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I have just begun the actual reading lessons in Delightful Reading with my 7 year old son. When we started word-building with rain (lain, Cain, main, stain, etc.) he did great and remembered them at the end of the lesson. However, after several days of continuing this exercise with the other words in the sentence, he wasn’t able to easily read the words that we had made. I didn’t want to go too fast for him, so the first day we did ‘rain’ word-building, then the next day we did ‘falling’ and ‘is’ world-building, and so on. However, after several days, he really had a hard time reading the words that we had built the previous days. Thus, I am not sure what I should be doing or am I doing something wrong? I didn’t think I should just add them to his word notebook and continue on since he didn’t seem that familiar with them. I had to give him lots of guidance to read them. Should he be able to read the extra sentences on page 4 of his Delightful Reader before moving forward? If I go slower, it seems we could only build one new word from ‘rain’ a day and so forth, which would seem to take a very very long time to get through the first lesson. I would love to have some guidance from all of you that have taught your little ones to read!
We have used DR with two of our kids. After we learned a new word, I would always record it in their word books and then we just made sure to review those words almost daily or before we would do a new lesson.
Did you do the “pre-reading” lessons in the DR book – the ones that go over basic phonics?
I did do the ‘pre-reading’ lessons and felt that he was ready to move on from what I understood. I guess I just don’t know what pace to go at or how much to expect him to be retaining when we try learn several new words a day. How many new words did you learn a day? When you were word-building with ‘rain,’ how many words did you do? Did you just work on word-building with ‘rain’ or did you word-build with the other words also? At the end of this lesson did you add the words to the word notebook? Thanks for your time!
Hey! I just saw on another DR post that SCM is coming out with 3 separate kits for the 3 different stages of reading!
Things worked best when I set a timer for about 10 -15 minutes and then we just stopped wherever we were, and that was it. The next day, we just picked back up where we left off – super simple! You can set a timer and as long as your child is giving his full attention, then the timer keeps going but if his mind starts to wander, then you can stop the timer. This can really help with developing the habit of full attention during lessons.
So I tried to focus on the amount of time spent instead of the amount of curriculum covered. Every child is different! Hope this is helpful!
I also saw that about the DR separate kits! I am excited to get them for my next ones!
We have been setting a timer, but I found that during 15 minutes, we could cover several new words and he would do great reading them during that lesson. However, the following day he couldn’t remember most of them and so we would have to start over again. Does that make sense?
Hmmm- I would probably just keep reviewing. I am pretty sure that with my son I had to do a lot of reviewing with him but he did finally get it. My girls learned to read much faster.
I would, however, move on to the next lesson and just keep reviewing the old words. Does that answer your quesiton?
Thanks! It is helpful to hear from others that have already done it. I didn’t really feel intimidated to teach him to read, but these recent struggles make me wonder if I should be doing something different.
I would echo the others in saying to just keep on reviewing. I’m not personally using DR, but with teaching my most recent new readers, I’ve learned that the “Learn it, forget it, learn it, forget it, learn it, I got it!” concept definitely applies. Just keep moving forward and look for organic ways to review the words too, throughout the day. That’s helped us. LOTS of review and realizing that slow progress is still progress; and it adds up as the year passes, until one day, you realize they are reading! 🙂
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