Posted By Faith and Family Books on March 8, 2010

I am excited! On the reading front, we are farther ahead than I thought with our oldest son! You don’t know what a breakthrough this is for us! Remember how I said that there was a disconnect with our boys between their sounds and their letters; well, on Friday night our middle son was saying words that started with the same sound and stating it just like that – For example he’d go, “rrr-oad and rrr-ock; both start with rrrr.” He did this a few times and I could only attribute this connection to the repetitive online reading activities they have been doing for the last two weeks.

Last night, I found the book I use to teach reading under a pile of stuff. So this morning I went to restart our oldest son with it and he kind of balked at it, so I told him if he could read the last story in the book for me I wouldn’t make him re-do the whole book again. To be honest, I wasn’t really expecting that he’d be able to do it, but guess what? He did! He still needs practice with his sounds so I think the daily online activities will help with that, plus daily reading time with me. But for not having looked at the reading book in about a year, he did very well. We even called his daddy at work to share the good news. I told our son to tell Robert after he read his last couple of sentences to his dad to tell his dad that he was finished with his reading book! So we are extremely pleased, to say the least, and excited that the break from learning to read did more good than harm – those of you who homeschool will know exactly what I mean. And again, I am reminded of how blessed we are to homeschool and allow our children to learn at their own pace.

We are going to start our oldest son with A Child’s History of the Battles of America by Josephine Pollard because he loves history … a love he shares with his dad. We also have to unpack our Amish readers that tell lots of stories about family and farm life. Our girls really enjoyed those books.

Praise God for breakthroughs!

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Tags: A Child's History of the Battles of America, History, Homeschooling, Josephine Pollard, Readers, Reading, Teaching Children to Read