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so, wait a minute... do you drive of fly an airplane?
what about a boat? do you swim it?
that's it, my English is stretched to its limits...Comment
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Reminds me of the oddity in our language...
Why is it that when you transport something by car it is called a shipment and when you transport something by ship it is called cargo?
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Oh my God. My SIL does this. She is very spoiled and self centered. Doesn't want kids, never really comes by to see her niece & nephew..they don't even remember her name most of the time..never comes to bday parties, etc. She went back to school to get a teaching degree, and started talking about 'her kids' and the stuff she was learning in school. Most of the stuff I was like, well yeah, duh. She was studying about linguistics and how children learn, etc.. Started offering me advice. I was like, "Uh...thx, but you've been a teacher for 2 months. You never even babysat as a teen." I don't even think she's changed a diaper, even though she has a younger sister. "I've had a daycare, babysat, and oh yeah...been a parent for 23 years. I have 4 kids." She says, "I know. I have 20 though." I just laughed. Her 20 kids go home to their house at 3 oclock. No sitting up with sick kids or making dinners or wiping butts for her. But somehow, she was an expert.Comment
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I dunno, maybe her classes are stronger, but I had the language and literacy class over the summer, and I cannot teach my own 4-year-old to read! not because she doesn't want to, but because I don't know how because they don't teach that in college! I'm seriously annoyed. seriously. this education costs me all that it costs (no financial aid, no loans, one measly AmeriCorps grant that covers half a semester), and I take so little knowledge out of it, it's laughable. :dislike:
btw, anyone knows a good technique on teaching a preschooler to read? we read books, and she memorizes the text on each page and then "reads" them to me (Piggy and Elephant series works best at that), and she really wants to read when I'm busy, and I would love to help her, but don't know how. I got the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, but still wrapping my own head around it.Comment
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Well Mad Pistachio, honestly every ECE class I have ever taken has repeatedly driven home the point that it is better not to teach reading in the early years. I didn't teach my oldest son. And, when he started reading in Kindergarten, he did great. I haven't taught my younger son and he is learning letters and asking how to spell words or what are some words he sees. It is always advised to simply read to your child and have a "print rich environment" meaning they will see words here and there. As a teacher, I have taught kids to read. There are many ways. Teaching letters, the sounds they make, how to slur them together, how to sound out words, beginning sounds and end sounds, sight words, rules for vowels, etc. I feel like the kids are best served by playing now and learning to read when they're older. But, there are many opinions!Comment
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Same thing, I get it. But she is showing interest in independent reading. Runs in the family: I learned to read at 4, my mom at 5, and my husband at 5. I feel like a parent of a child who's ready yo use a bathroom, and I have no clue how to lead the process. This age, between 5 and 8, is that border line when some still play, alnd some want to move on to more academic stuff. I am in no way pushing her to read, but I don't know how to support her emerging interest.Comment
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Oh, she recognizes letters, alright. I'll play with sounds. I know they learn single sounds in daycare, so I guess I'll start with single sounds to get a feeling of where she's comfortable and go from there.
Memorizing is the reason I didn't enroll her in Kumon. And the cost and mean teachers.Comment
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My son was very interested in learning to read when he was late 3's and we just sat and read books any chance I had. He read by himself shortly after he turned 4. Everywhere we went, we'd talk about letters and he'd ask "what's that word?" I am fairly certain he memorized whatever word he asked about once he got going, so I'm not sure why some of you say that you are against memorizing words. We have several of the huge Richard Scarry books that are basically pictures with words beside them and he LOVED those.
I had no idea how to teach him, but he had it in him to learn how and he did. Unfortunately, his K teacher did not know what to do with him because he read 2nd grade level books by the time he got to her so when she listened to the other students read, she never listened to him, which made him sad. I pointed it out to her several times, but she still never listened to him...and what really made him sad was that all the other kids got a reward for reading to her and he didn't get one because she never listened to him.
Fast forward to 2nd grade...he tested at a 12th grade reading level because this kid devours books like candy. They still had no idea what to do with him. They let him do 4th grade reading, which he also did in 1st grade, but then said he'd pretty much have to continue to do 4th grade reading because anything further out than that would put him too far ahead of the other students...and they just wanted to get him leveled out with the rest of his grade. Needless to say, I took him out of that school and switched him to a larger school where the teachers grouped the students by abilities. It was also very tricky to find age appropriate books for a 2nd grader who could read at 12th grade level so he spent several years just reading non-fiction and anything I had read as a child.
