Re: Girls/Reading
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Emma, who just turned 3 has already learned the sounds of the letters
(actually started picking them up right around 2 years of age). She's
done this pretty much on her own....she started by asking 'what sound
does that letter make, mom?', etc.....Now at 3, she is sounding out
every printed word she sees, practically. I'm doing little but
interjecting things here and there when we read, like letting her know
that when a 'y' is on the end of word, it usually makes the 'ee'
sound....and letting her know what some of the blending consonants sound
like (sh, ch, ck, etc.). She is extremely interested in it all and it
ALWAYS asking me what a certain word says or means.
However, I do not think this is the 'norm'....She was talking in 3 and 4
(very clear) word sentences at 18 months, and even now at 3 has an
incredible vocabulary which people can't believe!
This is also one of the reasons I wanted to 'unschool'....so that Em
'is' just as free to learn things at an earlier age as she is a later
age.....whatever and whenever she's interested....
Hugs,
Denise
(actually started picking them up right around 2 years of age). She's
done this pretty much on her own....she started by asking 'what sound
does that letter make, mom?', etc.....Now at 3, she is sounding out
every printed word she sees, practically. I'm doing little but
interjecting things here and there when we read, like letting her know
that when a 'y' is on the end of word, it usually makes the 'ee'
sound....and letting her know what some of the blending consonants sound
like (sh, ch, ck, etc.). She is extremely interested in it all and it
ALWAYS asking me what a certain word says or means.
However, I do not think this is the 'norm'....She was talking in 3 and 4
(very clear) word sentences at 18 months, and even now at 3 has an
incredible vocabulary which people can't believe!
This is also one of the reasons I wanted to 'unschool'....so that Em
'is' just as free to learn things at an earlier age as she is a later
age.....whatever and whenever she's interested....
Hugs,
Denise
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In a message dated 7/24/02 10:07:30 PM, kevden@... writes:
<< Emma, who just turned 3 has already learned the sounds of the letters
(actually started picking them up right around 2 years of age). She's
done this pretty much on her own....she started by asking 'what sound
does that letter make, mom?', etc.....Now at 3, she is sounding out
every printed word she sees, practically. I'm doing little but
interjecting things here and there when we read, like letting her know
that when a 'y' is on the end of word, it usually makes the 'ee'
sound....and letting her know what some of the blending consonants sound
like (sh, ch, ck, etc.). She is extremely interested in it all and it
ALWAYS asking me what a certain word says or means. >>
My kids did that. Kirby was naming letters before he knew the answer to "how
old are you?" And in school, that would have netted him profit in grades
and "credit" and praise. But at home it was fun, and cool, but no better
than naming the Ninja Turtles or knowing musical instrument sounds apart.
And he came to reading in his own time, and from letters and the sounds they
make to fluent reading was seven years.
But what's the rush? Parents are netted profit in "ooh" and "Well YOU sure
know how to teach your kids" if kids read early, and some kids do break that
code really early on, but very many don't.
Yesterday Marty (13) gave Julie (14?) four novels which I helped him buy used
from Amazon. A series. He bought them with his own money for her birthday
and then kept missing her so gave them to her on my birthday. <g> She was
THRILLED. Two years ago she couldn't have read them and now she's up to a
novel a day, but mostly uses the library in a small town. We played
"Picture Picture," a kind of board game (we ignored the board) where you all
look at a picture with lots of detail and name things. We weren't counting
spelling, so Holly was playing too. It was her idea, because she's watched
people play it for years and finally wanted to play. Renee and Julie are two
of the late-reading kids from the article on the front page of the library at
www.unschooling.com.
The first round, I won. We didn't really count and announce scores very hard
through any of it But once they saw how I was doing it, naming things others
weren't bothering to name, they picked up and I came in third of six several
other times. The night's big winner was Renee, who was never "taught"
reading or writing or "vocabulary" but has always been observant and creative
and thoughtful and there it was. And in one round Holly won, even though she
writes slowly and with invented spelling. It was because she was looking and
thinking and not feeling she had no chance because the rest were older or in
"higher grades." There was none of that. It was wonderful.
Sandra
<< Emma, who just turned 3 has already learned the sounds of the letters
(actually started picking them up right around 2 years of age). She's
done this pretty much on her own....she started by asking 'what sound
does that letter make, mom?', etc.....Now at 3, she is sounding out
every printed word she sees, practically. I'm doing little but
interjecting things here and there when we read, like letting her know
that when a 'y' is on the end of word, it usually makes the 'ee'
sound....and letting her know what some of the blending consonants sound
like (sh, ch, ck, etc.). She is extremely interested in it all and it
ALWAYS asking me what a certain word says or means. >>
My kids did that. Kirby was naming letters before he knew the answer to "how
old are you?" And in school, that would have netted him profit in grades
and "credit" and praise. But at home it was fun, and cool, but no better
than naming the Ninja Turtles or knowing musical instrument sounds apart.
And he came to reading in his own time, and from letters and the sounds they
make to fluent reading was seven years.
But what's the rush? Parents are netted profit in "ooh" and "Well YOU sure
know how to teach your kids" if kids read early, and some kids do break that
code really early on, but very many don't.
Yesterday Marty (13) gave Julie (14?) four novels which I helped him buy used
from Amazon. A series. He bought them with his own money for her birthday
and then kept missing her so gave them to her on my birthday. <g> She was
THRILLED. Two years ago she couldn't have read them and now she's up to a
novel a day, but mostly uses the library in a small town. We played
"Picture Picture," a kind of board game (we ignored the board) where you all
look at a picture with lots of detail and name things. We weren't counting
spelling, so Holly was playing too. It was her idea, because she's watched
people play it for years and finally wanted to play. Renee and Julie are two
of the late-reading kids from the article on the front page of the library at
www.unschooling.com.
The first round, I won. We didn't really count and announce scores very hard
through any of it But once they saw how I was doing it, naming things others
weren't bothering to name, they picked up and I came in third of six several
other times. The night's big winner was Renee, who was never "taught"
reading or writing or "vocabulary" but has always been observant and creative
and thoughtful and there it was. And in one round Holly won, even though she
writes slowly and with invented spelling. It was because she was looking and
thinking and not feeling she had no chance because the rest were older or in
"higher grades." There was none of that. It was wonderful.
Sandra