�I have enjoyed pre schooling my kid. �I think it would be boring to just teach reading. �We do reading, writing, and 'rithmatic. �We don't do much in a day. �We don't schedule lessons for the week. �We go out of order when learning things. �We don't wait for one thing to finish before we learn another. �
Mine's not a fluent reader, but he is a reader. �He has read 3 books out loud.. Mr. Brown can moo, can you? �Fly high fly guy.. And I forgot the other one. �Lol. �I'm not counting the "I am Sam" books. � He's not reading for pleasure, he's reading for phonics. � He sounds out words. �He's not fluid. �I think it sounds beautiful. �
We're simultaneously working on comprehension questions with this textbook a neighbor gave me called Up and Over focus book. �I just googled it and the book's from 1985, hmm.. So are my childhood educational theories-...which i formed, of course, in my childhood. �I'm no professional. �I'm just a mom.
I'm reading to him from "the boxcar children" purely for pleasure. �
I want him to enjoy learning the way the schools like to teach things, if I can help that happen.
That readingeggs site shows you a lot of ways to improve reading and writing, speed, fluency, typing, composition, comprehension (the elementary schoolbook type comprension questions, not the literature discussions type). �
I guess this post doesn't help foster the love of reading but the love of learning in the way that the school's most likely to offer it. �There are better ways of teaching -constructivism or unschooling, child-led, or self-taught. �Really depends on what you want. �If you're going to send your kid to school it's better not to teach them much of anything so they have more left to learn there. �Me, I'm trying to give my kid enough of an education that "the fire's lit", that he will go on learning insatiably no matter what. �Then I think I'll send him to school anyway, if they'll have him.
