Reading Progress

Erika had been using an online reading system called Reading Eggs in the spring, and was pretty enamored of it. But it got to the point where it was hard for her, and she wasn't interested in going back and doing some of the previous exercises again to solidify her grasp on the earlier material, so she didn't do much with it over the summer. She was stuck on an exercise that required you to read a certain number of words in a 2-minute period and click on the corresponding picture from a grid of 16 or so choices. She really dislikes timed exercises, and hadn't much liked being put on the spot anyway. What she really wanted was for me to do it for her, but although I'm willing to give her some help with Reading Eggs, I felt like this was an exercise she really just needed to be able to pass on her own.

So she took a hiatus from Reading Eggs. In the intervening time, we've been reading the Beginner Phonics books from Progressive Phonics and playing the associated memory games. She's also been working her way through the first box of BOB books we bought at Costco a few weeks ago ("Collection 1") and has gotten through 12 of them. During this time, she's also gotten a lot more "teachable" -- she previously seemed to feel like she ought to know everything without any help.

Anyway, today she went back to Reading Eggs, and after needing a little encouragement to get through that first exercise in egg 70, she flew through the rest of the egg, which required genuine reading on her part, and easily passed the quiz at the end of map 7. Yay, Erika!