Mummy I can read 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yep, lesson seven of 100 easy lessons and we tackled our first putting two letters together to get a whole real word…. Then the second one was se (which with 100EL is pronounced ‘see’) and then we tackled a three letter one (shamlessly leaping ahead to a bit of tomorrow lesson at his insistence as he had a lightbulb moment and suddenly ‘got it’ and wanted to do more and did ‘mat’. Cue one very happy little boy who is very pleased with himself and me who may have had a couple of false starts with getting the book in the first place, and felt like I was totally patronising both him and I sitting there saying ‘aaaaaatttttt say it fast at’ in a very slow voice. Wherever we go from here we have at least got the grounding block of him understanding the mechanics of reading – in just one week 🙂 I aim to complete as much of the book as we can get through all the time it is working for us. I would say that it is probably like everything – it will either work for you or not and the child needs to be ready to learn too, but so far it is a great tool for making it feel like an achievable task, prompting us to give it a small period of time each day and giving us a sense of making progress every day too.
I’m glad it’s good for you – it is very much a love it or hate it method though I found (and guess who hated it?)
Comment by jax — 30 January 2005 @ 11:11 pm
Woohoo! Way to go Davies 🙂 Hope you both carry on enjoying it for a good while yet 🙂
Tilda and I didn’t get very far with it (couple of weeks worth I guess), though that was due to my laziness more than any objections on her part!
The thing I do really like about it is the ‘mmmm’s and ‘aaaaa’s for the sounds of the letters, rather than muh and ah – makes it SO much easier for blending them into words!
Comment by Alison — 30 January 2005 @ 11:16 pm
Yep, if you can bear the americanisms the actual phonics method is second to none, I think. Abbie and I got about half way through before she and I both got a bit bored, but by then she’d sort of got the hang of reading anyway.
Joe’s been learning with a very much look and say method from Start Right up until now and he’s still a bit hazy on sounding things out, which I actually think is the more important skill.
Anyway, well done to you and Davies, long may it last!
Comment by Sarah — 31 January 2005 @ 7:35 am
Well done him 🙂 Alison – I’m so glad to have had someone with my aversion to the uh on the end of constonants. It drives me mad, but I noticed in nursey, even the staff did it. Spent ages undoing the “huh for Hannah” bit. Grr.
Comment by Joyce — 31 January 2005 @ 7:50 am
Oh count me in on the uh-aversion! I cringe every time they do it on cbeebies. And yeahhhhh to Davies 🙂
Comment by Barbara — 31 January 2005 @ 8:40 am
Really glad 100EL is working thus far, Joe has no resentment in doing the book, and Tiegan enjoys it too, but I think for her part it is rather ‘I’m doing what my hero worship big brother is doing’ rather than her just liking the book 🙂
Keep up the updates, I’m really enjoying reading about the journey and it may even make me get my arse in gear to get into a regular routine with Joe again!
Comment by Jules — 31 January 2005 @ 9:30 am
Well done Davies.
Comment by Karen b — 31 January 2005 @ 11:03 am