Reading - who taught your kid to read?

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Who taught your kid to read - the sounds, the blends, the combos, the practice.
Preschool, you, an IPad app, or your independent school teacher (and if so what grade)?

We had play based pk and K, lots of specials for grade 1, and no homework policies school so have never seen a word list or literacy pack come home for either of our kids. Now we feel naive since they still don’t know concepts or spelling and I wonder what fell through the cracks here.

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Preschool taught letters and sounds
I explained blending after they knew sounds
Kindergarten and up did the rest. My kids have weekly spelling lists and tests.

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Me, then it was cemented in kindergarten. Spelling throughout grade school.

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At home with me before kindergarten : letter recognition & sounds, along with variety of sight words She was reading Bob books before starting school. We did it through a mix of play, lots of reading together and Starfall.com

The rest was done at school. I just continued to read to her plenty at home.

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Combination of preschool, home and kindergarten. Two of my kids did private until third grade and the other did public starting in kindergarten. I never did play based schools. I think that’s what fell through the cracks for you. But it’s not like your kids won’t learn. It’s just a different schedule.

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Daycare preschool and public prek. You need to teach the kids yourself since you chose play based preschool.

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If they can’t read at all, get a literacy coach, buy Bob books and start them on that. They should pick up quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:At home with me before kindergarten : letter recognition & sounds, along with variety of sight words She was reading Bob books before starting school. We did it through a mix of play, lots of reading together and Starfall.com

The rest was done at school. I just continued to read to her plenty at home.

Same., but mine went to preschool and we started a bit before that, doing all the above. We also read EVERY SIGN

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Anonymous wrote:Combination of preschool, home and kindergarten. Two of my kids did private until third grade and the other did public starting in kindergarten. I never did play based schools. I think that’s what fell through the cracks for you. But it’s not like your kids won’t learn. It’s just a different schedule.

We did a progressive school, seemed like kids came in with a foundation and plateaued until parents picked up the slack at home. The kids who were emerging readers it took thorough second grade, but the method was never made clear to parents.

I think if your child is eager, parents need to step up if the school curriculum does not.

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Kindergarten teacher. We did very little before. Kid went to DCPS for elementary and is now in a Big3 private.

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ASDEC tutor

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Public school k and 1st taught both kids, both came over for 3rd grade private school.
Montessori pk did great phonics and handwriting but each 4 yo only got though capital letters and consonant sounds, short vowel sounds. No blends or long vowel / silent letter rules.
We only read to our kids, until k when we did a mix of them reading simple books we had or homework or listening to us read chapter books- magic treehouse, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who taught your kid to read - the sounds, the blends, the combos, the practice.
Preschool, you, an IPad app, or your independent school teacher (and if so what grade)?

We had play based pk and K, lots of specials for grade 1, and no homework policies school so have never seen a word list or literacy pack come home for either of our kids. Now we feel naive since they still don’t know concepts or spelling and I wonder what fell through the cracks here.

Certainly alphabet memorization and reading at school helps at pk/k levels. But if you read to your kids as parents (almost) every night as toddlers thru pre-k they’ll learn almost by osmosis. DC1 got about 3-5 Dr. Seuss books a night from age 2-3 on and was reading independently by 4 / 4-1/2. DC2 was less interested in reading and being read to and started closer to 5 / 5-1/2, which seemed fine.

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I read a lot to both kids, but they learned to read and write in Montessori primary school. They learned to write in cursive, and of course largely lost that skill in elementary school.