Is she learning to read?

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  • September 28, 2012 at 11:09 am
    nerakr
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    If you’ve followed my posts the last few years, you know my dd5 has a language delay. She was in speech therapy for awhile, but for the last year and a half, we’ve done almost nothing on that front. She’s improving despite that. About a week or two ago I decided to start a Word Book for her since I noticed she recognized some words and was curious as to how many. So far I’ve identified over 160, and I’m probably not finished.

    So, I’m wondering, is it possible she is teaching herself how to read? My ds8.5 did, but his language problems were of a different variety.

    September 28, 2012 at 3:16 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    It is entirely possible. My youngest who also has language delays and other developmental disorders did something similar. We worked on basic phonics and sounding out three-letter short-A words for two years (on and off) with no progress. It really put my “teach the child” conviction to the test, because she was getting close to 11 years old at the time. I finally left it alone for several weeks, then did a little sight word exercise with her, and Bang! she took off. She was reading words I had never taught her, and she’s never looked back. She just started New Friends (3rd grade Pathway Reader).

    Now, I will say that she still struggles with decoding unknown words, because she still struggles with “sounding out.” So we continue to work on that skill little by little as those words arise in her reading. And we did the Delightful Reading lessons to try to reinforce her ability to recognize known letter combinations within words, and to expand her sight words storehouse. So you may want to keep an eye on that area of being able to sound out unknown words and shore it up as needed.

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