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- From: murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy)
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- Subject: Re: Parental Involvement in Reading
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- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:15:35 GMT
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- In article <00722044617@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com>, elg@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
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- |> attitude seems to be "It's the school's job to raise my children, I gotta
- |> work for a living." In the meantime, well... so it goes.
- I am facing the opposite problem. My daughter (6yrs old and in 1st grade)
- can read reasonably well and she likes to read to us. I do not have time
- to select books for her everyday, and I would like the teacher to assign her
- two books a day to read. The teacher agrees when I meet her but she does not
- follow through.
-
- It is difficult to buy that many books. Her level of reading is
- constantly improving. She will not read anything with more than one
- difficult word/sentence. But `difficult' keeps changing.
-
- I guess I will have to go down to the library with her and get the books
- myself.
-
- I have concluded that school is a place where my daughter socializes for
- 6 hours and that she learns things at home for 2 hours.
-
- I am not trying to force my daughter to do things she does not want to.
- She is intrigued by challenges and she likes to succeed. Who does not!
- If we do not challenge her she will miss the positive reinforcement that
- comes with trying something hard and then succeeding. The problem is
- to find something not so hard that she will fail but something slightly
- difficult.
-
- If she refuses to do something we just leave her alone. Eventually she
- decides that she wants to do it and gets it done. Her current favorite
- activity is reading.
-
- Anyway I am having fun.
-
- This summer I am thinking of putting together a small robot with her.
- (Photovore It take about 30 hours assembly. So it should take us
- a few weeks together, with her learning soldering etc.) I will tell you how
- it turns out. My other project is to teach her to read Kannada (our mother
- tongue). My wife is planning on teaching her dance and music.
- Should be a fun summer.
-
- Sorry for rambling on ..
-
- Regards.
- Sesh Murthy
-