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Thread: How do I teach my kid to read?
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06-29-2020, 09:10 PM #26
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06-29-2020, 09:32 PM #27
Great job with the suggestions, everyone. Think Root Jr. will avoid ending up like this.
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06-29-2020, 09:42 PM #28
From what's left of the kindergarten library: narwhal and jelly (Ben clanton), Bob books, the Pigeon series and Elephant and Piggy (Mo willims). Dr Seuss, dog man, captain underpants for sure. And comics, weather it's Mickey mouse, Superman or whatever.
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06-29-2020, 10:30 PM #29
Might not help if libraries are closed, but my family went to the library once a week when we were kids. We were expected to check out two books a week. If we didn’t finish them, no problem; we could check them out again later. This kept us churning through books; eventually we’d find some genre we liked, and get hooked.
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06-29-2020, 10:51 PM #30
My wife went to the library with her three siblings once a week. Back then you could check out seven books each. They all went home and read thier seven books, and then the seven books of each sibling, and then went back to the library next week and repeated.
While I love to read, I can not hold a candle to my wife or daughters.
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06-29-2020, 11:28 PM #31
I'm married to a teacher and we taught our 5 year old the basics of how to read using phonics-based instruction the summer after she turned 4. She can still read now (she could sound out your beer label) but the skills may have backslid somewhat this spring and it was a lot of work last year. I can tell that the mental energy she spends sounding out unfamiliar words is exhausting. I don't think this spring's sudden hiatus from school helped, but she still likes books and we still read to her all the time.
We used Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons as our text last summer, and I'd recommend it if you want to go that route.
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06-30-2020, 12:36 AM #32
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06-30-2020, 06:39 AM #33
Have you tried reading SFB posts to him?
Since nobody else has mentioned it, perhaps he's dyslexic? Kids grow out of things quickly on their own as well. My kid had a stutter when he was first learning to speak, then two years later never heard it again."timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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06-30-2020, 06:46 AM #34
We did the I read a page you read a page then I read a chapter you read a chapter. Keep reading to and with them and it will come.
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06-30-2020, 08:11 AM #35Registered User
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Honestly, don't worry about it. I have a 9 and a 7 year old. Neither could really "read" in Kindergarten. And I was concerned too. But in 1st grade they just took off. 9 year old has blown through all the Harry Potter books since the pandemic started and the 7 year old is reading a couple chapter books (3rd/4th grade level) a week. Keep doing what you are doing. Read to them. Let them see you reading. Discuss the stories to see if they understand what it is happening in them (This is big as mine tend to just blow through the book and can't give me any details). You are doing fine. It is just going to click one day like riding a bike and you will wonder how there was ever a time when they couldn't do it.
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06-30-2020, 08:28 AM #36
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I have been told, and seen for myself, that this stuff happens at different speeds for different kids, for a whole host of reasons. Pegleg's kiddo was burying herself in books years before my kid was interested in reading (6mo age difference), and even now my 9yo kid doesn't love reading "books". But give her a graphic novel and she will bury her face in it until it's done. And she has tested very highly in reading.
So don't sweat it at mini-Root's age, just keep reading to her and enjoying that time. As others have mentioned, you can read some cool books to her. Once they become voracious readers, it's harder to read books to them, it used to be my favorite time and it all ended suddenly, she was just no longer interested in us reading to her. So cherish that. Start reading chapter books to miniRoot, very simple ones. It's a wonderful thing to have the kid transition to a book that doesn't get finished in one sitting.
A few of the favorite chapter books we read to her that we never would have found otherwise (ie, not adult books but not basic ones either): Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (plus 2 more books), When Mischief Came to Town by Katrina Nannestad, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews.
