Remedial reading for baby bikie

[FROSTY]

Well baby bikie is struggling a little with his reading.
Ol dad thought --Time for a remedial reading program.
So thanks a million KB -- Dunno how much good its gonna be to him
Baby Bikie now can read Suzuki, Yamaha, big end bearing,conrod,wheelie,jandled and a bunch of other bike type stuff.--HMM teacher for some reasion wasnt over impressed :innocent:

[Crisis management]

Good on you, it doesn't matter what they read, only that they read. If its interesting to them and keeps them engaged and keen to read use it.:rockon:

[FROSTY]

well theres stuff I suddenlt forget how to spell --like the stuff from a certain mr poos

[Cookie]

Good on you, it doesn't matter what they read, only that they read. If its interesting to them and keeps them engaged and keen to read use it.:rockon:

I agree! There is a point of view (which I am sure teachers among us might debate) that teachers don't teach kids to read - KIDS teach themselves to read. For most kids, the trick is to get the right material in front of them at the right times.

My son was having so much fun pretending to be Batman for 16 hours a day that he didn't really see the point in reading. Lots of positive encouragment along with interesting material, plus a bit of time, all helped in our case.

[Crisis management]

well theres stuff I suddenlt forget how to spell --like the stuff from a certain mr poos
Yeah, but he will no doubt need it at some stage, consider it early learning.....

[Paul in NZ]

Hi Frosty

We have been through all this and more with Dyslexia etc in the family.

2 things helped the most. One was something called 'Brain Gym' that was done with a local lady and while I was very VERY sceptical at first, has proved it'self.

Second was sport, in our case netball. Hand / Eye co-ordination is important in the reading / writing process and nothing is better than learning to catch a ball, skipping, marching (in time) and dare I say it, even dancing. Honestly, just playing catch with a ball for 20 mins a day helps a LOT.

Paul n

[ajturbo]

Hi Frosty

We have been through all this and more with Dyslexia etc in the family.

2 things helped the most. One was something called 'Brain Gym' that was done with a local lady and while I was very VERY sceptical at first, has proved it'self.

Second was sport, in our case netball. Hand / Eye co-ordination is important in the reading / writing process and nothing is better than learning to catch a ball, skipping, marching (in time) and dare I say it, even dancing. Honestly, just playing catch with a ball for 20 mins a day helps a LOT.

Paul n

soooo Xbox would be good then?:nya:

[BuFfY]

If you want someone to work with him a lil bit I am more than happy to.. I need all the practise I can get with teaching how to read etc! And I have just spent a month in a junior classroom so have seen most strategies put in place... some work some don't!

But giving him some of the ready to read books at his level and picking ones that are in a context he likes (obviously he is like is Dad and likes bikes!) then he will be more willing to want to read! Making it fun is the most important thing

[Cookie]

soooo Xbox would be good then?:nya:

As my son has got older, he has really enjoyed getting into computer games. PC or Consol, any serious gamer needs to do a lot of reading of installation instructions, game play instructions, screen commands and info, sharing hints and cheats on web forums etc. I think games can be very educational! :yes:

[Paul in NZ]

As my son has got older, he has really enjoyed getting into computer games. PC or Consol, any serious gamer needs to do a lot of reading of installation instructions, game play instructions, screen commands and info, sharing hints and cheats on web forums etc. I think games can be very educational! :yes:

Yes but nothing is better that gaining the skills required to catch a ball, use a bat and ball etc. It's something that is best learnt young. Sell it to them that it will improve their x box skills

[BuFfY]

At that age you don't have to sell anything to them, they are like little sponges and all the ever do is soak every experience up and learn so much from all of it.

All part of their equilbrium (study sucks :() and if things are put into contexts that they enjoy then they will learn so much faster as they wont need to go through the accommodation phase of the schemata process.

see my study is boring as!

[Paul in NZ]

At that age you don't have to sell anything to them, they are like little sponges and all the ever do is soak every experience up and learn so much from all of it.

All part of their equilbrium (study sucks :() and if things are put into contexts that they enjoy then they will learn so much faster as they wont need to go through the accommodation phase of the schemata process.

see my study is boring as!

They are like sponges later as well - they suck up everything in my wallet and in my bank account.

[FROSTY]

so nothing changes over the years then paul :nya:

[Skyryder]

I found the way to get my kids to read was to read to them. Kids will emulate their parents. If they see mum and dad reading from books they too will want to read from books. The only thing important is that the subject matter must be of interest to them.

Skyryder

[XTC]

a good site here (http://starfall.com) also. My kids have been using this site since they were 2 1/2. only took them a half day to master the mouse.

[Motu]

No problems with my kids reading - our weekly trip to the library sees each kid taking in a cube box,and coming out with it overflowing.My eldest daughter was reading a 3,at four she was able to read The Hobbit by herself,not only was her reading advanced,but her concepts were too....in hindsight I don't think it was a good thing her reading so early.My 2nd daughter was slow at picking it up,just to balance things out.But at 7 she just took off and in a couple of weeks was up to her age group,well beyond a couple of weeks after that.

The boys have been more normal,the standard 5 years old.They have had a computer for most of their life,but it doesn't seem to have stopped them reading.All my kids have been home educated too - how did we teach them to read so well ?

On their father's knee....

[Edbear]

On their father's knee....




Hear, hear! Spending time with them like this can only be good! I'm very pleased to see my son-in-law reading to our Grandson from only a couple months old! Little Aston just loves it! When I was younger, of course we didn't have even a TV, let alone what we have today! Only had the old valve radio and books! I read everything and anything that had words on it! If we weren't outside playing or working we were playing the piano, singing or reading!

Used to spend hours with my kids on my knee reading to them and as they learned to read, listening to them. I reckon it's one reason we're so close now that they've all grown up, too!:rockon: