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on: July 16, 2012, 10:48:26 PM Top |
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Ha!  I love the funny things kids say that embarrass us parents! Btw, my daughter also loves Reading Bear! Thanks, DadDude for all your work on it! |
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on: July 14, 2012, 03:46:58 AM Top |
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James did a reading bear related thing today. He jiggled daddy's belly and said "this man is very fat". I think he did another thing that might be reading bear related. He climbed into my lap and said. "the mama has her baby in her lap"
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on: July 14, 2012, 12:29:03 AM Top |
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You described the same process we are going through with Reading Bear - but I have to ask him what it says. How often do you show a presentation before you are done with it? P. can actually say the words if they are sounded out slowly on the first shot. I have all the "a" words in LR file and he can read them there without me saying anything. He won't read them in Reading Bear unless he's asked. I want him to understand the process of sounding out words but I suspect by the 20th presentation he will figure it out. He's already pretending to do it on his own.
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on: July 07, 2012, 09:16:51 PM Top |
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About a week ago we were sitting at the table having an afternoon snack when my 23 month old says, "Fruit snacks makes a fancy dinner."
What 23 month old says such things? Besides, I don't say such things. I was wondering where in the world he would pick up something like that. We don't watch TV. How curious.
This afternoon we were working on Reading Bear and I decided to review short "A" words with him. We come across the word ham. The woman says, "Ham makes a fancy dinner." My son says, "No, fruit snacks makes a fancy dinner."
Now I know.
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on: July 08, 2012, 04:27:41 AM Top |
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Baby E. is now 21 months and he's the same way. When he was 10 months, he was OK with Reading Bear but it wasn't quite his bag; he tolerated it and even liked it, but only in small doses. Then when he was, say, 14 or 16 months, he started to like it and we could do it several times a week. Then in the last month or so he comes up to me and begs "Reading Bear!" (or "Beah! Beah!") all the time, so we're watching a few times a day.
I'm seeing the same thing happen with E. that happened with H., at about the same age. (E. is a little more advanced now than H. was at least in his decoding and overall language ability, although H. liked books more and could handle and sit still for more advanced books.) I'm seeing the pattern again where E. gets very focused on the words and the pronunciations and, while he learns how to speak, he learns how to read. Since we started Reading Bear more systematically, his vocabulary and ability to articulate have both improved hugely; he's speaking much more in sentences now, too. Sometimes, we try the "Sound it out fast" or even "Let me sound it out" presentations," but we still use the "Sound it out slowly" presentations, and he participates by saying the word as soon as he can figure it out. H. was the same way, although we were using flash cards. I would start sounding out a word; if it was difficult, I might have to sound it out a couple times, and then he'd produce the whole word. Later, I'd start sounding it out, and he'd immediately say the word before I could finish. Finally, I didn't have to sound it out at all, he'd just see brand new words, illustrating brand new rules, and say them. He was at that stage by the time we got to the rules in Reading Bear presentation #20 or so.
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