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Learning to read
Do they teach sight words first? Learning to sound out first? At the same time? Something different?
M has actually been asking us to teach him to read, but I don't think he really gets the sounding out concept. Would it be worth him to try sight words?
He "reads" like 18 words: his name, his brother's name, his classmates' names, his teacher's names, "Mommy", "Daddy" and "Exit". He thinks he's ready to read freaking War and Peace. LOL.
Re: Learning to read
right now we are working on site words with belle.she SORTA gets sounding out. when she can't get a word i ask her to sound it out.
she's got about 120 site words she's working on. the teacher sent it home on flash cards and told us to do them in alpahabetical order (all a site words first ect)
How old is Belle again? I *think* he'll get the concept, but with M it's a balancing act between feeding his desire to learn and fearing his frustration when stuff doesn't come easy.
As mentioned above, it typically is a combination of sight words & phonics (i.e. phonemic awareness). At four, I would see what stimulates him. Does he want immediate gratification? (i.e. this word says "DOG!") or does he seem more interested in the fact that letters make words. (D says 'duh" o says "short o" g says "guh"). I wouldn't do anything like flash cards yet, unless he is the one initiating it. Labeling things would be a great precursor as well as getting him to try and write/copy words. There is a strong correlation between reading & writing fluencies.