Now..My daughter
Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:26 am
OK...It is me the reading specialist again (ha ha).
My daughter is 9. She will be 10 in August. She devours chapter books even on the level of Nancy Drew. I will think that there is no way she has finished the drew book so quickly, but she is able to tell me all it was about in great detail.
I have kept her in the emerging readers package on her insistence that she wants to finish all the books in there. She is about through them. I have her do 2 lessons at a time.
My concern with her is that she often/sometimes says words other than what is on the printed page, but what she says is ALWAYS in context with the passage as if it could actually be part of the story. The only problem is, when she does this, she is not reading the printed words.
When she does this, should I have her go back and re-read what is actually there, or forget about it?
As adults, I realize that we have no idea how often we are doing this ourselves in our silent reading. When we catch ourselves as adults doing this, and it's not in context, we go back and self correct. My daughter also self-corrects if something she says doesn't make sense.
Thoughts?
My daughter is 9. She will be 10 in August. She devours chapter books even on the level of Nancy Drew. I will think that there is no way she has finished the drew book so quickly, but she is able to tell me all it was about in great detail.
I have kept her in the emerging readers package on her insistence that she wants to finish all the books in there. She is about through them. I have her do 2 lessons at a time.
My concern with her is that she often/sometimes says words other than what is on the printed page, but what she says is ALWAYS in context with the passage as if it could actually be part of the story. The only problem is, when she does this, she is not reading the printed words.
When she does this, should I have her go back and re-read what is actually there, or forget about it?
As adults, I realize that we have no idea how often we are doing this ourselves in our silent reading. When we catch ourselves as adults doing this, and it's not in context, we go back and self correct. My daughter also self-corrects if something she says doesn't make sense.
Thoughts?
