Re: [Unschooling-dotcom]reading and writing
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:05:21 EST RValvo7626@... writes:
whole essay on it once, which is somewhere on my computer that's in
storage.
At 2 1/2 the girls across the hall were in K and grade 1, and they came
over a lot ot play and would play "school" with her (which she loved,
btw). They taught her to spell "cat" and she would run around saying
"C-A-T cat" a lot. I think she already knew most of her letters, I'm not
sure, maybe they taught her.
One day right around her third birthday, she was writing "C-A-T" with
blocks - not alphabet locks, regular blocks that she was using to form
huge letters. Then something clicked in her little head, she took apart
the C, made an "M" and said, "Look - M-A-T, mat".
A few months later she found the BOB books at Borders - we were hanging
out there to beat the heat in Phoenix because of air condiioner had
broken. She found them, read the first two at the store, so I bought them
and she read the rest over the next few weeks. I think I got the next set
a few months later but she only read the first one or two, her interest
in phonics waned abfter the basic letter sounds and short vowel sounds.
So, it continued like that for a year or two, she slowly read more but it
was never a big jump... when she was 5 she was reading those Step 2
books, but it wasn't until about 6 1/2 when something clicked and she
could suddenly read everything, effortlessly...
Someone told me that they had noticed an incresed interest in writeing
beginning about two years after reading in a lot of unschooled kids, and
I've kind of seen that. She didn't want to write anything when she was 7,
but at 8 she's written some poems, some letters, stuff like that, and
begun a few books (usually by writing 3 or 4 sentences).
Dar
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> What age did she read at again? Just curious about the connection(if
> there is any) b/t writing and reading.I can never figure out how to answer this question. I actually wrote a
whole essay on it once, which is somewhere on my computer that's in
storage.
At 2 1/2 the girls across the hall were in K and grade 1, and they came
over a lot ot play and would play "school" with her (which she loved,
btw). They taught her to spell "cat" and she would run around saying
"C-A-T cat" a lot. I think she already knew most of her letters, I'm not
sure, maybe they taught her.
One day right around her third birthday, she was writing "C-A-T" with
blocks - not alphabet locks, regular blocks that she was using to form
huge letters. Then something clicked in her little head, she took apart
the C, made an "M" and said, "Look - M-A-T, mat".
A few months later she found the BOB books at Borders - we were hanging
out there to beat the heat in Phoenix because of air condiioner had
broken. She found them, read the first two at the store, so I bought them
and she read the rest over the next few weeks. I think I got the next set
a few months later but she only read the first one or two, her interest
in phonics waned abfter the basic letter sounds and short vowel sounds.
So, it continued like that for a year or two, she slowly read more but it
was never a big jump... when she was 5 she was reading those Step 2
books, but it wasn't until about 6 1/2 when something clicked and she
could suddenly read everything, effortlessly...
Someone told me that they had noticed an incresed interest in writeing
beginning about two years after reading in a lot of unschooled kids, and
I've kind of seen that. She didn't want to write anything when she was 7,
but at 8 she's written some poems, some letters, stuff like that, and
begun a few books (usually by writing 3 or 4 sentences).
Dar
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