It's always a miracle to me how after a few months they can read. In the meantime, a syllable is being added to the syllable but soon the reading will be fluent.
Reading like speech is learned at an unbelievable pace, though some fare better than others. I remember learning to read ... we sat in a circle in the classroom and read one after the other. It was easy to work out which sentence was 'the one' and how I hoped I knew all the words. Now reading is easy and so very enjoyable. Sadly some children are so disadvantaged they have too little time to become competent readers and because of that fail to enjoy books etc.
He has some difficulties and therefore waited a year in the kindergarten, but here is the miracle. However, reading is very important to him and he likes to do homework.
I had a heck of a time with a basic Japanese course due to having to learn a new alphabet (actually three of them). I would imagine that, coming from a latin script, trying to learn Hebrew could be just as challenging, however fun. I have always wanted to learn (transliterated) Yiddish. I think sometimes at various JCCs around the Bay Area one could!
Here in schools we learn from an early age English, later also French and Arabic. I spoke German with one of my grandmothers and Yiddish I heard a lot on the street where I lived as a child, so I soon learned the language because of the resemblance to German.
One of my granddaughters was reading at three. You could see the yearning in her to know, so my sister bought her the elementary texts and off she went. This one eventually skipped a grade.
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The speed that children learn is impressive. They have a time-limit for the basics.
ReplyDeleteIn Hebrew they also have to pass the punctuated phase in words.
DeleteI would have problems with Hebrew now, like many of my older Jewish friends who have moved to Israel over the years.
DeleteMy grandmother came to Israel at an early age from Germany, never managed to learn a good Hebrew, all our communication was in German.
DeleteI can remember being taught to read and that build up each day of another syllable on the syllable of the day before. It is truly a miracle.
ReplyDeleteI think I've always been able to read, I do not remember this stage.
ReplyDeleteReading like speech is learned at an unbelievable pace, though some fare better than others. I remember learning to read ... we sat in a circle in the classroom and read one after the other. It was easy to work out which sentence was 'the one' and how I hoped I knew all the words. Now reading is easy and so very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteSadly some children are so disadvantaged they have too little time to become competent readers and because of that fail to enjoy books etc.
He has some difficulties and therefore waited a year in the kindergarten, but here is the miracle. However, reading is very important to him and he likes to do homework.
DeleteI had a heck of a time with a basic Japanese course due to having to learn a new alphabet (actually three of them). I would imagine that, coming from a latin script, trying to learn Hebrew could be just as challenging, however fun. I have always wanted to learn (transliterated) Yiddish. I think sometimes at various JCCs around the Bay Area one could!
ReplyDeleteHere in schools we learn from an early age English, later also French and Arabic. I spoke German with one of my grandmothers and Yiddish I heard a lot on the street where I lived as a child, so I soon learned the language because of the resemblance to German.
ReplyDeleteOne of my granddaughters was reading at three. You could see the yearning in her to know, so my sister bought her the elementary texts and off she went. This one eventually skipped a grade.
ReplyDeleteChildren are so different at the pace and speed at which they learn, in the end everything is fine.
DeleteI taught my three children to read and write. I also taught them to read and write upside-down. They all enjoyed the process.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably a very talented teacher.
DeleteIt was just yesterday I was reading to our youngest granddaughter and now at six she insists on reading to Poppi.
ReplyDeleteTime flies to all of us.
DeleteThey learn so quick - and then there is a whole new world opening - books...
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful invention. I'm glad about that, too.
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