comprehending what has been written. I remind her that she needs to show the person listening that she can do it.

Sometimes, to slow her down and to get her to focus on 'delivery', we switch to poetry, which she really enjoys (particularly if silly voices are required!).

I don't doubt that, when she's reading alone, she gallops through with a bit of skimming. I don't want to interfere with her love of reading, but I do remind her frequently to ask if she doesn't understand anything, and she still enjoys using her online dictionary. I also try to flick through her books myself to check for anything obvious that might benefit from further explanation (the latest example being Derby, which she assumed was pronounced Durby but which is of course pronounced Darby).

I wait until the end of a sentence before correcting to avoid ruining the flow. Ds is a very fast reader (like me) and will skim read. He then gets more of a sense of a story and will miss details (like me...)

I find it very difficult to not skip words when reading and do ask my dcs to use their finger to trace the word but it does make it less enjoyable, I have to say!

Sounds like he is doing great - whizzing through books with great enjoyment and getting loads of practice. Just has a different reading style to others.

I just think that he needs to learn that when reading out loud he must slow down and speak clearly, but when he is doing silent reading he can go at his own pace.

Ok, thanks everyone. Basically carry on with what we're doing. He's definitely improved over the summer, isn't rushing as much and often self corrects. I think if I didn't correct he'd do it more and more. Sometimes good just to talk it through to confirm I'm going in the right direction with him!

My two both did this at around the stage they started reading with expression. I think they'd figured out that you have to scan ahead to get the sense of the sentence in order to get the phrasing right, but then were saying the sentence from memory. Running a finger along makes them go back and look at each word as they say it aloud. Don't know if they just have a better memory now or automatically go back, but we kept reminding and they grew out of it.