{"id":68,"date":"2008-03-19T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-03-19T20:10:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T19:10:46","slug":"an-unusually-schoolish-readingspelling-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"An unusually schoolish reading\/spelling resource"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine this would be to everyone’s taste but it works for us.\u00a0 Periodically, I’ve used the word lists that can be found at the bottom of this page<\/a> with Antonia.\u00a0 (BTW, these are part of a reading program that I never joined).\u00a0 I started doing this because she’s naturally a globalising reader.\u00a0 This does have limitations as well as advantages and I’ve wanted to give her phonetic skills a nudge from time to time.\u00a0 I planned to do it very briefly, and soften the blow by making it into a game.\u00a0 I didn’t bargain on Antonia loving to read word lists.\u00a0 During the reading, she would have great fun discussing the definition of words, finding rhymes or conjugations of the same word, and putting the words in sentences.\u00a0 The strangest thing though, is that doing word lists would always spur her into renewed independent reading, whereas if I had her read with me she would consider herself done for the day.<\/p>\n

Well, she’s a bit beyond that stage, now.\u00a0 Her ‘reading grade level’ of 5.6, on the test on this same page, outstrips her actual comprehension of the vocabulary.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t do anything about her reading any more, I just let her read at her natural comprehension level.\u00a0 But it’s recently dawned on me that her spelling level in either language is barely grade-level appropriate to be generous.\u00a0 That could be a consequence of the globalising tendency also. \u00a0 So I pulled out the grade 1 word list again and started working through it.\u00a0 And guess what!\u00a0 First, she loves doing it, and second, it’s revived her interest in writing by herself.\u00a0 Yesterday, she got out a set of writing cards she was given some time ago and had polished off a couple of postcards in less than an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine this would be to everyone’s taste but it works for us.\u00a0 Periodically, I’ve used the word lists that can be found at the bottom of this page with Antonia.\u00a0 (BTW, these are part of a reading program that I never joined).\u00a0 I started doing this because she’s naturally a globalising reader.\u00a0 This … Continue reading An unusually schoolish reading\/spelling resource<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[29,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}