Why, oh, why does teaching reading have to be so difficult? I know this is a rhetorical question, but, honestly, I don’t remember it being this hard when I learned to read! Ha, ha! I have many questions about teaching reading. Such, as:
- Why does my son look at me when he is reading? Are the words written on my forehead?
- Why does the same boy look at the first letter in a word and then proceed to guess what the word is-ex., the word “bad” is read “bbbbb-at”, “bat”. Noooooo, that is not the word.
- Why does he wait for me to sound out the word for him, when I know with certainty that he knows all the sounds of all the letters in the alphabet. (I think.)
These are just a few questions that I am trying to answer for myself. Really, I do NOT want you all to answer them for me. I know that teaching someone to read is not easy. I did it in a public school classroom for 7 years. But, thank God, the kindergarten teachers in public schools have self-inflicted goals to teach kindergarteners to read. This always made my job as a 1st grade teacher quite simple. Yet, now I have the burden of figuring out how they did it! Pray for me.
On a side note, he loves making words with his magnetic letters. He used three of his sight words and his name to make this sentence. I don’t think he knows that he made a sentence, but maybe he knows more than he wants me to know!
LOL, make life easier on yourself. Send him to school. Kids are always better away from their parents.
On the other hand, you are doing a great job!!
I actually am loving home school right now and he is doing wonderful. We start between 8:30 and 9:00 every morning and are usually finished by 1:00 or 1:30. We take Thursdays off because I work and then we only do about 2 hours worth of work on Fridays. He is pretty easy to work with considering that he is my own child.