Bob Books With an Impatient Reader

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!

Hello!

Hi! I'm Jackie. I live with my husband and daughter in Indiana. I last updated this "about me" page in February 2015.

My daughter is a wonderful, precocious four year old. Here she is:

You know all those cute pseudonyms people give their children online? Yeah, I couldn't come up with one. She's therefore just known as The Kid.

And here's me:

I recently left work to stay home full time with The Kid. My husband and I decided a while back that we will homeschool. We started out with preschool activities when she asked to learn how to read. When she turned 4 and several of her friends were getting ready to enter kindergarten, she announced she was starting kindergarten as well. We went along with that and are well into her kindergarten year now.