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Lizzy


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Date: Oct 14, 2010
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supergrover wrote:

I remember learning my first words from commercials (a car commercial with Yes and No, I just kept repeating the letters).  I don't remember much else, except one night a took forever and read One Fish Two fish from cover to cover.  I was probably 6.  I wasn't an early reader, just normal for the time.  My parents never ever read to us, sort of sad in retrospect.  I do remember that twice in my school career I was bumped tracks because they assumed I didn't know things that I did.  I recall the first or second day of second grade being called to the reading table and reading without any problem.  The teacher looked shocked, pulled out something else to read and I read that as well.  The next day I was moved to a different class because I already covered most of the reading lessons.  Honestly, I came from a pretty poor background, so I think they just assumed a lot that they should not have.  I had a very similar situation in middle school.  


I do not expect Koda to read anytime soon really.  I expect much like others that he will go from nothing to reading full books in one day.  Tristen will likely read pretty soon.  He is nearly there.

aw jen...i didn't know that (it makes me sad for you)  but, i know the feeling. i was in 7th grade and without any evidence, the teacher just gave me a "C" in reading.  this was probably mid-semester, and then i took a test and scored higher than anyone else in the school.  he actually apologized - ha!

 



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apies wrote:

i taught myself to read at a young age, just like some of the kids here.

i have been told that i was reading chapter books (like little women) by the end of kindergarten.

no one taught me - my mom just realized i was reading one day.

my mom was a single mom of 3 girls ages 3 and under. she worked full time so i think i had a lot of independent time to teach myself.



yeah, this is how i was too - just figured it out. i think that's how it usually works when it clicks at a young age. i think i was 4. my sister was even younger (3 i think) which is how R has been.  C is starting to put things together now too - she knows what words start and end with.


this is amazing to me!  do you work with cara? (i just realized I called Cara "Clara" and then thought  "have I been doing that all along?" - i hope not!)

ivy is just now realizing letters make sounds....but she has come along way since starting school.  she makes little books and today, she "read" one ;) 

 

 


no, cara wont let me do ANYTHING letter-oriented with her.  i hear rachel teaching her upstairs though. rachel is such a natural at making things appealing to cara (something i suck at - lol). she plays this "muffin game" where she stacks up the magnet letters on plates and tells cara they are letter-muffins, and makes cara say "duh duh duh D" as she eats the D muffin - i never get involved bc they have such a "thing" going on with this. but i think she's learning a TON from rachel.

i really do think that early reading runs in families.
all the girls in my family (cousins and aunts too) could read before K.
(you havent been calling her clara - LOL).

 


I like rachel's thinking - awesome idea for a game to do with ivy! she has those magnet letters but they are on the fridge - i never think to take them off.  she is such a good sister heart.gif 

 



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