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My 13-year-old decided to have her own private reading list this past
summer, since her friends in high school did (she is a year or two younger and
curious about what high school would be like)

So she went online to the local high school websites and pulled all
their reading lists for the different grades and decided what she wanted on
"her" list. She's had a great time telling me what she's been reading -- anyway,
the point is that she is still finishing up and doesn't want to stop. Yesterday
in the car, she began to laugh and to read a passage out loud to me and her
little brother (both of them were early, self-taught readers.)

It was from "To Kill a Mockingbird," about Scout going to first grade
and being told by the teacher that she shouldn't have been allowed to read
before the teacher "taught her properly." It's a hilarious passage and all three
of us had a wonderful time laughing with Scout, at the regimented and clueless
world that doesn't know how delicious self-learning can be. ") JJ

kbcdlovejo@... writes:


> There are other things that might be harder for him to learn--maybe many
> things. But if he knows that HE learned to read (which society believes to
> be
> nearly impossible without early intervention and phonics and "readers" and
> flash
> cards and hours and hours and hours od painstaking read-alouds) on his own,
>
> he'll be empowered to know that he can learn so many other things on his
> own.
> It'll destroy the myth of the need for teachers for every little thing he
> needs
> to know. He'll learn that he can willingly ask for assistance and receive it
>
> graciously. Very important, too.
>
> ~Kelly
>



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In a message dated 10/3/03 10:15:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jrossedd@... writes:

> So she went online to the local high school websites and pulled all
> their reading lists for the different grades and decided what she wanted on
> "her" list.

Anna has done this too. But we went to <A HREF="http://amblesideonline.homestead.com/">
http://amblesideonline.homestead.com/</A> for reading lists. We just use them as suggestions, not like following
thier curriculum, but they have some very good suggestions for great reading. We
use the lists just as suggestions for reading, we dont just pick from one
"level" Some of the books are very familar titles, but many of them I had never
heard of. It's great to go to the library and just pick out books, and we
do that alot.. But, sometimes it gets overwhelming trying to choose. We have
fun looking for particular books THEN deciding if they look good.

Teresa


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