Re: re: helping almost 7 year old to read
Michele Sears
Thank-you to everyone who has responded so far!
aj, I am excited to share with ds the ideas you have mentioned - we have
talked about games/videos, and he was excited by that so now I have a place
to start. Online is free! I think he'll like helping me to label household
items too - we'll see once he wakes! (sleeping in is one of his favourite
parts of homeschooling! Really realized this once hockey started this
year....lol!)
I have tried the suggestion of informing him that others are not reading
now, which I know to be true wholeheartedly, but he seems to internally want
to read, and my "telling him" that it's okay doesn't seem to help much. The
magic books I've found do have lots of pictures - but it's not quite enough!
I think I will look for a video though - that's a great idea!
So, any other suggestions out there would be great!
Michele
aj, I am excited to share with ds the ideas you have mentioned - we have
talked about games/videos, and he was excited by that so now I have a place
to start. Online is free! I think he'll like helping me to label household
items too - we'll see once he wakes! (sleeping in is one of his favourite
parts of homeschooling! Really realized this once hockey started this
year....lol!)
I have tried the suggestion of informing him that others are not reading
now, which I know to be true wholeheartedly, but he seems to internally want
to read, and my "telling him" that it's okay doesn't seem to help much. The
magic books I've found do have lots of pictures - but it's not quite enough!
I think I will look for a video though - that's a great idea!
So, any other suggestions out there would be great!
Michele
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In a message dated 2/25/2005 11:15:27 AM Mountain Standard Time,
brewstersears@... writes:
he seems to internally want
to read, and my "telling him" that it's okay doesn't seem to help much.
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But his desire doesn't equal ability, either.
Lots of kids want to read years before it comes to them.
Some babies want to ride a bike.
Some children want to play football with the big boys.
All of those things take time to mature, and desire doesn't do it.
Keep him busy and distracted and buy him magazines with lots of pictures, so
that even reading one word of a caption would be helpful, but not necessary.
Find DVDs of movies he knows well and leave the subtitles on (if he wants)
but don't make a deal out of it. I watch with subtitles lots of times so
that if someone talks to me I can still keep up with the movie (that hyperactive
multi-tasking ability helps sometimes). I never turned them on for kids'
benefit, but for mine. And with foreign accents or mumbling actors, subtitles
are great!!
(Frustratingly for me, there were no English subtitles on "Flawless" in
which Robert deNiro, playing a stroke victim, talks without moving one side of
his mouth.)
Sing-along videos--we had lots of them. Disney, Animaniacs. But with DVDs
and subtitles all KINDS of things become "sing along videos." Any musical or
kid-concert video can be a singalong.
Sandra
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brewstersears@... writes:
he seems to internally want
to read, and my "telling him" that it's okay doesn't seem to help much.
---------
But his desire doesn't equal ability, either.
Lots of kids want to read years before it comes to them.
Some babies want to ride a bike.
Some children want to play football with the big boys.
All of those things take time to mature, and desire doesn't do it.
Keep him busy and distracted and buy him magazines with lots of pictures, so
that even reading one word of a caption would be helpful, but not necessary.
Find DVDs of movies he knows well and leave the subtitles on (if he wants)
but don't make a deal out of it. I watch with subtitles lots of times so
that if someone talks to me I can still keep up with the movie (that hyperactive
multi-tasking ability helps sometimes). I never turned them on for kids'
benefit, but for mine. And with foreign accents or mumbling actors, subtitles
are great!!
(Frustratingly for me, there were no English subtitles on "Flawless" in
which Robert deNiro, playing a stroke victim, talks without moving one side of
his mouth.)
Sing-along videos--we had lots of them. Disney, Animaniacs. But with DVDs
and subtitles all KINDS of things become "sing along videos." Any musical or
kid-concert video can be a singalong.
Sandra
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