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  1. A friend and I were discussing sight reading and adults. I remembered an article posted here that discussed the science behind adult reading. The article talked about how adults actually appear to decide quickly, rather than reading by sight. Does anyone have a link to the article? I can't seem to find it on google.
  2. Yes. DD is required to read aloud to me once a day. It's not something I have to force though. She'll also read aloud to her little brother throughout the day. But now that it's summer she has to read aloud before getting screen time.
  3. That sounds like a horrible school. I've never heard of such a policy any where. I know at my work (a transitional housing program) they require everything to be heat santized, but it's a homeless shelter and there's bed bug issues. A preschool? Insane. I can assure you that's not normal.
  4. I would go back with a different librarian and ask to go by grade. Just say she's in K. That's what we did last year for our daughter who was reading in prek. It's worth a shot. Check out independent bookstores. They often have better programs.
  5. Exactly! Literacy skills encompass so much more than just picking up a book.
  6. This exactly. We LOVE books and we also love our summer reading programs. To me they are a fun part of the summer routine. Our library does have literacy activities on their summer reading for 0-5 year olds. They're activities to build pre-reading skills such as rhyming and phonemic awareness. Nursery rhymes and singing songs can be great ways to do this. They all center around literacy though and much more goes into literacy than reading words. I also agree that these programs are targeted at those populations that need to be encouraged to read throughout the summer. Our local book stores also offer excellent programs that are geared more towards K+. They have bingo cards that encourage kids to read a wide variety of books. Our bingo cards (from two bookstores) have squares that say "read a book about someone who looks different than you" "read a book about a differently abled person" "read a fantasy book" "read a biography" etc. it really makes kids read broadly over the summer. My kids read all of the time and the incentives in the summer are just for fun and to connect with our community.
  7. I know that I have seen links to articles before about the disadvantages and advantages to childhood IQ testing. I'm doing a research paper on the downsides of IQ testing in children but I am having a hard time finding scholarly articles. Any suggestions or sources?
  8. Her school may have taught the Bob book type words as sight words. Many schools teach words that are possible to sound out phonetically as sight words. So they'll teach "yes" "run" etc. as sight words even though they're phonetic. This sounds like what her school did. Taught phonetic words as sight words. We used The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading for preschool and it really gave my daughter a solid grasp on phonics. She's now reading at a 2nd grade level fluently. I would get a copy of that book or a similar one and work through it. Your daughter would benefit greatly from a solid phonics foundation. For an alternative to Bob books check out Nora Gaydos Now I'm Reading books and Usborne Phonics books. Much more color and cute stories
  9. Also, I am not crazy about TGTB spelling. In level 1 it is a list of random high. frequency seeming words. There is spelling through dictation in the levels though. We are skipping the spelling lists
  10. My Mac printed it fine, I did some in color but then others in B&W. I then didn't print the art pages and plan to pull those up on my computer. When DD (5.5) did the placement test 2 months ago, it didn't have the grammar and spelling. They just added those in the last few weeks. DD placed into level 1 and barely missed level 2 on the old assessments. On the new assessment she would be in K. K would be way too boring for a reading kiddo IMO. The spelling and grammar in the assessment for Level 1 seem a bit out of place and the spelling words are taught within the Level 1 itself. So it somewhat baffled me when I saw the new assessment.
  11. We are using ps for the same reason. Our daughter will attend an immersion school starting in K this coming fall. We do academics at home as well though and she craves them so I hang out on homeschooling boards for tips and resources. We'll continue to do some afterschooling as well. I can't provide my daughter an immersion language experience and we truly desire them to be bilingual.
  12. This is what I found as well. My dd always made gains after a break
  13. Will it automatically place them in reading eggspress if they do well on the assessment? DD got only one wrong (by mistakenly clicking the wrong answer) and it still only placed her at lesson 112. I don't mind the review, I'm just wondering if I have to move her up to eggspress on my own.
