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my 6 1/2 year old is not driven to read.. she gets bored and distracted.
She sounds out words, but forgets them almost as soon as she reads them!!
I'm reading to her age appropriate chapter books and anything else she's interested in.. but she's a tech-geek type kid, wants to play on websites and stuff..
Do y'all have any ideas (other than starfall) to help KEEP her interested in reading??
**we've been homeschooling since March, and I don't want to think this is a reflection of MY teaching.
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I wanted you to know you are not alone. My dd is 7 and sounds exactly like yours  She LOVES Starfall, too.
I am trying to relax but she is getting older and it doesn't seem right to me. I also think it is my teaching. Ds was reading at 4--but I think that was him, more than me.
But how to inspire, get them to at least like reading?
I would love to ditch all media (videos, TV, computer) as when ds was little I had a personal thing that he would not know about that stuff until he was reading. But life is so different now....
I'll be back for suggestions. Thanks for posting, Krystin.
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I'm working with my second distractible 'reading is work, the computer is much more fun' six year old dd.
Things I've learned.
1)Use the computer as a carrot. It may be a bit upsetting at first but establishing that reading practice with regular books comes first will help in the long run.
2)On this note, it helps to couple their reading practice with you reading to them. As I tell my children, you read to me then I'll read to you. My share of the bargain hasn't always been story books it all depends on what in particular the child enjoys (we have a good selection of science books due to my oldest dd, my second dd really enjoys classic myths and fairytales, my third dd likes books with interesting pictures particularly nature and picture study...).
3)On this note it's well worth looking for leveled readers that contain material that your child will find interesting. It's much easier to get a child to do the hard work of learning to read that way. (with my last child that has meant moving to the Art-Literature readers once she had a basic grasp of phonics)
4)A helpful thing to do is to focus on learning just one new word at a time (using flashcards, highlighting the word in the books read...) while simply sounding out any other problem words in the reader for the child and continuing to work on phonics. This breaks a major task into something much more easily done. When introducing the new word, focus on differences and similarities with known words.
4)My dd is still very distractible. As long as she is working and making progress, even if it's only a word at a time, it's not a major problem.
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and it really is ok for kids to start reading later. My oldest wasn't reading hardly at all at the end of 3rd grade. At the end of 4th grade she was reading at grade level, and at the end of 6th grade she was reading at 8th grade level. 
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JodieLyn wrote:
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This was basically my thought as I was reading your post. Some kids are just not ready at age 5, 6, or 7 to do a lot of (or really any) reading. Of my oldest kids, only one of them began reading fluently at age 6. The other 3 just didn't really begin reading in earnest until closer to age 8. Even my oldest dd, who will be 10 next week, has only in this past school year really begun to take off with reading. There are kids out there who read really well at a really young age, but that has never been my experience with my own children. And in the end analysis, I don't think it matters unless you suspect some kind of learning disability that needs addressing. But most of the time it's just that the child is a perfectly normal child who will read later than some other children and nothing more.
One piece of advice I would offer is to keep reading lessons SHORT. If I have not learned anything else from the CM approach to education, it is that lessons with young children should be kept brief. A couple of materials you could look into would be Alpha Phonics or Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Mother of Divine Grace 1st Grade syllabus breaks "Teach Your Child to Read" down further into even shorter lessons than the book itself does, so it would take about 10 minutes per lesson, 4 days per week.
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