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Originally Posted by bridgie
Thank u all so much for your suggestions and information. My son is 8 years old and knows quite a bit. He reads these hard words then messes up the simple words like you. I got him some choose your own adventure books to read together. And he has enjoyed a few magic tree house. I think I feel worse because I actually work with books and love them and I can't help him with something as important as this.
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Bridgie, please take note:
I have a wonderful well-adjusted honor-roll sophmore son who would rather read a book than watch a movie or play video games. He didn't learn this from me. There were some things he let me teach him but I did not push reading on him at an early age. Many parents were making their three and four year olds learn to read but I was more interested in him learning social skills at that age. I figured the academic learning would naturally come later.
And it did. Ever since he entered school, he would rather figure things out for himself than have me help him with his learning. Don't know why, because I was a licensed teacher. It was the fact that I was his mother. Kinda like having a husband or wife teach their spouse how to drive? Never works. He wouldn't let me show him how to ride his bicycle either. He did it by himself. He fell off twice, and the third time flew away.
Occasionally, he would ask me to help him with something but, truthfully, it was only when he wanted answers to things that he didn't really care about (like grammar) and really didn't care about how to find the answer, he just wanted the answer! And, to be honest, it was his half-sister and her husband who taught him to love reading. His sister reads ALL the time and her husband is an English teacher at his high school. His reading didn't get really strong until 7th grade.
I also play guitar. But not the kind of guitar he wanted to play. So, we paid for him to take lessons. I was disappointed because he never learned to read guitar music (as in notes on a scale) like I did so he had me buy him some books and he taught himself how to read guitar music.
I wouldn't stress so much about this. He's only 8 and things can change a lot. I had trouble reading during part of my schooling (it was the teaching method they used) and I have a high IQ. I feel like I never really learned to read for content really well until college. It sounds like you are doing lots of things for him so give yourself a break, it will happen soon enough.