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- My Daughters Story
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 My Daughter's Story:
- My daughter was tested at the end of 6th grade with a 3rd
grade reading level. At the beginning of 8th, she tested with
a 9th grade reading level. What changed was that we began homeschooling
and she developed her own method of learning to read.
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- Part I:
- Getting her to enjoy reading--She was not able to read a
certain book that she wanted to read during school because she
read slowly and the teachers would not allow her to count a 350
page book as 2 books (the book had to be at least 150 pages).
During the summer, she read it with an audiotaped version of
the book (It was Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery). When the tape
broke in the middle of the book, she had to finish it on her
own.
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- Part II:
- Getting her to practice reading, writing, and vocbulary (keyboarding
is extra)--She decided on her own that the book should be made
into a movie and that she would like to do it. We researched
the format for scripts at the library. She took that information
and began typing the dialogue into the computer. She typed 80
single-spaced pages in one year. So she learned computer skills
by using a word processing program, vocabulary by using the thesaurus
to find out the meanings of words she didn't know, and spelling.
Increasing her keyboarding skills was an added bonus.
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- Getting online also helped. For several months, she had a
LARGE dictionary by her side to look up words people used that
she didn't know. We found that this last put her at risk of being
intercepted by people pretending to be kids. Be wary of who is
communicating with your child.
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