Now..My daughter

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mrsrandolph
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Now..My daughter

Post by mrsrandolph » 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?
Shannon Randolph LOVING HOD & Running 4 Guides & DITHOR
Mommy to 4 Precious Blessings
Cassie (15- World Geography),
Will (14- Rev2Rev,
Ellie (12- Res2Ref), and
Jack (10- CTC)

lissiejo
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Re: Now..My daughter

Post by lissiejo » Sun May 20, 2012 12:29 pm

My daughter does that a lot. I just say something like, "double check that word again," so she'll go back and really look at it. Even though she is almost always in context with her guessed word there is a chance one day she may not be. I don't do this when she's reading on her own, just during "school" time.
Melissa (Pastor's wife in NC)

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my3sons
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Re: Now..My daughter

Post by my3sons » Tue May 22, 2012 10:06 am

lissiejo wrote:My daughter does that a lot. I just say something like, "double check that word again," so she'll go back and really look at it. Even though she is almost always in context with her guessed word there is a chance one day she may not be. I don't do this when she's reading on her own, just during "school" time.
This is what we do as well - it works! :D
In Christ,
Julie
Enjoyed LHTH to USII
Currently using USI
Wife to Rich for 28 years
Mother to 3 sons, ages 23, 20, and 16
Sister to Carrie

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