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My almost 7 year old has completed Sing Spell Read Write along with the Pathway readers from the first year, and is easily reading the pathway readers from the 2nd and 3rd year. Do I need to continue to sit and listen to her read them? Or can I just let her read them as pleasure reading. She likes to read aloud and will often pick up half way through a poem that I am reading to her or a history book or whatever. I have another beginning reader and would like to avoid the 15 minutes of out loud reader reading with the older one if it’s ok to drop it… advice?
Thanks!
Rebekah
Great question! Wondering when to stop reading aloud as well. My oldest is about to finish Pathway Readers for 2nd grade, and I am curious if she still needs to read to me daily, or can we do it once a week/month? Thanks for starting this thread, Rebekah.
My almost-8yo dd has been reading them on her own. She is in the Grade 3 readers, and they are easy, she says. I don’t require narrations from her for these – she narrated the first few chapters just so I could make sure they weren’t too difficult, but then she was on her own. They are just free reading (that she has to do LOL). But she reads *constantly* on her own anyway, even 4th/5th grade level books, so we are done after this book (I can’t decide if she likes them or just reads them because she has to). I’d say, as long as your dd likes the stories, she can read them on her own time, otherwise, if they’re getting pretty easy for her, let her quit if she doesn’t really like them.
I had my oldest daughter stop reading aloud when she could read easily enough and didn’t require much help with words and such. She still reads them because she likes them and I do have her narrate them (2nd grade) but she reads other books when I’m not home that she doesn’t have to narrate.
I do have her read aloud to me occasionlly just to see if she needs any help with words though. (Like every other week).
Same here as Kristen – dd stopped reading aloud when I stopped having to help her with words. I don’t have her read out loud to me at all just because she’s also reading books all on her own (unassigned) that are a little higher level than her current Pathway book, and since she is enjoying them (and occasionally acting them out), I figure she must get it and be OK. I do tell her to ask for help with any bigger words, and she does, but they are actually quite big words or ones that don’t follow the “rules.”
My dd10 has been reading fluently since she was eight. She can read anything I put before her now. Currently she’s reading to herself, Anne of Green Gables, Adam of the Road, Marco Polo, the Bible, Bambi (when she can get it to read ahead of our family read aloud).
Now, I still have her read aloud once per week for elocution. According to Webster’s 1828 dictionary, elocution is:
ELOCU’TION, n. [L. elocutio, from eloquor; e and loquor, to speak.]
1. Pronunciation; the utterance or delivery of words, particularly in public discourses and arguments. We say of elocution, it is good or bad; clear, fluent or melodious.
Elocution, which anciently embraced style and the whole art of rhetoric, now signifies manner of delivery.
2. In rhetoric, elocution consists of elegance, composition and dignity; and Dryden uses the word as nearly synonymous with eloquence, the act of expressing thoughts with elegance or beauty.
3. Speech; the power of speaking.
Whose taste–gave elocution to the mute.
4. In ancient treatises on oratory, the wording of a discourse; the choice and order of words; composition; the act of framing a writing or discourse.
I want her to be very confident in her ability to speak or read before others and this is a simple way to practice part of this discipline.
~ Christie
Thanks for all the great advice! Christie – I definitely agree that I want her to continue to read out loud so that she’s confident in reading and speaking before others, I may just have her read some of the family readings for history or poetry since she’s fluent enough at this point to do a good job with it.
She loves the pathway readers, so I may just assign those as a little enjoyable independent reading time when I’m working with one of the younger girls… or perhaps she can read the stories aloud to one of the younger ones while I’m working with the other one.
Thanks!!!
Rebekah
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