desertmum Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 We've had such a hard time with reading. I started in October with my 5yo. After trying Jolly Phonics (which I found expensive and vague) ds could not "get" the idea of sounding the letters -let alone blending! Now I have moved to Word Mastery along with the McGuffey Ecclectic Primer. It has been reeeaaaaally slow, but after 2 months and a disastrous start of the week full of :banghead: :smash: :angry: :crying: I gave both us a 'break'. Today I thought, what the heck, let's try again. Suddenly I see ds sounding out the letters and blending them on his own. He didn't need prompting. Yes, we are still on simple 3 letter words but I saw a light switch on in ds' eyes. He was even capable of handling a few new words! :w00t: Yes, I know that 3 letter words are easy but I am just so happy to see some progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandty Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 :hurray: I remember when my youngest was at that point. He had all the letter sounds down, but the blending was a foreign concept to him. It took about 2 months until he matured enough and was ready to "read". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertmum Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 :hurray: I remember when my youngest was at that point. He had all the letter sounds down, but the blending was a foreign concept to him. It took about 2 months until he matured enough and was ready to "read". Thank GOD someone replied. Actually I felt very silly posting this. I mean, I read about curriculum choices of latin and whatnot, and I think "Two months to blend "sat, let, ran, fan" etc? You make me better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Rain Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 :hurray: Both of my girls often do better after a day or two off. I think it gives the brain time to process the information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertmum Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 :hurray: Both of my girls often do better after a day or two off. I think it gives the brain time to process the information. Aha! moment. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momsuz123 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Good to hear you made progress. I am working hard with my 6.5 y/o. It is those dang blends. They just take time. She looks at a word with 5 letters and just says, "nope, too long". It is a slow process, but I know somehow, someway we will get there. I am also kind of combining programs. We do AAR and AAS, and recently added OPTGR. Whew, something will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgialee Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 That's great!! Ds knew his letter sounds from about 3 yrs old (thanks for Leapfrog dvd's, lol) but didn't begin to blend until 6. It was a frustrating 3 years waiting for that light switch to flip, but now he's able to spell/read much longer words and it's only been 4-5 months. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 We were the same way. We had two false starts and several breaks before our lightbulb moment. Now my daughter's reading has taken off and she reads everything she can find! For a while I thought I was possibly the worst, most impatient teacher ever. We just weren't ready and needed a break. My daughter would sound out a 3 letter word and end up with a completely different word when she would say the word. She would add letters or subtract letters, or both. "and" would become "dad" and crazy things like that. It made me so nuts! Now she can sound out longer words without morphing them into something else. It's weird how they learn in little leaps and jumps rather than in perfectly incremental steps. That was news to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloggermom Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Nothing really worked with my 6.5 year old son until we used CLE LTR (Learn to Read). It finally made things click for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertmum Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Thank you for the words of encouragement. Honestly I thought I was failing miserably and feeling miserable. Now I kow this is just the beginning, but I can see that it can be done. I have been talking to dh about this reading thing and I just get blank stares -poor man thinks I've lost it. Anyway, I let ds watch some cartoons as a reward and I did a little dance in the kitchen to celebrate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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