Posted by
Mighty
17 yrs ago
I know each child develops at its own pace but I am a bit anxious.... My daughter s 5 and a bit but she can only read very simple C-V-C words and may be some camera words. One of her classmates' parent told me that her daughter can read very complicated stories without any help. I was surprised to learn such a big gap between them and is wondering what I can do to help. We read bedtime stories every night and play flash cards almost every day.
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First, and this is important, not one single person at a job interview ever asked me when I started reading!
Now, up until you found out someone elses kid could read a bit better, you were very happy with your daughter? This is key, any anxiety on your part will set her back.
Put this on the fridge 'comparisons are odius'
She is fine, she is progressing on her own timetable, she is reading, she is happy, what more as a parent could you ask for?
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Z
17 yrs ago
Absolutely what WhatThe? said. I started to read before I was 3; my spouse didn't start until almost 8. The only difference between us that we have noticed in the last 20 years is that when we moved to Asia it drove me bananas to not be able to read signage.
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Tks for everyone's input. I am a first time mother so m not sure if i hv missed out something or is not doing enough for my child.
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I have the same situation as you Mighty. My daughter is 5.5 years old.... with the pressures of getting into a brand name local school, alot of her classmates were reading English fiction books, with NO pictures in them.. (that's what they call those level of books)..... and Chinese books too..... while my daughter was still learning phonics, and enjoying MY reading aloud time with her while she looked at words and the pictures (colourful).
I was very worried.... and true, she wasn't accepted to a couple of local schools who accepted those who can read with advanced levels.
Now, 6 months after the interviews, my daughter is starting to read all on her own, level 2 books of Ican read series..... and some nice classics like Ten in a bed, or Inch by Inch..... and Eric Carle books... are all ok now.
Don't worry, it happens soon.
But since the interviews, and in the last 6 months, I put her in a course for English lessons including writing, comprehension, and phonics..... it has helped.
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Tks Kate, your email is very assuring. In fact my daughter has been 'invited' (^-^) to the school's early intervention programme so that she can catch up a bit more with other classmates. Both the teacher and myself hv seen a big progress on her 'reading'. It is indeed very bad of me comparing her with other kids who have been trained up to read at an very early stage. By the way, which lessons did you enrol your child?
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The one thing which makes kids pick up books and want to read is if the parents read to them. Our daughters, neither of whom can read yet, will happily leaf through a book without pictures and pretend to read. Our older one will grab a book that we have read to her and that she knows by heart. She'll "read" it, meaning speak the entire story while vaguely following the text, even if she cannot actually read the words yet. Motivation, right there.
In other words, read to your kids every day.
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Our child can't read yet (he's only one!) but I've been reading to him regularly from when he was only 2-3 mths old. (Actually reading is one of my favourite ways to interact with him). Now all of a sudden, he seems to resent my reading to him! In fact, whenever I pick up a book and start reading, a lot of times he will just snatch it away from me and even pointedly turn his back to me and stop flipping through the pages himself (sometimes silently, sometimes while babbling monosyllabic nonsense.) If I don't let him take the book and continue, he gets really upset. If I take another book, he'll come over and grab that away as well.
I'm hoping that this is just a temporary phase that will pass. I really enjoyed our reading time together. He used to sit on my lap and flip pages while i read and pointed things out to him in the book - but no more. :-(
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