kids using ebooks

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by Ceili

By doing this on his own, he's also working on cognition... if you've ever heard a first grader read you'll know that cognition is Rarely a part of that reading experience... they are taught some weird way of sounding out the letters (instead of words as I was) and no way do they "get" the word they are sounding out... an example would be afternoon. He knows this word and uses it in speech, but he hadn't come across it in day to day reading... he sounded it out as ah fff te eh rrr nn o o nn. I didn't know what he was sounding out nor did he!!! But going over the word together, he figured it out by the time we got through the first Aft sound.

My daughter did much the same. She knew the sounds each letter made in isolation, but it took her a *LONG* time to figure out how they worked together. She didn't catch on to "bl" as in "black" having just one sound rather than "buh" "luh".

[Ceili]

Originally Posted by Elsi

My daughter did much the same. She knew the sounds each letter made in isolation, but it took her a *LONG* time to figure out how they worked together. She didn't catch on to "bl" as in "black" having just one sound rather than "buh" "luh".

THANK YOU! I have been saying, it's normal (but inside, I've been freaking out! hehe). It's like nails on a chalkboard to hear him do it, but I'm just so glad he's loving the experience

BTW, the latest samples were from The Sisters Grimm... (he's not at the point where things are "too girly" but he does prefer Spiderman and the like)
It does seem to be an older child book as there were quite a few words to stumble on.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by Elsi

My daughter did much the same. She knew the sounds each letter made in isolation, but it took her a *LONG* time to figure out how they worked together. She didn't catch on to "bl" as in "black" having just one sound rather than "buh" "luh".

Originally Posted by Ceili

THANK YOU! I have been saying, it's normal (but inside, I've been freaking out! hehe). It's like nails on a chalkboard to hear him do it, but I'm just so glad he's loving the experience

The odds are that he'll figure it out on his own.

Turns out that my daughter has a learning disabililty. The root cause is that the two language centers in her brain do not exchange information the way they should. So rather than integrating the auditory/spoken language and the written one, she was storing each away separately. I knew she had a problem, but I wasn't paying attention and didn't realize what was going on. She got assigned to a *MARVELOUS* LD and reading teacher who taught her not only how to decipher the written language, but some excellent coping and compensation skills. She's a teacher of Mathematics (Algebra, preferably) to high school students and is starting graduate school in September, aiming for a MS in Educational Technology.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by kazbates

I would much rather give a child a reader than a Nintendo DS, etc. If they thought of reading as a game, maybe they would do it more!

Well, you can get reading programs for the DS and for the PSP. I have created wiki's for both. Chess is a good game that is available for he Nintendo DS at least.

Dale

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Well, you can get reading programs for the DS and for the PSP. I have created wiki's for both. Chess is a good game that is available for he Nintendo DS at least.

Dale

Thanks, Dale. That's good to know. Maybe I can slip a reading program onto Ryleigh's DS and get her off the Pokemon!

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Well, you can get reading programs for the DS and for the PSP. I have created wiki's for both. Chess is a good game that is available for he Nintendo DS at least.

Dale

Did you do a wiki page for the PSP? I checked yesterday and there wasn't one, so I started it. Is there a broken link? I don't want to duplicate work.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Did you do a wiki page for the PSP? I checked yesterday and there wasn't one, so I started it. Is there a broken link? I don't want to duplicate work.

I was probably writing it while you were checking. Check today.

Dale