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.
