amyc78 Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 I've asked this question before but it's been awhile and so I'm coming back to it... My dd6's reading fluency concerns me. Her older brother was such an advanced reader that I know it's not fair to compare but I feel like she needs some help. We finished AAR1 a few weeks ago and took some time to just review review review. We did lots of readers and word cards. She is slowly improving as long as we are super consistent. We are going to have to go very slow with AAR2 and in the meantime, I'd like to find some supplemental activities she can do on her own... workbooks and/or worksheets that are not just busy work but will actually help to increase her reading ability. I'm open to games, videos, online materials too as long as they are not too "gamey" or easy. I feel like so many of the online games she just guesses until she gets it right and it's not actually teaching her much. Quote
UnlikelyHomeschoolingMama Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 I would say just read read read. Get a variety of different early readers and just keep reading. It is what helped my daughter. She understood phonics, could do a worksheet in no time flat, and would kill any game, but the actual act of READING was painful. Around this time of her first grade year something clicked. It was almost like it was overnight that she just started doing it!! Just two months after her 7th bday. Imagine....all the research that says kids are developmentally ready for reading at the age of 7. Mmmm...we all say "hey!! look!! Reading clicks in first or second grade!!". No...the kids are just READY then. I'm sure she will do fine if you just keep reading. My son is 6 and in kinder now. I'm finding the same thing with him. Rocking the phonics rules and worksheets, but painful to listen to him. We will just keep practicing! :) 3 Quote
ExcitedMama Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 Supplement with BOB books and I see Sam to help with fluency. What about adding in ETC? Maybe practicing writing the words would help with fluency. Is she having a problem with blending? Or is it more that she's doing it slowly and needs more time to speed up? 1 Quote
amyc78 Posted January 13, 2016 Author Posted January 13, 2016 Supplement with BOB books and I see Sam to help with fluency. What about adding in ETC? Maybe practicing writing the words would help with fluency. Is she having a problem with blending? Or is it more that she's doing it slowly and needs more time to speed up? She despises I See Sam books, they are kind of tongue-twisterish. We've been supplementing with BOB books and Sonlight I Can Read It books because we already own them. I may add in ETC. It's pretty independent and she's enjoyed it in the past. I believe that its more that she's doing it slowly and needs more time. Sometimes she switches sounds or guesses but I think that's just because she's trying to hurry. Quote
SevenDaisies Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 My oldest was also a very natural reader, but my son struggled and was very reluctant. AAR 1 was super slow moving for my son. I didn't think he would ever get better, but suddenly about a third of the way through AAR 2 his fluency really improved and halfway through he was able to start reading books like Little Bear. My youngest doesn't struggle, but isn't a motivated reader, and she did the same thing. Halfway through AAR2 and reading Little Bear. When we were stalled out we would read previous stories to improve fluency as well as confidence. The other levels have moved much faster for us. Quote
lacell Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 My son loves the free I See Sam readers online for fluency. Quote
MerryAtHope Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 6 is still so young, so don't be too discouraged. Have you seen these articles: 5 Tips for Fluency Pages (and there are fun ideas in the comment section too) 8 Ways to Review Word Cards Might give you some ways to do extra practice as you go through Level 2 as well. My son enjoyed the Christian Liberty Press readers at that stage--the first two, It is Fun to Read, and Pals and Pets would be a good complement. A few others I didn't see mentioned yet: Reading Teacher Fun Phonics–the first 3 books Progressive Phonics – Free phonics books that can be read online or downloaded and used right away. We Read Phonics Big pictures with one sentence. Example of level 1 is “Bugs on the Busâ€. Example of level 2 is “Which Pet is Bestâ€. Books by Nora Gaydos (the customer who suggested this said they are expensive but the library might have them). We Both Read books. On the left hand pages there is text for the parent to read and on the right is text for the kids to read. Here’s an example. The Core Knowledge LA Kindergarten readers are usually decodable after AAR level 1. The readers start at unit 6. Unit 10 (the last Kindergarten unit) has some silent e words, which wouldn’t be accessible yet to students doing AAR. They’re free to download:https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-skills-unit-6-reader-kit https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-skills-unit-7-reader-seth https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-skills-unit-8-reader-sam https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-skills-unit-9-reader-zach-and-ann Hopefully you find something she likes! 3 Quote
ElizabethB Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 (edited) My concentration game http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html Read, Write, Type does not encourage guessing and is helpful for spelling and reading, it is the only online program I like.(Except my movies, but they are for older children!) I feel that most of the other online programs encourage guessing to one degree or another, whether through sight words or through the format. Edited January 14, 2016 by ElizabethB Quote
ByGrace3 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 I have felt that AAR done as slowly as necessary has so much practice, and the fluency pages are so thorough, adding anything would have been too much for us. That said, I do have the Ziggy supplement game book .... That might be fun for reviewing. http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/all-about-reading-level-1-ziggy-supplement/ 3 Quote
UCF612 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 My oldest had reading click part way through AAR2. I'm hoping the same will be true for my youngest. I feel like with my oldest once he learned the syllable division rules at the end of level1/beginning of level 2 things started to come together more rapidly and then it just clicked and he could read anything. My youngest starts AAR 2 TODAY! We finished 1 yesterday and he's eager to move forward. 1 Quote
beka87 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 We really love Dancing Bears from Sound Foundations for fluency. It has made a real difference in my daughter's reading ability. It's not really a work book or game, you would have to be there doing it with her, but it only takes about 10 minutes and the results have been great here. Good luck, and don't fret too much. My daughter was a lot like yours...six and reading well if we were VERY consistent. I worried a lot about fluency. Dancing Bears helped,but so did just sticking with it. She reads for hours at a time now - books I was sure, once upon a time, she would just NEVER be able to. ;) Quote
3 ladybugs Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 I agree AAR2 has a "click" moment. My son is about 2/3 through AAR 2 and he is now reading words he doesn't understand and asking us about them. Before we started AAR he was not even reading simple things like "Spot sits on dot." despite going through another reading program. I think if you just go through AAR 2 you will see it fills all the holes that you think it has now. I know I thought my son needed something more after AAR 1 but I realized after I got AAR2 that there is a method to their madness. Now I am not worried... though I will be adding vocabulary to my son's studies mainly because he is reading so much now, that he needs his vocabulary to catch up! 1 Quote
kalusignan Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Just keep chugging along. Really. It will click. Just be patient. After AAR1, I went completely through AAS1 alongside reading through the AAR readers again and reviewing 10-20 word cards every day. The act of spelling and going through all the phonograms again helped a lot. Also, the Ziggy supplement was a hit! A great way to get through those word cards every day and have fun at the same time. 1 Quote
ReadingMama1214 Posted January 14, 2016 Posted January 14, 2016 Just keep chugging along. Really. It will click. Just be patient. After AAR1, I went completely through AAS1 alongside reading through the AAR readers again and reviewing 10-20 word cards every day. The act of spelling and going through all the phonograms again helped a lot. Also, the Ziggy supplement was a hit! A great way to get through those word cards every day and have fun at the same time. That ziggy supplement looks amazing. We aren't using AAR1, but I think we might get that to reinforce our program. We have ziggy from the pre reading program and dd loves him 1 Quote
amyc78 Posted January 14, 2016 Author Posted January 14, 2016 I have felt that AAR done as slowly as necessary has so much practice, and the fluency pages are so thorough, adding anything would have been too much for us. That said, I do have the Ziggy supplement game book .... That might be fun for reviewing. http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/all-about-reading-level-1-ziggy-supplement/ Thanks for the suggestion, just ordered!! She loves games so this will be great 1 Quote
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