Reading

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Reading

Sara · Guru

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Sara wrote:

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

Is Bryce in 1st grade? I have lost track. Did they work with reading in Kdg?

Sara · Guru

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

Is Bryce in 1st grade? I have lost track. Did they work with reading in Kdg?

yes, bryce is in 1st grade.

they did work on reading somewhat in kindergarten.

do they have AR at your school?

Bryce started AR, Dec of his Kindergarten year. Now, I will say most of the Kindergartners do not get into AR at all and if they do it is usually late Spring (as per his K teacher last year) so he did start earlier with that, I know there was one other that started AR the same time he did. He is excelling in AR and doing great with his reading.

Juni · Guru

Um, no. He is not reading at all. He can recognize a few words here and there but I would not say he is "reading."

ETA: It doesn't concern me at all, either.

-- Edited by Juni on Thursday 21st of January 2010 09:14:28 AM

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Sara wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

Is Bryce in 1st grade? I have lost track. Did they work with reading in Kdg?

yes, bryce is in 1st grade.

they did work on reading somewhat in kindergarten.

do they have AR at your school?
Bryce started AR, Dec of his Kindergarten year. Now, I will say most of the Kindergartners do not get into AR at all and if they do it is usually late Spring (as per his K teacher last year) so he did start earlier with that, I know there was one other that started AR the same time he did. He is excelling in AR and doing great with his reading.

That is Advanced Reader group? You know, I honestly do not know. Many of the kids in the preschool here start reading at 4, so I have no real sound base of norms. I am actually meeting with the K teacher to find out what it will be like next year for Allie. Oddly enough even with working here I am not sure what is expected in Kdg. Because it is Montessori it is done a bit different then a traditional Kdg. class. They pretty much let the kids excel at their own rate. They do have just the 5's alone together in the afternoon, so I assume that is when they work on reading, etc.

It is so fun to watch though.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Juni wrote:

Um, no. He is not reading at all. He can recognize a few words here and there but I would not say he is "reading."

ETA: It doesn't concern me at all, either.

-- Edited by Juni on Thursday 21st of January 2010 09:14:28 AM

I honestly think that pushing reading and math early just makes a child hate learning. I was just wondering how many are reading.

In truth it all evens out in the end. Regardless if they start young or not.

Sara · Guru

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

Is Bryce in 1st grade? I have lost track. Did they work with reading in Kdg?

yes, bryce is in 1st grade.

they did work on reading somewhat in kindergarten.

do they have AR at your school?
Bryce started AR, Dec of his Kindergarten year. Now, I will say most of the Kindergartners do not get into AR at all and if they do it is usually late Spring (as per his K teacher last year) so he did start earlier with that, I know there was one other that started AR the same time he did. He is excelling in AR and doing great with his reading.

That is Advanced Reader group? You know, I honestly do not know. Many of the kids in the preschool here start reading at 4, so I have no real sound base of norms. I am actually meeting with the K teacher to find out what it will be like next year for Allie. Oddly enough even with working here I am not sure what is expected in Kdg. Because it is Montessori it is done a bit different then a traditional Kdg. class. They pretty much let the kids excel at their own rate. They do have just the 5's alone together in the afternoon, so I assume that is when they work on reading, etc.

It is so fun to watch though.

No, it is actually called Accelerated Reading. All kids are in AR. Just they base your level and AR goal by your reading level. For instance Bryce's AR goal this 9 week is 44. Where as some of the other kids in his class will have goals around his levels but some may only have say 20.

Here is a short description...

Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading, and it is created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are two versions: a desktop version and a web-based version in Renaissance Place, the company's web software for Accelerated Reader and a number of other software products (e.g. Accelerated Math).

I have a log in and password for him and I can track all books he reads and tests he takes to see how he does.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Sara wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sara wrote:

owen reads some words. it is nothing i actively sit and work with him on it is just stuff he has picked up on.

i did the same with bryce and his reading level is great so i have no worries about him reading once he is in school, granted he has another year and a half.

