DS in showing signs of boredom, I am showing signs of loosing it, and he's asking about reading.
Recently I wrote something out in my multialphabeticly idiosyncratic longhand and put it up on his wall (I'm memorizing it for a performance, good way to remember to recite it regularly). DH joked "don't learn to read from THAT." And next you knew we were talking about what to do about DS's wanting to learn to read.
He's not ready to actually read; I didn't until I had spec ed in grade 2 and the apple may not fall far from this tree (his dad read at early 2, but he seems to be more on my path with this one). His interest is also a bit atypical: so far, from his questioning we've had impromptu lessons on topics such as "word boundaries," "place value," and "periods/commas." (writing of numbers seems to be a particular curiosity)
We're thinking of posting alphabets/numerals in his room, maybe English, Old English, Hebrew, maybe a sylabary.... We're thinking of doing groupings of letters with varous fonts and handwritten forms. Basically, we think he might be interested in working out the boundaries of things like "what's an 'a'?" "What's a letter/number?"
Anyone have any suggestions about either some kind of reading curriculum that proceeds this way, and might give us some ideas, or about other kids with these kinds of interests? Other kids with an interest in reading that overshoots the real abilily to sit down and learn methodically? I'm not 100% sure I can still see the questions on this track. It took me a long time, for eg, to sort out that he was asking me about word boundaries & hadn't a sence of it in either speech or text.
Thanks guys!
-Mich
