Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] panicky mother whose seven year old isn't reading yet WAS Crud
Tim and Maureen
I like David Albert's essay on reading - in all the years he's been homeschooling/talking about HS at conferences, he's never met a child over 17/18 that did not read. Some read sooner. Some later. Some much later. It'll happen! Trust the child.
Friends of ours (Unschoolers) trust that their eldest who is nearly 11 will eventually get interested. In the meantime, his 8 yo brother reads to/for him. Now that's coping behaviour! :O))
My (reading) thots
Tim T
HeidiC who has run out of time entirely.
WHOOOOO was asked her opinion about reading by a panicky mother whose
seven year old isn't reading yet, and wanted to share that post with
that panicky mother, along with all the OTHER pearls of wisdom that
already fell from my lips. ;)
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Friends of ours (Unschoolers) trust that their eldest who is nearly 11 will eventually get interested. In the meantime, his 8 yo brother reads to/for him. Now that's coping behaviour! :O))
My (reading) thots
Tim T
HeidiC who has run out of time entirely.
WHOOOOO was asked her opinion about reading by a panicky mother whose
seven year old isn't reading yet, and wanted to share that post with
that panicky mother, along with all the OTHER pearls of wisdom that
already fell from my lips. ;)
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Heidi
You know what convinced me? A paragraph in Gatto's book Underground
History of American Education. He says (paraphrase) Sudbury Valley
school doesn't have any reading lessons. No one teaches reading, yet
every kid that attends there, leaves knowing how to read.
That, along with the frustration of watching two kids pick up reading
with less than one week of phonics, and the third kid NOT pick up
reading with a half a YEAR of phonics. The first two were ready to
read, and would have learned, phonics or not. The third is my "late
starting reader" who hasn't started reading yet. And this poor mother
of a seven year old...My main advice to her was "Relax" and "Don't
let the experts get all worked up about him, or they could make him
even more miserable" (he's already feeling so bad, because he is in
p.s. and his classmates all read)
I doubt my friend would relax so long as late teens, though! ack. LOL
I might not be able to do THAT! (working on it...working on it)
HeidiC
--- In [email protected], Tim and Maureen
<tmthomas@s...> wrote:
over 17/18 that did not read. Some read sooner. Some later. Some
much later. It'll happen! Trust the child.
brother reads to/for him. Now that's coping behaviour! :O))
History of American Education. He says (paraphrase) Sudbury Valley
school doesn't have any reading lessons. No one teaches reading, yet
every kid that attends there, leaves knowing how to read.
That, along with the frustration of watching two kids pick up reading
with less than one week of phonics, and the third kid NOT pick up
reading with a half a YEAR of phonics. The first two were ready to
read, and would have learned, phonics or not. The third is my "late
starting reader" who hasn't started reading yet. And this poor mother
of a seven year old...My main advice to her was "Relax" and "Don't
let the experts get all worked up about him, or they could make him
even more miserable" (he's already feeling so bad, because he is in
p.s. and his classmates all read)
I doubt my friend would relax so long as late teens, though! ack. LOL
I might not be able to do THAT! (working on it...working on it)
HeidiC
--- In [email protected], Tim and Maureen
<tmthomas@s...> wrote:
> I like David Albert's essay on reading - in all the years he's beenhomeschooling/talking about HS at conferences, he's never met a child
over 17/18 that did not read. Some read sooner. Some later. Some
much later. It'll happen! Trust the child.
>nearly 11 will eventually get interested. In the meantime, his 8 yo
> Friends of ours (Unschoolers) trust that their eldest who is
brother reads to/for him. Now that's coping behaviour! :O))
>
> My (reading) thots
> Tim T