stephanino Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 My daughter (2nd grade) loves to read and is a great reader. This was our first year homeschooling and I didn't really do an official reading program. She reads about 2 hours a day, sometimes out loud to me. We also read to our kids all the time! So how important is a reading curriculum and what are some that can be recommended? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 My daughter (2nd grade) loves to read and is a great reader. This was our first year homeschooling and I didn't really do an official reading program. She reads about 2 hours a day, sometimes out loud to me. We also read to our kids all the time! So how important is a reading curriculum and what are some that can be recommended? Sounds like she's flying on her own with reading. My only suggestion might be to teach the phonograms and spelling rules if she doesn't already know them. You can use Spell to Write and Read or All About Spelling to do this - this can help her in tackling new words and of course in spelling. I think the goal of most reading curricula is to get the student to the point your DD is already at. I'd skip the reading curriculum, do a spelling and or grammar program, and have her read read read. You may work on comprehension by doing narrations or literature-based studies, but I wouldn't bother with a reading program at this point. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanino Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks Shannon! She does do Explode the Code and Spelling Workout. I'm more concerned about her comprehension and wonder if there's more I should be doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I'm personally not convinced that comprehension needs to be taught. Test taking skills and why it's important to pay attention to boring reading passages, maybe! We don't live in a state that requires testing now, but we're military and may eventually move to one. So, I gave my daughter the IOWA last year as practice. I just gave it to her cold to see what it would turn up since I knew we would be in a non testing state for the next year as well. Interestingly, for reading comprehension, she did better on the more difficult but interesting reading passages than on the boring but easier reading passages. (I could tell she was reading them all and not skimming them, as well, she was unable to read silently last year, she can now. Also, they were all boring to me, personally, but she liked a few of them! I know because she told me afterwards which ones she thought were interesting and why she liked them and didn't like the others.) Her scores for each of the reading passages were correlated to how much she liked the stories, not how difficult they were. (This year, I'm going to explain the importance of paying attention to boring stories and trying to get all the questions correct and see how that changes things.) Here’s a post by a teacher who remediates a lot of students, and why she believes there aren’t any students without other problems who are great decoders but poor comprehenders (and she offered money for anyone who could find one!): http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/2008/12/palisadesk-on-great-decoders.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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