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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 554661" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Well, this post comes with a health warning: please turn off your sets now if you are in inclined to impatience with my comings and goings about J's strange reading habits <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p>So... I think it's all an illusion, this idea that he's making progress with reading with the school method. He is now indeed reeling off whole phrases that he has learnt by heart and can "recognise" some isolated words when you ask him, but this has little to do with reading. He cannot recognise most letters or in any way read the word if you break it down into syllables. I just don't get the method, which seems daft to me, but there you go. A neighbour friend whose daughter has severe dyslexia brought me some books about dyslexia and they all say that this "global method" is disastrous for children with learning difficulties.</p><p>Anyway, I never saw myself in this role at all but I feel I have no choice. Since we can't get an appointment with a speech therapist before the next millennium, I have to complement the school teaching at home. I have an old-fashioned book with the letters and then syllables and then words broken into syllables and we have started with that. I have to be really patient, constantly full of praise otherwise he gets instantly discouraged and wants to stop. I can see he's made some progress since last week, for example. Can now read little syllables of certain consonants followed by the vowels. But he keeps forgetting and forgetting the sounds and names of certain letters - p, t, m, n today - no matter if you've said it a minute before. He certainly can learn to read, I feel, but it's as if he needs intensive one to one coaching to learn the letters and make progress. </p><p>So here we go... with no real knowledge of what I am doing, I am teaching someone to read <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/reading.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":reading:" title="reading :reading:" data-shortname=":reading:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 554661, member: 11227"] Well, this post comes with a health warning: please turn off your sets now if you are in inclined to impatience with my comings and goings about J's strange reading habits :) So... I think it's all an illusion, this idea that he's making progress with reading with the school method. He is now indeed reeling off whole phrases that he has learnt by heart and can "recognise" some isolated words when you ask him, but this has little to do with reading. He cannot recognise most letters or in any way read the word if you break it down into syllables. I just don't get the method, which seems daft to me, but there you go. A neighbour friend whose daughter has severe dyslexia brought me some books about dyslexia and they all say that this "global method" is disastrous for children with learning difficulties. Anyway, I never saw myself in this role at all but I feel I have no choice. Since we can't get an appointment with a speech therapist before the next millennium, I have to complement the school teaching at home. I have an old-fashioned book with the letters and then syllables and then words broken into syllables and we have started with that. I have to be really patient, constantly full of praise otherwise he gets instantly discouraged and wants to stop. I can see he's made some progress since last week, for example. Can now read little syllables of certain consonants followed by the vowels. But he keeps forgetting and forgetting the sounds and names of certain letters - p, t, m, n today - no matter if you've said it a minute before. He certainly can learn to read, I feel, but it's as if he needs intensive one to one coaching to learn the letters and make progress. So here we go... with no real knowledge of what I am doing, I am teaching someone to read :reading: [/QUOTE]
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