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Question For Anyone using Delightful Reading
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One last question! Hopefully I can bless others with answers to thier questions once I get all this figured out. 🙂
For those of you that are using or have used DR, can you explain how basic phonics are included in the program? I have used an intensive phonics program for the first two kids and am thinking about taking the plunge and trying something more CM. The program we are using now includes over 50 phonemes to be learned so it is very intensive phonics!
I am having trouble visualizing how a child would even know how to read a word like “around” or “twinkle” without first telling him the sounds that these letters make. Where does that come into the lessons. I did not see it but maybe it is there?
Alicia, I was waiting for someone else to comment since I have also been trying to figure this out. I used Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons for my other son, and now I’m trying to decide what to do. I also was hoping to do something a little more CM.
In the teacher book of DR it is divided into Early Stages of Reading and Reading Lessons. It seems to me that phonics is kind of covered in that first section under the Preschool/ Kindergarten stage, before the actual Reading Lessons start. It has word building with short vowels, then long vowels, then blends, etc. The last sentence of that chapter reads, “Remember the goal of these lessons” (meaning the Early Stages lessons): ” that “words are no longer unfamiliar, perplexing objects, when a child meets them in a line of print.” In other words, it is just word building practice before starting the reader.
Then after you have completed all of that is when you actually start on the word notebook and the Delightful Reader and the actual reading lessons that make up Delightful Reading.
For me it is confusing because my son is six and hasn’t really started learning a lot. He has struggled with remembering and recognizing his letters and numbers when we worked on it last year. So I’m needing to start with him in what is labeled the Baby/ Toddler stage in the book. 🙁 It makes me feel like we are really behind, but I’m really not worried. He is a very busy boy who doesn’t enjoy sitting still. I’m sure he’ll be fine, but I realized I needed to start at the very beginning instead of jumping in to what I thought that Delightful Reading was supposed to be.
I hope this will help you. Maybe someone else will send us more advice.
Yolie
Well, I am really, really glad to know that I am not the only one a little confused. I want to teach reading in a more CM style but am struggling, I guess, with the paradigm shift.
I used intensive phonics with my first two who are 8 and 10 now. The more I think about it, the more I am starting to see that all the phonemes and phonics rules, which we spent quite a bit of time memorizing, were really not what taught them to read. They cannot remember all the rules even now and yet apply them to what they read subconciously. It is actually a very interesting process to watch. I am fairly certain that they learned all these rules, or guidelines, as Sonya calls them just on thier own.
If I ask my 10 yr old what are all the sounds that “ea” can make. She remembers sometimes and sometimes not, but she can read all kinds of word that have “ea” in them.
Also,I think that we came to the same conclusion on where phonics is covered in DR. I did finally figure out that just basic phonics, which I think includes just learniong the most common sound for each letter, is covered in the Pre-School/Kindergarten stage, like you said.
Our next child is a 5 1/2 year old boy and also does not enjoy sitting still for too long. I cannot imagine him usig the same program that my first two dd’s used! I am probably going to gradually start the early stuff with him this year. I think that DR is a better fit for him and it seems to make a lot of sense!
God bless!
I used a different program for my two older children (middle reads better than the oldest, but I think that’s just how they’re wired). I’m using DR with my youngest. He is 6 and we had to start with the very basics as I realized he did not know the basic sounds the letters represent. We didn’t do that many lessons for that many weeks before he was able to read from the First Step book from Pathway. (We did start DR quite awhile ago, but had to set it aside as he was not ready, picked it back up and have slowly gone through the first 5 lessons or so.) He is slowly progressing and after a break for summer, we will get back to DR lessons tomorrow, hopefully. He is rather active and doesn’t “sit” as well at the table/couch/chair/floor as my older two.
The other program was great, but DR is definitely more gentle, and even though it uses poetry, is a much better fit for him. Plus, I gave most of my supplies for the other program away so I can’t use it anyway, ha.
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