Is Bryce in 1st grade? I have lost track. Did they work with reading in Kdg?

yes, bryce is in 1st grade.

they did work on reading somewhat in kindergarten.

do they have AR at your school?
Bryce started AR, Dec of his Kindergarten year. Now, I will say most of the Kindergartners do not get into AR at all and if they do it is usually late Spring (as per his K teacher last year) so he did start earlier with that, I know there was one other that started AR the same time he did. He is excelling in AR and doing great with his reading.

That is Advanced Reader group? You know, I honestly do not know. Many of the kids in the preschool here start reading at 4, so I have no real sound base of norms. I am actually meeting with the K teacher to find out what it will be like next year for Allie. Oddly enough even with working here I am not sure what is expected in Kdg. Because it is Montessori it is done a bit different then a traditional Kdg. class. They pretty much let the kids excel at their own rate. They do have just the 5's alone together in the afternoon, so I assume that is when they work on reading, etc.

It is so fun to watch though.

No, it is actually called Accelerated Reading. All kids are in AR. Just they base your level and AR goal by your reading level. For instance Bryce's AR goal this 9 week is 44. Where as some of the other kids in his class will have goals around his levels but some may only have say 20.

Here is a short description...
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading, and it is created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are two versions: a desktop version and a web-based version in Renaissance Place, the company's web software for Accelerated Reader and a number of other software products (e.g. Accelerated Math).

I have a log in and password for him and I can track all books he reads and tests he takes to see how he does.

Interesting - I do not believe they use this.

LDSMOM · Senior Member

Brittany reads 1 word but that's only because I'm still working on teaching letter sounds. We'll be done with that in a bit over a month then I'll start teaching her how to string them together into words. Brittany is actually my latest reader. She seems to need more play than my other kids did at her age so I can't push work on her too hard. Rebecca was reading at 3 and Crystal started at 2 1/2. Brenna and Kyle both started at 4.

3s_a_crowd · Guru

kaylen can read basic words, cat hat pick kiss stuff like that. She cant read words with long vowels or double vowels n the word like beach. SHe does well with what she can though

muffy · Guru

we have a bunch of those early reading books - i read them every night with clara. plus our current fave book is chicka chicka boom boom.

she can "read" some of those books, but i am betting it is more memorising. but she is sounding out sounds with some books, so who knows?

i always have made a specific effort NOT to teach my children to read - they start kindergarden learning German, then add French a few years later - and i dont want to confuse them with attempting to teach them english as well. of course we speak english and i read to them every day... but i just have patience that the education system they are in is challenging them linguistically enough, i dont want to confuse the process.

also, if i want to teach them the letters and numbers, i need to do it in the "european" style which is very different from American (and i have to say my kids have beautiful cursive penmanship which i believe is somewhat lacking in US schools these days. - and they still have to write everything in real ink.)

sbucking · Guru

Kaylin knows all her letters and sounds (Thanks to Leapfrog.) I don't work with her on reading. I figure it'll come soon enough once she starts school.

I really don't do anything academic at home unless they ask, as I figure they have 13 years of school!

mctex · Guru

Alexandra can read short, basic words pretty well, and sounds out longer stuff (with only marginal success, LOL).

I know it's something more than sight word recognition (I know this because she reads things that she's never seen before), but I don't really know where it ends.

Other than the Meet-the-Letters/Sight Words videos and reading to her on a regular basis, we've done absolutely nothing to make this happen. (I don't want to rush it, either -- but it's 100% driven by her.) She does have the Tag reader system, which she plays with somewhat, but I'm not really sure where she's getting it.

That said, I learned to read at about the same age, so it's not terribly shocking. So if she follows in my footsteps, it's math I need to worry about... LOL!

Alison · Guru

muffy wrote:

we have a bunch of those early reading books - i read them every night with clara. plus our current fave book is chicka chicka boom boom.

she can "read" some of those books, but i am betting it is more memorising. but she is sounding out sounds with some books, so who knows?

i always have made a specific effort NOT to teach my children to read - they start kindergarden learning German, then add French a few years later - and i dont want to confuse them with attempting to teach them english as well. of course we speak english and i read to them every day... but i just have patience that the education system they are in is challenging them linguistically enough, i dont want to confuse the process.

also, if i want to teach them the letters and numbers, i need to do it in the "european" style which is very different from American (and i have to say my kids have beautiful cursive penmanship which i believe is somewhat lacking in US schools these days. - and they still have to write everything in real ink.)

