Alice is asking me to teacher her how to read, so I am beginning Reading Club again with her. She is begging to learn to read -- that would be closer to the truth. I think she is too young, but she is asking her mother, her dad and me at every moment she thinks of it.
So I began to read with her. Right now we are on 'Jump and Run' and we just finished the story called 'A Box'. I think they are books 8 and 9, which others may have now forgotten but the stories are clear in our minds. The stories even make us laugh. For example, when we read the words "a rabbit is in the box" and then see the picture, it is like something wonderful has happened.
I think Alice can’t stand it that Michael can read words on signs, etc., and she can’t. It is not that she minds that he can do it. She just minds that she can't.
Reading is hard work for those little things. I am glad that I know one of the skills, which is “give them the word if they pause at all, just give it to them and let them keep going”.
What a gift just that idea is and I use it with Alice. I want to stop and say, no, look at that word. Look at it again. Even though I know that doesn’t work, it is so hard to suppress the idea that it is pedagogically correct to teach that way.
Well, Alice wants to read and she can do about 20 words already.
Arta
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| Alice working on her reading workbook |
I think Alice can’t stand it that Michael can read words on signs, etc., and she can’t. It is not that she minds that he can do it. She just minds that she can't.
Reading is hard work for those little things. I am glad that I know one of the skills, which is “give them the word if they pause at all, just give it to them and let them keep going”.
What a gift just that idea is and I use it with Alice. I want to stop and say, no, look at that word. Look at it again. Even though I know that doesn’t work, it is so hard to suppress the idea that it is pedagogically correct to teach that way.
Well, Alice wants to read and she can do about 20 words already.
Arta
I love that Alice wants to read! Just wait she will be reading the full Harry Potter series by 6!! :) You are an amazing Grandmother! <3
ReplyDeleteI am often curious about Alice. I have a nativity set down low but in my China cabinet. When I see it has been re-arranged, I know that Alice has been over.
ReplyDeleteFor Easter I have out a set of white salt and pepper shakers, shaped like a Bunny and an Egg. Alice like to come over and salt the counter, the tray on which the salt and pepper sit, and other little dishes around. Everything is covered with salt, which reminds me, I must fill it up again.
As well I have a set of bowls that are small measuring cups and that fit inside of one another. The top of the bowls is a lid on which is a ceramic bunny. I left Alice alone downstairs for about 3 minutes and when she finally left, I noticed that the measuring cups had been re-arranged.
All of this, and she can read too.
The Harry Potter series may be finished by her family the time she has enough vocabulary to read the books. But that is a series that can be read over and over.
Thank you for the compliment about being an amazing grandmother. Mostly I feel myself wanting to play with children, somehow. We have a new 18 month old upstairs for a while. Since the snow is so lovely and soft, I got a bowl of it and brought it in for him to play in it. His father was nervous about frost bite. That wasn't even on my horizon. The baby and I were just having fun until the snow melted. I might be seen more as interfering than amazing, Kerri. :-)