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- Subject: Re: Parental Involvement in Reading
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- From: kmushal@eis.calstate.edu (KAYE MUSHALIK)
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:51:50 GMT
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- murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy) writes:
- > In article <00722044617@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com>, elg@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >
- >
- > |> 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
-
-
- I think it is wonderful that you have such creative activities planned to
- do with your daughter this next summer. Is there some reason why you have
- so much time available for her then, but not enough time during the
- rest of the year to take an hour or so once a week to share the wonders and
- joys of picking out a weeks' worth of books to read together? Most public
- libraries allow one to check out 15-20 books at a time.
-
- Also, I'd like to ask you to do a little comparison - How many children do
- you have at home and how many are in your child's classroom?
-
- I'm not really trying to flame you. I can "see" the love and concern you
- have for your child. I only want to ask you to take another look at what
- you were saying.
-
- A concerned teacher who loves her 32 students and tries to give that
- extra encouragement***Kaye Mushalik***
-