How long does logic stage last? Reading??

[Daisy]

I'm wondering when I should expect my DD to start making deeper connections in her reading/writing. She is 8.5yo and in 3rd grade. Next year is 4th grade! I guess I just feel like 4th grade is a big year. Maybe b/c my DH taught it for 10 years and I remember the kids maturing so much during that year. Should I start adding more critical thinking, literature guides?? to my DD's line-up. She will be a young 4th grader (turning 9yo in Sept.) and I'm wondering if I would be pushing her too early. She still is at the point where she retells me the story and sticks to just the facts. She doesn't make any deeper connections with the book unless I really paint the picture for her. She is a great writer. She can write a 5 paragraph LETTER to her grandparents that is well written, well articulated but just the facts, KWIM?

 

I'm seeing what I am writing and already realizing that she is only 8.5yo and I need to not worry about. Funny how writing it out sometimes answers the question. Okay, so now just tell me I'm right. :D My struggle really is in finding literature at the 4-6th grade reading level that is not too complex. She needs the challenge of a higher vocabulary book but often those higher books really require deeper thinking skills that she isn't quite ready for (she'll miss the underlying point of the book). Any suggestions? Or maybe again, I should just let her read and get what she gets from it?? I don't know.

[Guest]

Isn't it great when we answer our own questions? I think you are right. Don't worry about it for now. What I have used for lit. is the Good Books list found on the Great Books Academy website, the Highland Latin School summer reading list found at their site, and the Logos School reading list found in their catalog. you have to go to the site then download the whole thing then flip through the pages to find the list, but it is worth it.

[Karenciavo]

Whenever the child is ready. My oldest seemed to have been born in the logic stage, but we didn't officially go there until 5th grade. My middle son wasn't ready to be fully in that stage until 7th grade, although we started transitioning in 6th.

[Colleen in NS]

I'm wondering when I should expect my DD to start making deeper connections in her reading/writing. She is 8.5yo and in 3rd grade. Next year is 4th grade! I guess I just feel like 4th grade is a big year. Maybe b/c my DH taught it for 10 years and I remember the kids maturing so much during that year. Should I start adding more critical thinking, literature guides?? to my DD's line-up. She will be a young 4th grader (turning 9yo in Sept.) and I'm wondering if I would be pushing her too early. She still is at the point where she retells me the story and sticks to just the facts. She doesn't make any deeper connections with the book unless I really paint the picture for her. She is a great writer. She can write a 5 paragraph LETTER to her grandparents that is well written, well articulated but just the facts, KWIM?

 

I'm seeing what I am writing and already realizing that she is only 8.5yo and I need to not worry about. Funny how writing it out sometimes answers the question. Okay, so now just tell me I'm right. :D My struggle really is in finding literature at the 4-6th grade reading level that is not too complex. She needs the challenge of a higher vocabulary book but often those higher books really require deeper thinking skills that she isn't quite ready for (she'll miss the underlying point of the book). Any suggestions? Or maybe again, I should just let her read and get what she gets from it?? I don't know.

 

You are right. :)

 

I would just keep feeding her quality stories on her reading level, and letting her tell the story back to you. I look for books that are adapted from classics, on a younger level, so my kids can get the jist of the story line. I know they will come to the original stories later on, and can do all that analysis stuff when their minds are ready for it.

 

I also think that public schools tend to push analysis and critical thinking activities at younger ages, when kids are not really ready for it yet.

[Daisy]

Thanks for telling me I'm right. LOL. I really needed to be reassured and I appreciate it.

[mcconnellboys]

I think you are right, on both counts.

 

Regena

[Carol in Cal.]

I have found that that is what drove my DD's vocabulary and thinking skills the furthest at that age. She was not quite ready to read to learn, but she would pick up very difficult (middle school level) books that I had already read to her and reread them to herself and then talk about them. I don't think she would have done this if she was not already intrigued by them and already had been through them to some extent.

[prairiegirl]

I would read harder books to her as well. This will help with her vocabulary. I think it's okay that she doesn't get the meaning this time around. As she gets older, she will probably revisit those books and then she will get the theme. This is what I do with my dd who is the same age as yours. We use the lists at Ambleside Online. Some of their recommendations are way beyond my dd, but she enjoys listening to the story all the same.

 

 

Julia

mom of 3 (8,7,5)