  14. Did she use it after she was reading? DD is reading at a second grade level and I think she'd place in reading Eggspress
  15. We are using the free trial of both right now and I'm wondering if it's worth the cost. I have a 3 year old (not reading, knows numbers and letter sounds) and a 5 year old (reading well). They seem to enjoy the trial and learn and it's $60 for both on homeschoolbuyerscoop
  16. DD finished OPGTR in March. She was determined to do multiple lessons a day for a while. We ended up holding off on AAS until I get a better idea of her spelling abilities. She seems somewhat of a natural speller and I'm not sure I want to invest in a program quite yet. DD is starting to swim on her own. We switched instructors and the new guy is amazing. She can swim short distances underwater. They teach underwater first. Well continue swim in the summer. She's expressed interest in her bike again. She's been afraid of it for a while and now says she wants to learn to ride it. Our goal for the summer is to get her riding. She "graduates" preschool tomorrow and can't stop talking about how much she'll miss school and how she doesn't want to go to K next year. We will work on getting her ready for that transition this summer as well.
  17. We are also now using The Good and the Beautiful Level 1. The phonics is all review but the grammar is excellent.
  18. We used and loved OPGTR. I used it after my daughter new her letter sounds and started on lesson 27. We started at 4 and she finished right before turning 5.5. So about 18 months. She is decoding multisyllable words well now and reading early chapter books. It really gave her a solid phonics foundation and she loved it. We did supplement with some games I found to print offline and with BOB books, Noray gaydos now I'm reading, and some other phonics readers. It was an excellent program and more than enough for us.
  19. I haven't used the rhymes. We started on lesson 27 though since dd knew her letter sounds from leapfrog and other resources. But I wouldn't do the rhymes. I don't care for them. Now my DS would probably love them. He loves rhymes.
  20. That's great! It's crazy how quickly they can make a leap. I think you'll be fine with what you have on hand. We used only OPGTR. I did find some free printables on teacherspayteachers.com and Pinterest that I would use occasionally to add some fun, but other than that we just opened the book and did our lesson. It goes to a 4th grade decoding ability so I think you'd be fine with just using your resources on hand.
  21. I definitely would. I made flash cards for every blend and phonogram and it helps I believe
  22. I bet she will love books once fluency is there. My daughter was the same and she would say "I don't like reading", but once she leaped in fluency she suddenly loved it. She was asking to do 2 lessons a day in OPGTR when we got closer to the end. We now do Wise Owl Polysyllables for practice and I think the similar style to OPGTR appeals to her. I also liked the pace of OPGTR. I felt like it got her reading, but also reinforced concepts. I do find that my DD has a solid grasp on blends. Even when looking at the alphabet written out she will recognize blends that she sees such as "st" Our fluency really increased around lesson 130-150. It took a while, but she did get there and it almost seemed overnight. There are Hello Kitty books. We had some that my dd got in a set from Costco. I got rid of them because i felt like they were just taking up shelf space, but there is definitely a time and a place for character books. If they get her reading I would get any I could find from the library! Also, my DD loves this game. I edited the PDF to add whatever concept we were covering in OPGTR. It really helped with fluency. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pop-a-long-vowel-silent-e-nonsense-word-game-502457
  23. I would continue on with the I Can Read books and teaching some sight words phonetically. We switched to Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading after starting with AAR. I wanted something that I could move through at our own pace without spending a ton of money. It took a while for my DD to be able to read an actual library book. But I felt like it was a lot of building of fluency and once she had a breakthrough she suddenly was a lot less frustrated and started reading for pleasure. Once she gained fluency she also started saying she could read. But I feel like she needed the time to grow as a reader. We took several breaks throughout phonics instruction and I felt that after a week or two off she would suddenly improve.
  24. I would not read Austen in 3rd grade. So much of the nuances of the language and the cultural context of the stories will be missed at that age. There's also some issues such as marital affairs that I would want to wait on. Does Barnes and Noble Abridge Austen? I loved the Abridged and then the regular Dickens at that age. I believe I did Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol both abridged and regular around that age.
  25. We love OPGTR. We only did the pre level of AAR but my daughter seemed to move quickly and I couldn't justify the cost of AAR so we did OPGTR. It worked extremely well. We finished it and now do a page of Don Potters Wise Ow Polysyllables each day to reinforce reading skills.
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