Lessons Monday June 25
Read 68 – 84 of Dragonflight, by Anne Mccaffrey
What is a cavern?
What egg is unhatched?
What is sweetsand?
-How do you use it?
What is used as a bathtub?
Who is Nemorth?
What is a Hatching Ground?
How many eggs were there at the Hatching Ground?
What are 2 things Flar told Lessa to be aware of before the Hatching?
How old were the boys at the Hatching?
What color is the biggest egg?
What is Lessa’s hatched dragons name? How did Lessa find out?
Problem Words
Attitude
sympathies
piteously
convulsively
involuntary
Hooked on Phonics – discovered this morning it’s the Learn to read version, lol. But I’m going to have him do it,
if only to refresh.
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The reading thing isn’t going as smoothly as I wished. I was hoping that my son would take an interest in the books I selected for reading – they have dragons in them – but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
With the freakin FCAT over our heads, while he has learned to read, he was taught shortcuts – or how to cheat – early in the learning stage of reading. So now, instead of reading, he looks for “words”, and thus, doesn’t read a whole paragraph or a section. And then he doesn’t get why he didn’t comprehend what he was reading.
It’s frustrating – especially since I had such a love of reading when I was young, and I still do. I didn’t learn of shortcuts until high school or college, and then I used them properly, if at all.
It’s also frustrating for him. He thinks he’s stupid – and he’s not. But the reading difficulties he is experiencing is hindering him in everything.
I blame the government and the mandatory FCAT for this – and I’m not the only one. It’s no wonder our society is regressing in education. Let’s teach them to cheat so their test scores look really really good!
If I could afford Sylvan Learning Centers, or another tutor, I would do so, but I can’t. When I was growing up, Dade County used to offer a “reading clinic” for free. My brother went 5 days a week until his reading improved. This no longer happens. If you need something like this, ya gotta pay for it.
Sucks.
Anyway, I’m thinking about changing tactics a bit. I’m going to look thru his books, read these as well but make him come up with questions for me. A little way for him to “get back” at me. Plus, he needs to work on his writing skills. He’s way too fond of copying his summary out of the book.
[tags]anne mccaffrey, dragonflight, dragons, reading, fcat, books, hooked on phonics[/tags]