'supporting each other through really tough times'

boultdj

Yehhy for Miss Stiltwalker, and if you follow Memory Girl, blog called Mortgage Free in Three, is did something with sandpaper to help her youngest, only thing is I can't seam to do a link again[ I realy must learn how to use the computor], think it was letter's and number's cut out so he could work on his math & spelling.hth

silvasava

Lovely 'Lump of Cuddle' as my gran used to say Peanut

The_Dragon

boultdj wrote: »

Yehhy for Miss Stiltwalker, and if you follow Memory Girl, blog called Mortgage Free in Three, is did something with sandpaper to help her youngest, only thing is I can't seam to do a link again[ I realy must learn how to use the computor], think it was letter's and number's cut out so he could work on his math & spelling.hth

I think THIS is the post you meant

boultdj

That's the 1, Thank you, Dragon, you a star.

The_Dragon

boultdj wrote: »

That's the 1, Thank you, Dragon, you a star.

Not a problem! I am just glad I could find it

CRANKY40

I'm not convinced she's going to have a problem with the little words Stiltwalker. I would just stick up a, an, the, and and so on, maybe a different one each day and tell her what they are. We had something similar when I was at school called "breakthrough". It was a folder with lots of different words and a holder like you get on a scrabble game. You just picked the words you wanted and put them in the holder to make a sentence. Your velcro version sounds perfect for Miss Stiltwalker.

monnagran

Stilwalker: It sounds to me that Miss S isn't going to need much teaching. I've taught thousands of children to read in my time and some of them just seem to teach themselves. Being surrounded by words appears to do it for them. Phonics is an important tool for tackling unfamiliar words and anything like the sandpaper cutouts and stories like the Letterland ones (are they still around?) helps with that. This is a bright little star you have there, treasure her.

Such lovely weather today and I'm slaving over a hot computer. I'm itching to get out into the garden but trying not to procrastinate. Church Magazines don't write themselves.

Back to it!

x

stiltwalker

Thanks for finding that post guys - interesting reading.

Cranky - it's not so much about DD having a problem with the little words but more about her being able to demonstrate (to school) that she can read those words when for much of the time her verbal clarity is so poor as to be almost incomprehensible. She won't be able to read a reading book out loud in the conventional manner. I suppose once she is putting her own sentences together using Velcro/scrabble holder (good idea thanks) she will put the little words in and they will just have to take it as read (as it were! lol!) that she is also reading those words.

MrsCD

Hello everyone - sorry I haven't been around for a while. Is it ok to come back????

Spring must be on its way - we cut the lawn today for the first time this year :T I weeded the little patch by the front door, so now we can actually see the pretty flowers from the bulbs I planted ages ago.

Pops - glad your anniversary went well. We often remember MIL and FIL when we see something on TV that they would have liked/or not, and whenever we say/do something they would have said/done. We don't feel sad anymore; we just remember with each other what they meant to us and have a smile instead.

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HELEN I've picked DD1s brains about what we did to teach her and little sister to read and she has suggested two things that might help - we used a very old fashioned reading scheme with her before she started school - Ladybird Books Peter and Jane Books - they are pictures and words but in a cumulative way - there will be a picture of Peter with the name underneath, then a picture of Jane with the name underneath then a picture of Peter and Jane together with Peter and Jane underneath etc.etc she remembers also that we wrote out the separate words on pieces of paper and to start with she recognised the words from the pictures in the book and soon could make her own sentences using just the written words on paper (does that make sense?). The other thing she says might be useful is a Junior Scrabble Game - not to play it yet but to use the letter tiles on the holders to help Little Miss make words and learn letter sounds. Her own suggestion, she will have a chat with Learning Support for the Junior School and see if they can give any ideas that might help so will pass on anything she gets as soon as she tells it to me, Cheers Lyn xxx.