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correcting mispronuciations during read-alouds
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When we are doing family literture, I ask the kids to each read at least one page aloud before I take over and finish the day’s reading. During this, they stumble frequently over different words they cannot pronounce. as ently as possible, i try to coorect them aas we go along. They despise this! They complain it messes up their “flow” in reading, lose their place, etc. My concern is that if I simply let them muddle through the problem words incorrectly, they will rremember them this way. Should I just lightly underline the mistakes and correct all at once at the end? BTW< they are 12 and 14; have some learning delays; but I don’t want to be too lenient either. Tips welcome!
You should wait and correct them afterwards. It just really puts a damper on the flow of the story, their comprehension while reading it, and it makes them mentally have to start over, because the story had been interrupted.
Think of it as someone constantly interrupting you in the middle of talking. You just want to give up. 😉 When I’m interrupted it’s just not worth the effort after a while and the whole story becomes unimportant.
So just make a note of the words and go over them when they’re finished.
I would keep a notebook handy and jot them down, then discuss the words afterwards. You could talk about the meaning, pronunciation, even the root of the word and how it is spelled. At the end of the week, you could make a fun game of seeing who can look at the words and pronounce the most correctly with the definition or using it in a sentence. Maybe that will take a negative into a positive for you!
Could you quickly scan the passage ahead of time and give correct pronunciations of any potential trouble words? We have problems with Bible names and I usually don’t know their correct pronunciations either. So it takes longer for me to stop to research it.
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