J-jo is improving tremendously in his reading. He's so excited that he can read, but it takes tremendous effort on his part so sometimes he isn't keen to practice. I try to find innovative ways to entice him and on this particular day, I had misplaced the All About Reading game we were supposed to play. (I ripped out multiple pages, took them upstairs to go laminate them and inadvertently misplaced them!) I rewrote what I could see of the fluency word list from the teacher's manual onto a white board and J-jo would read, run to get blocks, then return to me to make a tower with the blocks. It was nothing major, but he thought he was playing and had tremendous fun.
Hi there. I hope your pregnancy is progressing well and that you are beginning to feel better...it sounds like from this post you are at least mobile? I want to ask if J-jo has learned to read mostly from All About Reading? We are trying to teach reading with ours using 100 easy lessons...I find it slow and not very "sticky." Any advice? I very much appreciate your blog! Hang in there, mama.
ReplyDeleteHi Colette,
ReplyDeleteJ-jo has not learned to read strictly from AAR. I started by teaching him letter sounds on my own and also via My Father's World Kindergarten (which we modified and did when he was 2.5 to 3). Then I started on the Montessori pink series for a bit, did a few lessons of AAR 1 (but he wasn't interested) and just general word and letter play. Then when he could read cvc words, he just read Bob books to me for a long time. The third big box of Bob books from Costco increases in difficulty very rapidly and he wasn't as successful. He didn't want to read the books anymore, so I went back to the AAR 1 that I had gotten to review. We skipped to where I felt he was and now I am debating buying AAR 2. I think he could just jump to 3. It is expensive though and we have lots of medical bills right now. I may just go back to The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, though it is a bit boring and tedious and I have to bribe him to do those lessons. So, if money were not an issue, I would definitely choose AAR. It works best for him.