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My son is an incredible reader. In JK, he was reading well beyond Grade 2. And not just the words, but FLUENTLY. The funniest thing - he knew all his letters, but when I went to do sight words with him ie. dog cat, Mom, Liam, etc. he wasn't interested. Then one day I pull out a DR. Seuss he's never seen before and he reads the ENTIRE thing. I was totally floored. See what your daughter can do!!!!! 
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#276754 - 08/02/06 01:18 PM
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See, she is writing all the letters of the alphabet now, and can pick up certain words on signs, and also the word PLAY. And Dora, of course. But I don't know how to begin this. I'm not too kindy educated, and the kids I worked with in SpEd had some basics. i just amn't sure how to put the letters together...she is learning sounds a bit...
I think it'd be soooo cool if she went back to preschool able to read a few words, because I know she'll take off like ajet once she knows, and will be reading Harry Potter in grade one. LOL!
I was reading at an 11.7(Brigance?) by grade four. I'd love to Brigance her! Am I warped?
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Start with the letter sounds of the consonants. Then the vowels. Game: Say a word and ask her what the first letter is.
Then start with word lists like:
Cat bat hat sat rat mat etc. Start with the aaaat then add the different letters in front of it. It works great with letter blocks, magnets, stamps or whatever. That way, they can see that the AT stays the same, and the beginning of rhte word changes.
Then try other similar lines. Man, pan, ban, can, dan, fan, etc.
Yeah, I was one of those who could write my name by three, and basically read the entire school's library by grade 3/4. My Dad finally started bringing home books from his high school for me to read.
My daughter, just turning 3, could write the first few letters of her name at 2. Scaary.
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That's a good basis for things. thank you. I just found out that this year not only am I teaching but I get my own French classroom! ooh! Ahh! I can not WAIT to get in there and decorate. I wish I had a key TODAY.
excuse the horrid editing.
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Bonne chance!! Your OWN classroom! I'm so happy for you. This year will be a real turning point for you - I can just feel it! What grades?
I taught 7 - 13, so any questions you have on class management and discipline, just ask!!! Let me feel useful. I miss teaching terribly sometimes. I think I'm going to try to volunteer next year if I'm healthy enough. I gotta get my teaching fix!!!
BTW - have you read Harry Wong yet? A MUST!
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LOL! No, I ahven't read Harry Wong, but he IS on teacher.net plastered everywhere.(nor Harry Potter, what is WRONG with me...)but if you can give me a good ed author you have GOT to read Mel Levine's Myth of Laziness. He's a neurodevelopmental psychologist and has this sort of new slant on cognitive processes and how to tap into a kid's buzz...KWIM? I sound like some coffeehouse poet there, LOL.I know how cerebral you are and that spec. ed was a part of you back in he day so it'd be interesting for you. He lives in the Carolinas and is really fascinating to lsiten to. Sort of a Woody Allen type.
It's a french as a second language poisition, so I'm teaching grades 4-6 FSL and then grade 5 LA and apparently in there somewhere I must be relief for something they haven't nailed down yet. i'm sure like, let's say, 5 FSL classes, plus the LA has got to add me up to a .9FTE at least. We'll see. maybe I'll teach kindergarten PEon fridays to give a teacher a prep or something.
anyhow, i thought I was going to be one of those meandering crazy ladies with a cart full of French supplies...LOL but to know I ahve my OWN space to decorate etc, well that is SOOO exciting!
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#277158 - 08/04/06 12:41 PM
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Hey...enjoy getting your room ready. I'm not ready to go back and do mine yet but I understand the excitement.
Did I tell you I'll be teaching French this year, too? Both Spanish and French. I hate that. It's too much for my brain in a day to switch between 3 languages. Arghhh. I don't know what levels yet but they're all high school.
Enjoy!
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That is farrrr too much. i have no idea how Kayleigh switches from Dora the Explorer to her french "Emergency" preschool then back to English. Amazing. I'm going to be working on speaking more French to her.
Sigh, that was a really neat thing about letting her meet jason, he was francophone and only spoke french to his daughter...and kayleigh and he were speaking French and it was so cute.
Actually, on our day out with the girls, someone stopped me and asked "So, does your husband speak only French to your daughters, and you only speak english?" Jason and I looked at each other with this WHAAAATTTT??? look, and I paused and said "Um...uh...Yeah. basically that's how it works. " We got in the car and laughed our butts off.
I broke down and text messaged him to please be safe on his mountain trek this weekend, as I know he's cycling through them in a race this weekend...and told him I'm sending out prayers, but I will still promise to give him his space.
Right away he replied with a thank you and a promise to be careful. That took about 20 pounds off of my heart, because if he was a total jerk, he wouldn't bother to reply, and I think I'd have forgotten him right then and there. Weird how when you're with someone and you DON'T sleep with them they become more meaningful than if you DO in a short time.... So not how the old shannon would operate.
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You must read the HARRYS!!!! All of them! I found Harry Wong didn't work the greatest in the beginning as a new teacher, but as I got confidence and tapped into my aggressive side (didn't know I had), it worked very well.
As for Harry Potter - my favourite books EVER (even tops Gone With The Wind!)
Another book : Why Gender Matters. (don't remember the authors) but a fascinating book about how boys and girls learn differently and why they are the way they are.
See if your school/board has a copy of Wong you can borrow.
PS - I met Harry and Rosemary Wong - I went to a workshop of theirs. It was supposed to be only for 1st year teachers in my board, but when my principal saw how disappointed I was (I was a 2nd year and not allowed to go), and knew what a fan I was, he argued to his superiors who allowed me to go. I hugged the man.He was a great principal.
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#277175 - 08/04/06 01:39 PM
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I know about the languages and kids thing. Mine have refused to learn until now of course that some of their teachers are teaching it. NOW, it's cool.
Glad to hear you're giving Jason the space. Glad he replied quickly. Just don't text too often. Well, you know that already, I'm sure.
So now, it's 4:30 and I'm waiting for the mailman to get here already! Apparently my class schedule is in the mail. I'll finally find out for sure what I'm teaching in Sept!
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