That's Mason's favorite book too! We got him the book with CD for Christmas (read by Ray Charles!) and he listens to it every night, plus he makes us read the book to him at least once a day. He can pretty much recite it by heart now!

But he's definitely not reading. We work on sounding out words together, but I'm not too worried about it yet because he still has another year before kindergarten. I was apparently an early reader (3 1/2), but I think once he gets it, he's going to be a voracious reader like John and me. He's been sleeping with books in his bed since he was a baby, LOL, so the love of books is already there. But like everything else he does, he's probably going to wait until he is ready to master reading before he even starts. *eyeroll*a

Skit skat skoodle doot! Flip flop flee!

CoffeeQueen · Guru

mctex wrote:

Alexandra can read short, basic words pretty well, and sounds out longer stuff (with only marginal success, LOL).

I know it's something more than sight word recognition (I know this because she reads things that she's never seen before), but I don't really know where it ends.

Other than the Meet-the-Letters/Sight Words videos and reading to her on a regular basis, we've done absolutely nothing to make this happen. (I don't want to rush it, either -- but it's 100% driven by her.) She does have the Tag reader system, which she plays with somewhat, but I'm not really sure where she's getting it.

That said, I learned to read at about the same age, so it's not terribly shocking. So if she follows in my footsteps, it's math I need to worry about... LOL!

I have no idea when I started to read. I will have to ask my Mom. Rich will be doing all the math in our house.

I actually should say that at this age they consider it more decoding then reading. In Allie's preschool they do not refer to it as reading.

I use to think Allie memorized things too, but not till recently did I have full proof that it was reading. She started bringing home little readers from school and would read them to me. I then knew it was not by memory. She knows most of our books at home, so I use to write it off to that. I now actually see her sound words out and string them together.

Sonya · Guru

Charlie can sound out lots of simple words and knows his sight words from meet the sight words.

We havent' been working on it at all but he knows all his sounds from the leapfrog letters.

CoffeeQueen · Guru

Sonya wrote:

Charlie can sound out lots of simple words and knows his sight words from meet the sight words.

We havent' been working on it at all but he knows all his sounds from the leapfrog letters.

I was talking to a Canadian friend and not sure if this is the same now, but when her girls went to school (they are 20's now) they did not even start teaching to read till 1st grade. They were very oral based in preschool with songs and such. Is it still like that or has it changed?

I love hearing different teaching styles and philosophy of it.

Sonya · Guru

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sonya wrote:

Charlie can sound out lots of simple words and knows his sight words from meet the sight words.

We havent' been working on it at all but he knows all his sounds from the leapfrog letters.

I was talking to a Canadian friend and not sure if this is the same now, but when her girls went to school (they are 20's now) they did not even start teaching to read till 1st grade. They were very oral based in preschool with songs and such. Is it still like that or has it changed?

I love hearing different teaching styles and philosophy of it.

Sounds like something I should know. lmao.

I have no idea.

His daycare certainly doesn't work on it. I'll ask my teacher friends.

I know when I went to school, I was ready Bobbsey Twin books in first grade so I must have learned before that.

Alison · Guru

Sonya wrote:

CoffeeQueen wrote:

Sonya wrote:

Charlie can sound out lots of simple words and knows his sight words from meet the sight words.

We havent' been working on it at all but he knows all his sounds from the leapfrog letters.

I was talking to a Canadian friend and not sure if this is the same now, but when her girls went to school (they are 20's now) they did not even start teaching to read till 1st grade. They were very oral based in preschool with songs and such. Is it still like that or has it changed?

I love hearing different teaching styles and philosophy of it.

Sounds like something I should know. lmao.

I have no idea.

His daycare certainly doesn't work on it. I'll ask my teacher friends.

I know when I went to school, I was ready Bobbsey Twin books in first grade so I must have learned before that.

My mom brought me like 6 Bobbsey Twins books that I read when I was little, that were actually hers when she was little, so they are super old. I can't wait to read them with Mason (and laugh about how dated they are, LOL!).