So....long story short...be careful what you wish for and know what you are getting into with an early reader. Everyone always said "oh such a problem to have" but it was NOT an easy time! I wouldn't change what I did on my part as far as letting him learn as much as he could, but I just wanted to warn you what you could be in for later on when she gets to school. If I could do that part over, I would've changed schools sooner and bumped him up a grade at the same time. Thankfully, he is now a junior in high school and has amazing teachers who "get" him and know how to challenge him and keep him interested. He's captain of his quiz bowl team, so all the years of non-fiction reading are serving him well. I'm very proud of him, but when I read about others with little readers I have to tell his story so you are aware of what you may be up against later. Definitely let her learn to read if she wants to, but don't force it. And if she does learn before K, make extra sure you are vigilant about what the teachers are doing to serve her needs. Good luck!!Comment
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There is a big difference between a preschool age child learning to read because they have such a high interest in words and books, and teaching preschool age children to read. One is student led and one is teacher led. A child asking what a word is, and you telling them, is vastly different than, for example, holding up flash cards for all of the children to memorize. A print rich environment, as suggested above, leads children who are ready to read without pressuring children who are not ready. Studies have shown that formal reading instruction before the first grade leads to an increase in learning disabilities, but the schools are still pushing those little kindergarteners, and now preschoolers, to get it together and read already.
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a story of my life. learning to read early, I started school when I was 7, and for the first 2-3 years, I was sitting out the readig lessons because I was so far advanced. didn't bother me one bit, by the way: I just brought my own books and quietly read them in class (and aloud to classmates at recess).My son was very interested in learning to read when he was late 3's and we just sat and read books any chance I had. He read by himself shortly after he turned 4. Everywhere we went, we'd talk about letters and he'd ask "what's that word?" I am fairly certain he memorized whatever word he asked about once he got going, so I'm not sure why some of you say that you are against memorizing words. We have several of the huge Richard Scarry books that are basically pictures with words beside them and he LOVED those.
I had no idea how to teach him, but he had it in him to learn how and he did. Unfortunately, his K teacher did not know what to do with him because he read 2nd grade level books by the time he got to her so when she listened to the other students read, she never listened to him, which made him sad. I pointed it out to her several times, but she still never listened to him...and what really made him sad was that all the other kids got a reward for reading to her and he didn't get one because she never listened to him.
Fast forward to 2nd grade...he tested at a 12th grade reading level because this kid devours books like candy. They still had no idea what to do with him. They let him do 4th grade reading, which he also did in 1st grade, but then said he'd pretty much have to continue to do 4th grade reading because anything further out than that would put him too far ahead of the other students...and they just wanted to get him leveled out with the rest of his grade. Needless to say, I took him out of that school and switched him to a larger school where the teachers grouped the students by abilities. It was also very tricky to find age appropriate books for a 2nd grader who could read at 12th grade level so he spent several years just reading non-fiction and anything I had read as a child.
So....long story short...be careful what you wish for and know what you are getting into with an early reader. Everyone always said "oh such a problem to have" but it was NOT an easy time! I wouldn't change what I did on my part as far as letting him learn as much as he could, but I just wanted to warn you what you could be in for later on when she gets to school. If I could do that part over, I would've changed schools sooner and bumped him up a grade at the same time. Thankfully, he is now a junior in high school and has amazing teachers who "get" him and know how to challenge him and keep him interested. He's captain of his quiz bowl team, so all the years of non-fiction reading are serving him well. I'm very proud of him, but when I read about others with little readers I have to tell his story so you are aware of what you may be up against later. Definitely let her learn to read if she wants to, but don't force it. And if she does learn before K, make extra sure you are vigilant about what the teachers are doing to serve her needs. Good luck!!
if she does start reading early, and a teacher has a problem with it, I have a nice choice of schools that are closer by and dying to get a bilingual child in their classrooms for promoting diversity, so I won't hesitate pulling if that's what it takes.
as for books... again, we are bilingual, and when the time comes, I may have to teach her reading in my language. the choice of books will double instantly.Comment
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