re: reading, spelling, boston...
Joseph Fuerst
----- Ah, Jacli....
Thanks for this story. It parallels my own struggle with my dd's inablity
to read. Her bd is tomorrow...10th that is. My fingers are crossed.......I
am waiting, sometimes patiently, sometimes not, for her to WANT to read.
I'm still shocked that she hasn't wanted too yet.....This has been *my* most
challenging struggle!
Susan
I'm pretty *out* of discussions for awhile....too much celebrating around
here!!
hey,, anybody here that song 9/11?...it's Silent Night playing with a
voice-over of "God" telling where She/He was ...just heard it today. Very
heart-wrenching....but it helped as I am still filled with grief,
especially with the holidays.
Yes Yes!! a little background first...
I taught myself to read at 5. I began reading to my
daughter while she was in the womb.
By the time she was a year old she had 3 libraries,
English, Italian and Spanish. It was a huge thorn
in my side that she couldn't read. I got more and more
frustrated. Wasted more and more money on stuff like
Hooked on Phonics ,etc. Finally realized she did not want
to read. That was even harder to accept. But on her 10th
birthday she decided she did want to read and has been
going strong ever since. EXCEPT... Here she is reading all
sorts of books and comprehending and writing the best darn
book reports, etc but she has the worst spelling. I
couldn't understand how she could read so well and spell so
poorly. But one day recently I realized we work on her
spelling via phonics and with her accent she simply can't
hear half the vowels.
She was born in Massachusetts, on the South Shore. Not
only does she not hear vowels in some cases she doesn't
hear consonants either! For instance the word -better-.
She honestly hears -beDDer-. She drops letters at the ends
of words adds some on to others - it's SOooo frustrating -
for both of us. To make matters worse by the time she was
4 she was in a speech therapy class for almost 2 years,
being taught by a woman with an even worse accent than dd
already had! Now the stuff is ingrained.
Thanks for this story. It parallels my own struggle with my dd's inablity
to read. Her bd is tomorrow...10th that is. My fingers are crossed.......I
am waiting, sometimes patiently, sometimes not, for her to WANT to read.
I'm still shocked that she hasn't wanted too yet.....This has been *my* most
challenging struggle!
Susan
I'm pretty *out* of discussions for awhile....too much celebrating around
here!!
hey,, anybody here that song 9/11?...it's Silent Night playing with a
voice-over of "God" telling where She/He was ...just heard it today. Very
heart-wrenching....but it helped as I am still filled with grief,
especially with the holidays.
Yes Yes!! a little background first...
I taught myself to read at 5. I began reading to my
daughter while she was in the womb.
By the time she was a year old she had 3 libraries,
English, Italian and Spanish. It was a huge thorn
in my side that she couldn't read. I got more and more
frustrated. Wasted more and more money on stuff like
Hooked on Phonics ,etc. Finally realized she did not want
to read. That was even harder to accept. But on her 10th
birthday she decided she did want to read and has been
going strong ever since. EXCEPT... Here she is reading all
sorts of books and comprehending and writing the best darn
book reports, etc but she has the worst spelling. I
couldn't understand how she could read so well and spell so
poorly. But one day recently I realized we work on her
spelling via phonics and with her accent she simply can't
hear half the vowels.
She was born in Massachusetts, on the South Shore. Not
only does she not hear vowels in some cases she doesn't
hear consonants either! For instance the word -better-.
She honestly hears -beDDer-. She drops letters at the ends
of words adds some on to others - it's SOooo frustrating -
for both of us. To make matters worse by the time she was
4 she was in a speech therapy class for almost 2 years,
being taught by a woman with an even worse accent than dd
already had! Now the stuff is ingrained.
Tia Leschke
>I was there when my son turned 10. I was still there when he turned 11 and
>Thanks for this story. It parallels my own struggle with my dd's inablity
>to read. Her bd is tomorrow...10th that is. My fingers are crossed.......I
>am waiting, sometimes patiently, sometimes not, for her to WANT to read.
>I'm still shocked that she hasn't wanted too yet.....This has been *my* most
>challenging struggle!
then 12. <g> Then I made what I consider a mistake and pushed the issue
after he turned 12. I insisted on doing phonics with him every day. We
lasted several months, and he did get a pretty good grip on phonics. It
also soured our relationship for a time, and he still reads very slowly and
almost painfully. If I had it to do over, I would have waited it out.
Tia
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island