[Danhi] Reading Tips

[Dave Allen Barker Jr]

I shared with Audrey a reading tip that I thought may be of interest.  
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On 10/17/2012 11:00 PM, Dave Allen Barker Jr wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 03:38 PM, Adelson, Audrey wrote:
>>
>> I did some AR tests with about half of the class. Julia is awesome at 
>> reading!! She did hers completely on her own! How did you teach her 
>> to read like that? Suggestions are welcome! Alex is doing well but 
>> not on his own like that.
>>
> I've been asked that before, and the only thing I can come up with 
> (beyond luck of the genetic dice) is I've always pointed my finger at 
> the text as I read to my kids.  My theory is even before we're 
> thinking animals (letters make these sounds, this rule and that, etc), 
> we're amazing pattern recognition machines.  Kids don't need to know 
> /how/ symbols equal words in order to /read/ them.  It's like learning 
> a foreign language by immersion verses study, and the moving finger 
> immerses kids in the written word.
>
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