kristins_mom
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Re : Concerns on Reading / Writing
I'd like to do a poll on whose kids can read and write.... can kindly help?
ky: Benedict's starting to know phonics. can't read. Starts to write but need tracing, and wobbly if without.
Apricot: Aston can write better with tracing on small caps letters, big caps letters, numerals and yi to shi and his English name. Without tracing, still can recognise what the words are but as you says they will be wobbly.
He can't read now but enjoy me reading to him. He recognise pics more than words when both are side by side.
Becos he recognise nos, he was able to do the joining dots exercises quite quickly.
Abt phonics, he knows the sounds of the letters and able to read them out last year. He practices with my nephew quite often recently.
Worry Mum: Benjamin can write pretty well without tracing, just that the letters are uneven. Thanks to Leapfrog DVD, he got all the phonics there and too with the help of the PAP-PCF teacher. He can read those sight words reader book on his own.
Moshi:
Mel can't write without guided dots.
Reads a paragraph of 50 words easily, did Ladybird Peter and Jane series with her when she was 1.5yo. picked up pretty fast from then.
For phonics, made her memorise consonant sounds, she attempts blending on her own when she encounters new words.
Each child progresses at his own rate, that's what individuality is all about, ky, ben is doing fine. Try letting him memorise the sounds like the way he memorises the letters of the alphabet?
K's mom: Bryan can write his name without tracing as of March this year. But what frustrated me then was that I've been teaching him to write in caps, while his teacher is doing it in small. Anyway, all for the better now.
He recognises the alphabet now with ease and the letter sounds too. But he needs encouragement to really transfer his knowledge.
E.g. I was doing some word families with him yesterday, he appeared to be reading some words. But I'm skeptical if he'll read on his own.
Picture/word 1-1: He picture reads most of the time. I always wonder what would happen if I were to take all those pictures away/ cover them up? These days, I have been pointing him to the words and ask him how they are being spelled. But lazy as we are, we don't do that when Mommy reads aloud.
Bryan is brilliant with rhyming. In fact, this is how he remembers most part of the stories. e.g. farm-charm, spring-wing, galore-before, home-alone, celebration-hesitation, nest-best, faces-places etc. These days, he's been volunteering me info on what letter a word begins with. I guess that's a start in linking up letters to sounds, sounds to words... ok, surely and slowly, we are going somewhere.
But if you'll ask me whether he reads and writes, I consider him far from that.
I'd like to do a poll on whose kids can read and write.... can kindly help?
ky: Benedict's starting to know phonics. can't read. Starts to write but need tracing, and wobbly if without.
Apricot: Aston can write better with tracing on small caps letters, big caps letters, numerals and yi to shi and his English name. Without tracing, still can recognise what the words are but as you says they will be wobbly.
He can't read now but enjoy me reading to him. He recognise pics more than words when both are side by side.
Becos he recognise nos, he was able to do the joining dots exercises quite quickly.
Abt phonics, he knows the sounds of the letters and able to read them out last year. He practices with my nephew quite often recently.
Worry Mum: Benjamin can write pretty well without tracing, just that the letters are uneven. Thanks to Leapfrog DVD, he got all the phonics there and too with the help of the PAP-PCF teacher. He can read those sight words reader book on his own.
Moshi:
Mel can't write without guided dots.
Reads a paragraph of 50 words easily, did Ladybird Peter and Jane series with her when she was 1.5yo. picked up pretty fast from then.
For phonics, made her memorise consonant sounds, she attempts blending on her own when she encounters new words.
Each child progresses at his own rate, that's what individuality is all about, ky, ben is doing fine. Try letting him memorise the sounds like the way he memorises the letters of the alphabet?
K's mom: Bryan can write his name without tracing as of March this year. But what frustrated me then was that I've been teaching him to write in caps, while his teacher is doing it in small. Anyway, all for the better now.
He recognises the alphabet now with ease and the letter sounds too. But he needs encouragement to really transfer his knowledge.
E.g. I was doing some word families with him yesterday, he appeared to be reading some words. But I'm skeptical if he'll read on his own.
Picture/word 1-1: He picture reads most of the time. I always wonder what would happen if I were to take all those pictures away/ cover them up? These days, I have been pointing him to the words and ask him how they are being spelled. But lazy as we are, we don't do that when Mommy reads aloud.
Bryan is brilliant with rhyming. In fact, this is how he remembers most part of the stories. e.g. farm-charm, spring-wing, galore-before, home-alone, celebration-hesitation, nest-best, faces-places etc. These days, he's been volunteering me info on what letter a word begins with. I guess that's a start in linking up letters to sounds, sounds to words... ok, surely and slowly, we are going somewhere.
But if you'll ask me whether he reads and writes, I consider him far from that.
