Learning to read was definitely The Kid's idea. And she loves her Bob
Books... most of the time. I've read many a blog post from people who
spend a week on a Bob Book, delving into the reading rules and making
whole lessons around them. That wouldn't work here. The Kid has no
patience for repetition of something she has to work for. And she
memorizes books after 2-3 readings, so it wouldn't take long before she
was reciting the book instead of reading it.
We started
Bob Books about 8 months ago. Through fits and starts, The Kid has now
read Sets 1 and 2, the Kindergarten Sight Words Set, and the new Rhyming
Words Set. She does really well with them, but gets frustrated easily.
Set 3 reportedly takes a big leap in difficulty, so we decided not to
move on quite yet.
Then the idea came to me - she
surely wouldn't remember the stories she'd read once eight months ago,
right? So we're starting over with Set 1. She is gaining some confidence
and fluency in her reading. We will work our way back through the sets
we have and then do either the First Grade Sight Words or Set 3. After
that box, we will consider looping back through again. I expect that
each loop will go faster than the first time through since she is
certainly a stronger reader now than when she started!
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