Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Learning to Read

 

At home, we are working with Silas on learning to read in English. Thanks to a wonderful resource called Easy Peasy Homeschool, we were introduced to McGuffey's Eclectic Primer and the idea of learning to read by sight even before jumping into phonics in depth. I'll be the first to admit that teaching my own child to read terrifies me, but Silas has such a desire to learn and demonstrates such enthusiasm and insistence that it has been exciting.

He is only on Lesson 4 but each day he has been introduced to four new words and several new sentences. He practices online and then we write in this little book. Throughout the day, Silas takes the book to multiple family members to practice reading the new and old words. Thankfully, he has longsuffering siblings! I am thankful for the joy of guiding and watching him learn.



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