Re: [Unschooling-Discussion] Re: Reading- UNSCHOOLING WORKS!
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In a message dated 8/13/03 4:21:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:
No one is advocating or suggesting to "GET THEM BOOKS OUT and teach Johnny to
read! HOOKED ON PHONICS TO THE RESCUE! OH, Lord, somebody call Ned Vare!!,
my kid can't read yet!!"
Unschooling works. No one is saying that it doesn't Nobody is saying that
children will not learn to read, when they are ready, through unschooling (
the happy bubbly kind that someone else mentioned). My initial point was just
that reading does not come naturally to all children, OR adults. It's not a
slam on unschooling or a "loop hole" Nobody is saying "OH OH.. unschooling
does not work with everybody" Why do you think that everything is a
"questioning the integrity" , of the "rightness" of unschooling? That is not the case at
all.
ATTENTION NEWBIES WHO ARE ON THE FENCE, in case you mistakenly thought I
meant that unschooling is not good for a child who does not read "naturally"
GOD, unschooling is the absolute, 100%, without a doubt, BEST way for folks
who have difficulty learning to read to be able to overcome those challanges
and go on to be the best readers they want to be. I know it works. I have
seen, read, heard, and LIVED that it works. But it will take all the "things",
interaction, support, exposure, that others have talked about, things that
are PROactive, rather than REactive, to help the child learn to read at thier
own time and comfort level. NO NO NO, not lessons and workbooks and programs
and "intervention" Just living and loving and being there for the kid.
Providing books.. heck all kinds of printed material, reading aloud to them,
answering thier questions, all the stuff other folks have already mentioned.
Teresa
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SandraDodd@... writes:
> There are people who come to unschooling REALLY hoping for people to say,No one is doing that.. Really, just relax. We are talking about a process..
> "OH, sure, no, your kids won't learn naturally. Don't feel bad if you keep
> pressing lessons on them."
>
> I'm not willing to help parents cop out on getting to natural learning once
>
> they've expressed a real interest, and I'm not at ALL interested in anyone
> diluting the information in this forum by suggesting it won't work for some
> kids.
> Just vaguely making blanket exceptions for vague "disorders" like that is
> not productive, and doesn't help the undecided move away from the school.
>
No one is advocating or suggesting to "GET THEM BOOKS OUT and teach Johnny to
read! HOOKED ON PHONICS TO THE RESCUE! OH, Lord, somebody call Ned Vare!!,
my kid can't read yet!!"
Unschooling works. No one is saying that it doesn't Nobody is saying that
children will not learn to read, when they are ready, through unschooling (
the happy bubbly kind that someone else mentioned). My initial point was just
that reading does not come naturally to all children, OR adults. It's not a
slam on unschooling or a "loop hole" Nobody is saying "OH OH.. unschooling
does not work with everybody" Why do you think that everything is a
"questioning the integrity" , of the "rightness" of unschooling? That is not the case at
all.
ATTENTION NEWBIES WHO ARE ON THE FENCE, in case you mistakenly thought I
meant that unschooling is not good for a child who does not read "naturally"
GOD, unschooling is the absolute, 100%, without a doubt, BEST way for folks
who have difficulty learning to read to be able to overcome those challanges
and go on to be the best readers they want to be. I know it works. I have
seen, read, heard, and LIVED that it works. But it will take all the "things",
interaction, support, exposure, that others have talked about, things that
are PROactive, rather than REactive, to help the child learn to read at thier
own time and comfort level. NO NO NO, not lessons and workbooks and programs
and "intervention" Just living and loving and being there for the kid.
Providing books.. heck all kinds of printed material, reading aloud to them,
answering thier questions, all the stuff other folks have already mentioned.
Teresa
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