Reading and Spelling

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  • July 8, 2015 at 9:33 pm
    Amy3
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    My daughter is 8 and starting 3rd grade soon. We are not new to home school but new to CM this year. She has great handwriting but has trouble with spelling and never wants to read much out loud. I have been trying to get her to read level 1 and 2 readers but struggle to get her to. I knew she could read some but wasn’t sure how well. We just got our new books for school and she picked up a chapter book, The Trumpet of The Swan and has been reading it all evening. I was completely shocked. She has never showed interest in chapter books or reading much on her own. I asked her if she seemed to understand it well and she said yes. I am just going to let her go at it since it sparked her interest. I asked her to read a paragraph to me but she won’t. She gets shy and doesn’t seem to have confidence to  read out loud. Do I just need to let up on this? I am just so curious at how well she really reads and feel I need to hear her read aloud once in awhile to know how well she is doing. But I am also just so excited she is into reading this on her own! Also, do you think this will help her spelling, reading more on her own? Thanks

    July 9, 2015 at 7:17 am
    sarah2106
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    I don’t know the exact answer, but just wanted to share a bit from personal experience. I was HSed growing up. I was a very avid reader from a young age and had great reading comprehension, but was an awful speller. I was the youngest of 4, things were busy, and once I could read my mom stopped having me read aloud. I became a very fast reader but was just skipping difficult words, I learned how to skip but get the idea so comprehension was high, but spelling low in part because I skipped the words I could not sound out. My mom had no idea for quite some time, and I did not know that what I was doing was not “correct”. My sister’s oldest (going into middle school next year) is in a similar situation. She reads book after book, but awful speller and my sister realized she was skipping difficult parts and missing a lot of the book, but since she had the “overview” my sister did not realize what was going on.

    I feel there is great value to reading aloud. My DD going into 4th grade read aloud to me often. It is a great chance to have her pause when she hits the tricky words, back up and decode them. It also makes her younger brothers happy 🙂

    If your DD is nervous about reading aloud to you, will she read to a sibling? Pet? Even stuffed animals or dolls? I often hear my DD reading aloud to her dolls with her bedroom door open.

    Often my DD will have a book she is reading to herself, and a different book that she is reading to me. I would not pressure her to read aloud, but encourage her.

    July 11, 2015 at 3:28 pm
    Amy3
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    Thanks for your suggestions! I will keep in mind what you said. That was one of my concerns, her reading over words the difficult words and I did ask her to let me know if she needs help with a big word. I don’t know why she is so shy, makes me wonder if I have had a negative effect on her from the get go. I am trying to not pressure her and am just letting her enjoy her book. She has been reading it every day and I think it makes her feel special and older. I think she wants to separate herself a little from the younger siblings. She made the comment that she has always wanted to try reading bigger “chapter” books and got tired of trying to read the shorter books. So I am hoping this will give her a little confidence and in a few weeks when we start school she will be more willing to read out loud. She is telling me some things that are happening in the book so that is a good sign. 😉

    July 11, 2015 at 3:47 pm
    Melanie32
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    I think it’s important to have children read aloud a bit every day so that you can monitor their progress and they can practice reading with feeling. 🙂 They don’t like it but they get used to it after a while.

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