Basically, just keep reading to miniRoot, it will all work."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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06-30-2020, 10:25 AM #37Registered User
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Agree with others regarding different kids naturally learning to read at different paces and keeping him engaged with books (reading to him, audiobooks) in the meantime. But as the parent of a dyslexic kid I want to note that "he's good at math so doesn't have a learning disability" is a fallacy - reading involves a separate set of visual processing skills that are independent of basic intelligence and ability in math and other subjects. My girl had no problems with math but was still struggling with reading in 3rd grade. We got her help and she's now an avid reader and just got an A+ in her high school English class. If your kid is still having issues in 2nd grade you should consider having him tested for dyslexia and getting him extra help (either through the school or separately) if appropriate.
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06-30-2020, 10:41 AM #38
On the book suggestion theme: Where the Sidewalk Ends
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06-30-2020, 11:15 AM #39Registered User
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Aside from the numerous reading activities my kids did in day care and kindergarten, they both did lots of Jolly Phonics and Bob Books, for their own practice and then age appropriate books for being read to. If they are too advanced, kids lose focus and stop paying attention.
Scholastic publishes great books with age ranges under the “Branches” publishing name. These are often series that help with memory as the characters and “quests” continue over many books.
Talking about what you have read and answering study questions is often helpful as it helps them understand matching up words in questions to words in the text (simple word searching, even if they can’t read the word).
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06-30-2020, 11:39 AM #40
You could just do almost anything by Shel Silverstein or Rohold Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is great for teaching that your imagination is different than a movie, because nobody expects Gene Wilder.
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06-30-2020, 11:48 AM #41
The great thing about Silverstein's books is that many of the poems are only a few lines long and accessible to kids who are still learning to read, while others are pages long and good ones for the parents to read. Plus, reading Silverstein's work is especially fun as an adult if you know how crazy his personal life was.
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06-30-2020, 02:03 PM #42
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06-30-2020, 02:30 PM #43"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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06-30-2020, 06:31 PM #44
It's true even older kids like to be read to, as somebody mentioned. When I was a high school English teacher I had some real sweat hogs in my classes (being a noob they gave me the classes of kids who had failed the district writing assessment). These kids were a real handful when it came to behavior problems, but when I cracked a novel and started reading to them, it was amazing how catatonic it was. Even the bruisers who had zero interest in school or good grades would shut up and get lost in the story. And if I ever tried to catch them spacing out with a question about the plot, I was consistently amazed to find that they were actually paying attention. They even liked it when I read Shakespeare to them, and were able to decipher the language and plot seemingly much better than if they were reading it themselves. It was interesting to observe.
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06-30-2020, 11:06 PM #45
Agreed.
And in that same vein, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Also for preschool kids, Roy Girard’s books are fun, with great illustrations and fun rhyming. A favorite was Rosie and The Rustlers “Where the mountains meet the prairie, where the men are wild and hairy, is a little ranch where Rosie Jones is boss...”
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07-01-2020, 06:35 AM #46
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07-01-2020, 06:38 AM #47
This was pretty much my story. I had an elementary school teacher for a mother who read to me all the time, but I couldn't read in kindergarten and didn't excel at it in first grade, being moved to a lower reading group. My second grade teacher was supposedly terrible, but the anarchism of he classroom worked for me and soon I was devouring books. Sometimes it just takes a while to click, so be patient and just keep books being fun.
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07-01-2020, 06:55 AM #48
Find a subject they're interested in. Like dinosaurs, birds or fish (or in Danno's case, white guilt) and buy books with pictures and words, heavy on the pictures. Eventually they'll start reading the stuff around the pictures. I found the nonsense books like Dr Seuss etc. were fine for reading with us/parents before bed, but very rarely would my kid pick those up and just start reading them. The dinosaur book was constantly being picked up and read even if he didn't know all the words.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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07-01-2020, 07:15 AM #49
Has no one suggest beating the shit out of her until she does a better job? Just tell her, if you continue to fuck this simple stuff up then the beatings are going to get worse. She'll be dazzling the company with Shakespeare in no time! Spare the rod, spoil the child...
Brandine: Now Cletus, if I catch you with pig lipstick on your collar one more time you ain't gonna be allowed to sleep in the barn no more!
Cletus: Duly noted.
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07-01-2020, 07:32 AM #50"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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