Monday, October 21, 2013

teach your kid to read in 100 lessons

My sister recommended this book (teach your kid to read).  It really works.  Anna has known all her letter sounds for over a year.  She could see words, but couldn't  blend the sounds together.  Now she blends and reads!  We are on lesson 30 something.  It's pretty cool!  Anna wanted to read and now she can.  This girl wakes up and first thing she says is "mom, can we do my reading lesson?"  Seriously.  What a nerd.  I can't lie, I look forward to doing this with her everyday too.  She sure gets frustrated though (as you can see in the video!)  But I think it's good to teach her how to deal with that too.  Any suggestions?  I'm not so good at dealing with frustration myself!  All I tell her is to keep trying, because that's what I do - and sometimes we just stop and try again tomorrow.

We had a breakthrough with Julia today.  She is a distraction during anna's reading lesson.  So I started giving her room time.  She doesn't love playing alone.  But today she actually played by herself during room time.  I was so relieved and pleased.

5 comments:

Joy said...

Go Anna!! Go Julia!!

Emily said...

I just checked this book out from the library yesterday! This post makes me excited to get started!

Also, I've been such a lazy blog reader with the no comments. Love your blog still, though. Also, that backpacking trip you went on looked AMAZING. I told Nathan about it and he was sooo jealous. We're are dying to do something like that together.

Unknown said...

That was awesome, very impressive!! How old is that big girl? 5? 8? 14??? Growing up fast :)

Trina said...

What a good little reader!!! Impressive!!!

Kristin said...

Holy moly! She's doing SOOO great! I've never even heard of that book, but it sounds awesome. Spencer would have never done something like that for me though. :) It's impressive that she keeps going even though she gets frustrated. I'd say that as long as she wants to keep going, the frustration is ok. If she wants to take a break after a few lines though, I'd let her. That is some hard stuff for such a little brain. Go Anna (and Mommy)!