"Get involved and spend some time with your children"
Posted on 07/28/2018 5:06:38 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Facts:
1. Only the parents can make a difference. Only the parents love their child. Do not rely on the schools.
2. Micromanage like heck. Know your kids abilities or lack of and work to help them. Tutors, one on ones with the teachers, (parent/teacher) etc.
3. Boys and girls learn to read and write differently. Girls learn to read and write faster than boys. Something that seems to be unknown to educators.
The public school system looks at your kids as little guinea pigs. They will experiment on them like lab mice with this goofy program and that. You have to be smart and know what is useful and what is a waste of time and fill in the gaps when important time is lost.
The key really is that each letter has a sound. I have taught children and adults to read using phonics and sounding out words.
The only issue I had teaching adults to read is there are few books that are not for small children. I taught adults to sound out words in a grocery list and wrote things myself for them to read until they could read well enough for adult material.
Good luck and don’t give up!! I have felt defeated trying to teach someone to read and all the sudden the light bulb goes on. When that light bulb goes on with letter sounds they will learn to read super fast.
yup
I could read pretty well by the time I was in the second grade. This would have been around 1953.
I would often read signs as we drove. Having learned to sound out words, I would sometimes make some pretty bad pronunciations. My parents and siblings thought it was funny.
No, that’s not it. What else should they do, and don’t say get involved and spend some time. /s
“”My kid can’t read. What should I do?”
One should have asked that question before birthing a child with bad genes.
Use the Explode the Code phonics system. Taught both my children to read by age five.
Get a copy of Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Englemann. It’s scripted for the teacher. Each lesson is about 16 minutes. He’ll be reading in no time.
“See Spot run! Run Spot run!”
Congratulations! Well done! Parents could learn from your example. :-)
I blame sight-word teaching for a common error I see, even on this forum.
People use the word “defiantly” when the correct term is “definitely.”
(Argh)
thanks Tammy, I won’t give up. We work with phonics and long vowel books right now and then we’re reading Hunger Games together. Sometimes I read to him, sometimes I have him read and to keep the flow I pronounce the words immediately that are too big for him. Just gets him familiar with reading and hearing a story.
I do feel that once they find something interesting to read it helps alot.
I know it’s insane, but how about cutting the TV. Throw it away. The internet? GONE. Take them to the library and when books are their only entertainment, you will find them devouring books.
and you dint teach him before because? what are you, illiterate or stooopid???
Beautiful opportunity for the church. Of course, we’ll screw it up and won’t do anything.
Good to see a fellow Catholic here
Genuine question: Why are these two approaches defined as being mutually exclusive? Given the oddness of much English pronunciation,it seems to me that both are necessary even if phonics provides initial building blocks and instills the notion of generalized rule formulation a la Chomsky. Idiographic languages clearly limit a phonics approach - and Chinese, Korean and Japanese students seem to manage quite well.
You’re probably the one who puts this up every year. And I usually do the same thing, say that you are half right. But many kids and newly literate adults do memorize the visuals of words and make connections with their brains that way. Two of my kids have cracked the code of reading, early, with zero phonics. One other child is already recognizing familiar words.
Phonics works better in other languages than English. It’s still important but it’s not 100% of actual learning to read. It’s more work than connecting the visual patterns of letters and words to meanings, which is instinctive and thus easy to the plastic child brain.
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