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!
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
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.
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:
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