Reply to Reading - who taught your kid to read?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Reading - who taught your kid to read?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

Certainly alphabet memorization and reading at school helps at pk/k levels.[b] But if you read to your kids as parents (almost) every night as toddlers thru pre-k they’ll learn almost by osmosis[/b]. 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. [/quote]

+1  Kids who are read to every day/night learn sight (site) words and usually will be able to read, really read, before kindergarten.  It helps if you use your finger to tap below words as you move through the story to help them develop COW (concept of word).  Read the same stories over and over and over and over again.  Have your children read to you eventually, especially using their finger tapping under the words.

OP, it sounds like this advice is too late for you and your child.  What does your child's teacher say?  It sounds like your child is in 2nd grade now.  Whatever the case, you need to read with your child every night for 30 minutes until he/she gest caught up IN ADDITION to whatever the school is doing.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics