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    #116720 11/21/11 09:55 AM
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    Hanni (3.5) is a terrible interrupter when I'm reading aloud. With a new book, it can easily take me 5 to 10 tries to get through a single sentence; and then the fun starts again with the next sentence. It's all questions connected to the reading, and it's as if she can't move on until she's completely worked it through.

    The questions decrease with subsequent re-readings, and I know it's time to return a book to the library when I'm allowed to read the whole thing through from start to finish!

    I guess I'm happy to encourage all the cognitive connections she's making, but it's aggravating because it's just so RUDE! I also worry about her doing the same thing at preschool, where it's not all about her. At home I'm working on her to at least wait till the end of a sentence, but even that is a struggle.

    Anyone else have this problem?

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    I mostly remember it from when DS was beginning to read himself - which decreases the rudeness factor, but yes, I remember the frustration! In fact here's something I wrote in my journal when he was 3y9m:
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    This evening [DS] read the first two pages and a bit of the chapter of Little House in the Big Woods which is called Christmas. [omitted, stuff about which words I had to help him on] But in the course of the two pages these are some of the questions he asked:

    - why was the house almost buried in snow?
    - why don't we have that much snow in [where we live]?
    - why did he want to make a path to the barn?
    - what's an icicle?
    - why are there lights in the icicle?
    - will the sun make the icicle melt now? why not?
    - why does his breath hang in the air like smoke?
    - why does it catch in his beard? [and lots of physics following...]
    - is the bear friendly, or fierce? [oops, it was a "bear's hug", so definite comprehension problem there, but at least he realised he was confused!]
    - what's sandpaper?
    - if it's rough, why can it make things smooth?
    - what's silk?
    - why does the caterpillar make thread?
    - why did he have his jack-knife with him?
    He did grow out of asking quite so many questions! ETA but as you can probably guess, we didn't make it all the way through the book at that time! He did enjoy the bits he read, though.

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    Reading ColinsMum's post about the Little House in the Big Woods brought back a lot of memories about reading that series to DD9 when she was 4. I honestly thought, at times, that we were NEVER going to make it through the book. The chapters are relatively short but we struggled to get through just one in the 30 minutes before bedtime. Anne of Green Gables was ten times worse. I gave up after five chapters and she finished it herself in grade three.

    DS3 does not ask any questions at all when we read to him. It is quite enjoyable, but it makes me wonder how much he is comprehending?


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    Originally Posted by kathleen'smum
    DS3 does not ask any questions at all when we read to him. It is quite enjoyable, but it makes me wonder how much he is comprehending?

    DD6 only occasionally interrupts me, even when I know we just read something she won't understand. When I see those, I stop myself and ask her if she knows what that means, she'll say no, and I'll explain it. For example, bedtime reading right now is the Harry Potter series, and I know she has no background for the British slang terms they use.

    I think it's more of a case of just enjoying the experience and not worrying about the little things. As she goes on she'll start understanding these things when she sees them in context, so I'm not concerned. She does stop me when she misses something she thinks is important.

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    Originally Posted by ColinsMum
    In fact here's something I wrote in my journal when he was 3y9m:
    Ha! That's exactly like Hanni! We've been reading a book called How To Dig A Hole To The Other Side Of The World.

    -Why does the digging get harder? Sand is easy to dig.
    -Why does the friend need to pull the dirt out in a bucket?
    -Why should you save bones that you find?
    -Why is she using a drilling machine? Kids aren't really allowed to use that kind of machine, are they?
    -Why is she wearing a diving suit? Is that water? Why is it brown? Is it ewwy?
    -Is she going to snuggle up to the rocks because they're warm?
    -What's a geyser? Did she get shot out of the geyser?
    -Why can't she keep digging in the same hole where the geyser is?
    -Is she in the volcano? Is she going to get shot out of the volcano?
    -Is her submarine going to burn up? If it burns up, will she be in the hot magma?
    -Why do they call it the "inner core" and the "outer core"?

    And so on. And so on. And so on.

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    Lol, it's nice to be reminded of that age, actually! When it's a memory, it'll be a good one :-)


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