OT: 7DD's Needs Help Reading

[youretooloud]

It is hard to catch up once you fall behind. It's almost like a race. The race starts, and everybody seems to get going fine, but then you look up, and you are a lap behind. You have to make up that whole lap, but everybody else is still running at the same speed, and it feels like you'll never catch up.

I did a lot of home made games. (this was 15 years ago though) I would cut 3X 5 cards in half, write the word on both halves and play memory match games.

Or I'd write the word, and cut the word in half, then we'd play match games to put the word back together.

Hopscotch games with chalk on the sidewalk, using the words.

I made board games.

We played "So you want to be a millionaire" with the phonograms. (phonograms are hard) I used play money, and then real stuff to buy with the play money. We did this all summer one year with the whole group of kids, and I bought a bunch of things at Oriental trading to stock the store.

Most kids are either "sight readers" or "sounders" Some kids can easily sound out a word, other kids read by sight. Now, as adults, we all read by sight. But, some kids need to learn the phonograms.

http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Sight%20words

Here are some phonogram games. If she's a sounder, she will like these. But, if she's a sight reader, the other games will be better for her. Either way, she should try both.

http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=phonograms

Read her really awesomely fun books. Some people don't like Junie B Jones, or Marvin Redpost...but, I think they are great! Look up Marvin Redpost "Why pick on me". It's about kids accusing each other of nose picking, and it's hilarious. If you read her one or two chapters a night, eventually, she will get hooked on reading stories, and realize they are not boring at all...and when reading is easier for her, she will want to read.

If reading is bad or boring, or too hard for her, she will not learn to love reading. So, she will fall farther and farther behind. But, if you can turn her on to good books, she will remember that.

So..Basically, you will homeschool her all summer long, make it the funnest summer ever, and hope she's ready to be a lap ahead by next year. (just the testing at Sylvann is about $90..then the hourly cost is pretty high too)

[youretooloud]

http://missmernagh.com/category/6-7-yr-olds/

http://www.dolchsightwords.org/dolch_sight_words_bingo_pre-primer.php

[DaisyMamma]

first many adults learn to read... so our brain does not stop learning

2 they will not test for a learning problem until usually 2nd grade why? because they can only do it so often and often some kids are just slow to catch on.

3 none of that means you should ignore it so make reading fun. at bedtime do you read a page I read a page. dgd loves to read that way.


we are going through this with #1 dgd expected it as ds is LD and DIL is dyslexic.... wish I was closer to help.... #2 dgd is a joy to teach it comes so easy. except she expects to be perfect all the time.

If you let her watch tv turn on the captions. It can't hurt.

True. Adults do learn to read. Having her peers so far ahead will make it more challenging, but that's ok. She'll get there.
Captions is actually not a bad idea.
But you also said something that made a light bulb go off in my head. Her father is dyslexic. I will have to bring that up when I meet with her teacher.

[NeedaVaca]

True. Adults do learn to read. Having her peers so far ahead will make it more challenging, but that's ok. She'll get there.
Captions is actually not a bad idea.
But you also said something that made a light bulb go off in my head. Her father is dyslexic. I will have to bring that up when I meet with her teacher.

Dyslexia can run in families, if she has this then it's great that it gets caught so early! If you find she does have it you want to make sure to get an IEP for her at the school. IEP will give her one on one reading time with a specialist, extra time for taking tests and other options that would benefit her

[Heidi]

Nothing else is going on. Learning to read starts in K here.
Experts say that if your child is not at the right reading Level by age 7 They will never catch up.

For example, is she is still struggling decoding words and comprehending when she is 10+ and she is required to read Charlottes Web for school, it would take her 2x as long as her peers. Or later when she is required to read Romeo & Juliet but is still at a level 2+ below her peers, it will be extremely frustrating. this sort of frustration causes Children to give up or skip assignments= bad grades, failure to go to college, etc.

I think the experts are wrong. My 2nd son didn't learn to read until the end of 2nd grade, although he his IQ is 140. He's and adult now and reads very well. The only bad thing is he never reads for pleasure because it was such an ordeal to learn.

My 2 early readers read for pleasure (they are 15 & 23). Alot. They write, too. Reading came easy to them (Kindy).

My thought is to focus more on her love of the written word...by reading to her, with lots of beautiful books, than to focus on the act of reading, kwim? Her love for learning and knowledge is what will make her sucessful later, not just being a good student.

Think of it this way. I'm not an athlete, and basketball isn't exactly my thing. If someone had drilled me endlessly as a child to teach me how to play basketball, I may have become an adequate player, but probably would have hated playing. If someone had taken me to games, explained the game to me, played in the yard with me, etc., I'd probably not only love the experience, but be a better player.

Is that a good analogy? Not sure...

[AmyLeigh]

I think the experts are wrong. My 2nd son didn't learn to read until the end of 2nd grade, although he his IQ is 140. He's and adult now and reads very well. The only bad thing is he never reads for pleasure because it was such an ordeal to learn.

My 2 early readers read for pleasure (they are 15 & 23). Alot. They write, too. Reading came easy to them (Kindy).

My thought is to focus more on her love of the written word...by reading to her, with lots of beautiful books, than to focus on the act of reading, kwim? Her love for learning and knowledge is what will make her sucessful later, not just being a good student.

Think of it this way. I'm not an athlete, and basketball isn't exactly my thing. If someone had drilled me endlessly as a child to teach me how to play basketball, I may have become an adequate player, but probably would have hated playing. If someone had taken me to games, explained the game to me, played in the yard with me, etc., I'd probably not only love the experience, but be a better player.

Is that a good analogy? Not sure...

ITA, I have one child who is a great reader, hates math because it's such a struggle. The other can do math in his sleep, but reading is a tough one for him.

Look into any possible LD's, look into the book, Better Late than Early, by Raymond Moore, read with her, and try not to stress out too much. She will get there. :hug: