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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Reading but not comprehending?
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on: April 08, 2014, 07:23:25 PM
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Many thanks for the tips! I have already been trying to incorporate the suggestions in my everyday life. So far my boy still gives me the blank look and if I give him multiple choice answers he still gets it wrong more than half of the time. I guess persistency is the key!
I am eagerly waiting for the "Visualizing and verbalizing" book to arrive so I can carry out the tips and suggestions in there.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Reading but not comprehending?
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on: April 06, 2014, 11:43:19 AM
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Many thanks for the tips. I will check out the Visualizing and verbalizing program! I have tried to cut out words and sentences to get my lo to match to the correct pictures. He seems to be able to do that with no problems at all. I have also cut out sentences with instructions for him to carry out simple tasks and he didn't have any issues with those neither. I guess my problem is mainly to get him to summarise what he has read in his own words. He doesn't seem to be able to recall what happened in the book, in fact, in everyday situation he never seems to be able to recalll what we have just done.  |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Reading but not comprehending?
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on: April 02, 2014, 09:16:25 AM
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My 3 year old (just had his birthday) has been reading (decoding words) since 1.5 but I am not sure whether he is really comprehending and understanding the story. He is now reading rather fluently and if I point at pictures etc, he can tell me what is going on. But once he has turned the page or finished the book, he doesn't seem to be able to tell me what the story was about.
Anyone had that experience? Any suggestions on how to improve his comprehension? I try to summarise the story for him at the end but he may not want to listen but want to move on to the next book.
Thanks.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: Sarting with a 2y 1m old
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on: October 01, 2013, 03:13:21 PM
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My child is 2.5 and attends a Montessori pre-school. However he can already read when he started because of all the little reader work we have done with him.
Personally, I think the traditional approach and doman approach can be carried out in the same time, just like the sight word approach and the phonic approach can be used in the same time. They should enhance each other and make it much easier to learn as they can build on each other and your child can cross reference the two. The more words they see, the easier it will be for them to figure it out in their head.
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Advice please - starting/settling in pre-school
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on: April 24, 2013, 07:40:16 AM
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Hi
My 26 months old boy just started a Montessori pre-school last week. We are doing 3 hours in the afternoon four days a week. It started really well last week and he was loving it. But everything starts to go wrong this week and he has been crying and screaming with massive tantrums on and off during his stay there. And he has also started to self harm by banging his head on the floor and snapping his own face and the nursery staff couldn't manage to stop him. When I picked him up yesterday he got scratches all over his face and a red forehead. It is really hard for me to see that he's so stressed by the experience.
The teacher complains that he wouldn't listen to them and he is in his own little world. I know when he's with me, he has selective hearing too but generally he’s still responsive to my instructions most times. He also doesn't like being told no but he hardly throws any tantrums when he's with me nowadays.
So, is this normal toddler behaviour not being able to listen to other adults? Or are these simply signs that he's not ready for pre-school? The teacher seems to think that the tantrums are normal when they first start to settle in but the self-harm isn't.
I would ideally like to settle him in pre-school so I can go back to work after the summer around September time.
Another thing is that, the teacher told me on Monday that he is so advanced academically they actually have nothing to teach him. And they don’t have the material to advance him. He already knows everything in their curriculum, if not beyond. She thinks that he would be very bored with the pre-school within a year. She suggested that perhaps I should contact the primary schools to see whether we can get him to start reception/year 1 when he’s three. (Here in UK, we start children in reception year age 4, which I think is really early as it is)
My husband is completely against home-schooling, so that’s not really an option for us. I am not sure it’s really in his best interest to be in formal schooling too early but I am also worried about being bored in school may put him off learning. The question is, if he does accelerate in the school system, he would need to have the emotional/social skills to match. Right now, it doesn’t look like he’s particularly emotionally mature for his age. I am hoping that the pre-school will improve his social skills in this mixed age setting (all children here are at least one year older than him)
I would love to hear your opinion on this and perhaps point out things that I am not considering.
Thanks in advance!
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