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[quote=Anonymous]My son just turned 6. He really, really wants to read and wants to write, but gets SO FRUSTRATED and impatient... and ultimately winds up crying, says it is too much pressure. The pressure is from himself! He has a number of older friends who will read things for him, so that could also be part of it -- wanting to be like them and wanting to keep up.

I haven't lost my patience with him and I don't push, but I am at a loss for how to support his desire and encourage him to keep going, etc. We've got the BOB books (which he memorized after sounding out once with me; he's not really 'reading' and can't reliably sound out or read the words in isolation), the Kumon writing books, a Kindergarten activity book, a Star Wars phonics book, etc. He's great at playing with numbers -- doing math in his head -- and makes up number games for us to play together; but math is something that he just caught onto w/o any trouble. Perhaps that is why reading and writing are so hard for him -- he has to try harder and really, really concentrate to get it done.

Any fun ideas to help him out? What worked for your kid? [/quote]

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