I recieved an email from someone interested in stories regarding how children learn to read.
After seeing my two daughters learn to read in dramatically different ways, I have been intrigued by the question of how homeschooling children learn to read. I am feeling led to research how other homeschooling children are learning to read by non-traditional means. I am not sure exactly where my research will lead. At this time, I am just collecting stories from homeschooling parents. .........
Lessee, I know contrary1 did some, and luxliving, not sure of the names of who else though, so rather than miss anyone, I figured I would just post it here.
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None graduated, 1 went on to get his GED, and 2 have gone on to college level courses. One to massage therapy school.
One of them still can't read well, heck....hardly at all. We just skipped reading, as that had been a huge problem in public schools. I learned many new ways to lead her to learning, that didn't involve reading. (I learned so much more than she did I think) We used video, TV, movies, hands on learning, mentors, interviews, you name it..........we tried it. Although this one has never submitted to testing, I believe there is a learning disability when it comes to printed material.
And, the interesting thing about all 3 of these kids.........they were all brilliant. IQ's way beyond mine. They could leave me in the dust when they all started working on something together. Certainly was an interesting time at my house with all of them together!
Long story short...........I didn't teach any of them to read. I didn't teach much of anything. I got to be an expert however, in helping them find out how to learn what they were interested in.
October 11th, 2006 at 04:09 am 1160536170
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