I feel like we are behind-we seemed to have lost some days somewhere :?: Ahhh..summer
Remembering the sentences for dictation is quickly improving. As a parent, it is soooo nice to have such an obvious indicator of improvement!
The nonsense words are a huge help. He HAS to decode instead of guess. It has actually slowed his reading down(for MY kid, this is GOOD-he races and guesses)
The reading program has a lot of errors and it can get annoying. There are exercises we have to skip. Unless someone can tell me how to unscramble “He hand his he” into a sentence???
I feel like the reading in the ‘means to an end readers’ is far easier than the corresponding exercises in the workbook. But perhaps that is my childs weaknesses showing. And the dictation and turning fragments into sentences has been challenging for him(those are in the readers, not the workbook)
He does well with the block exercises but struggles with certain workbook formats
The worst for him :
Page has nos 1-16 vertically on the page. Next to each number is written 1st 2nd 3rd. I say three words-at ap up. He is to circle ‘1st’ to indicate that it ends differently than the others. Then we go to #2 which is, tar fur far-he is to circle ‘2nd’ for ‘fur’
This is very difficult for him. I believe he hears the difference, but the multisteps involved in the process are close to overwhelming. If he were not doing this one on one, he would be lost
Then we go to the next page which has kindergarten looking pictures of a rat and r___t underneath. All he has to do is write the ‘a’. A cinch! But maybe some kids cruise through the ‘sound oddity’ exercises and struggle with putting the ‘a’ in-I dunno.
We havent done much with the CD. No good reason. I missed several days that I didnt intend to and prefer to stick with the books/workbook/ manipulatives until I feel back on track.
Overall. I feel it has been worth it. Probably nothing someone couldnt put together easily on their own but….it’s all here and laid out with daily lesson plans and thats nice
update
We stopped after day 15. It has nothing to do with the program itself, just our life as it rolled aong. I am homeschooling and feel the need to provide a more age specific school like curriculum. I have continued to have him do the CD along with Earobics.
But…I have to say, reading is going pretty well. He is still reluctant to stop and sound out a word and I received some suggestions I plan to implement Monday-writing the challenging word on a whiteboard while reading aloud to focus him on just the decode, and a “no guessing contract’ where he gets points when he decodes instead of guesses and I get them when he forgets and guesses. 20 pts and he has to vacuum the car???
We breezed through Stone Fox and are now doing Sadako. His comprehension has been incredible. (the names in Sadako are a killer but he still follows)
So, maybe there was a payoff????
Could you update on your progress on the Sound Reading Program. Have you found it helpful? Is your child making gains? Just wondering.
Donna in MO