Ashamed to admit it, but i dont enjoy reading with my dd1.

[misdee]

i find it so frustrating.

What age is she?

1. she started on the ORT books which i liked, but now they are doing reading 360 little books.

Why frustrating? Get some fun books and read those to her. Much jollier.

run run run.
stop stop stop.
go go go go..
hmmm..dont blame you
They are not good for the adult are they?

Big deal don't do it then. She will learn to read at school and on her own.

Do you like doing something else with her: eg music - making or playing, art, cleaning.

as long as you do something with her its cool.

I don't enjoy playing golf with my dd, so shoot me!

we go over the book, sounds out letters etc, look at the pictures and talk about it, and i do do it, but i just dont enjoy it. i never know how much help i should give her, she recongising letters and can say her alphabet, and in phonetics as well, but when faced with a word, eg we, she'll say something different. not even beginning with W.

i love reading my kids their bedtime stories tho (read a great one today called monkey puzzle)

Those Ginn 360 books are so dull. I read them myself 30yrs ago at primary school and I still see them being used in school today!
Whilst hearing her read is important, IMO, reading in 'real life' is far more so. So read and discuss leaflets, menus posters etc. This is much more likely to give her an enthusiasm for reading as well.

Then do it really fast and get it over with. Don't waste time talking about the pictures in a book that bores you both silly. Read Monkey Puzzle instead (come little monkey, come, come, come, it's time I took you home to....MUM!) Books are for enjoying.

and then we haveto write in her yellow book about how well she has done. i just feel like writing, 'book was dull, so we read Going on a bear hunt instead'

Oh, that would be so cool! I dare you!
Or you could just sign and date it instead. Bet the teachers don't read the comments anyway.

blimey dd starts bringing home books next week - is this the drudgery I have to look forward to?

Dd1 has started with this, a bit. I wouldn't bother with the pictures, just the how she puts the letters/sounds together. Myself. But am bad mother who sometimes gets fed up with reading endless bedtime stories too.

never dare me aloha

we have loads of books here which are fun, and the kids love books, but the school ones are so dull and tedious. she has had the same book for a week, and even she is bored.

was looking at the angelina balarina books and mr men ones, they are fun to read.

I vote to bin the ginn!!

Hey - do what I do, and read to your child at the supper table.....see other thread! It's a way of passing time postively when they are taking forever to eat....and a way of getting a story in before I'm completely drained of energy and patience.

I'm sure no-one could possibly enjoy those first books they get - which seem to take aaaaaaaages to read even though they are only about 8 pages long. It's that desperate feeling when they spell out the word - s..a...i...d..what does it say (thinking they are beautifully composing phonetic blends in their head)...and out comes 'Kipper' and they really look like they think they've got it right.

Ginn are AWFUL - the only thing that made it vaguely bearable for me when I did it (very very pre-synthetic phonics teaching! ) was that I was getting paid for it....

If your LO picks up on you not enjoying it, it will make little encouragement for them. If you don't like it, don't. Share something you do enjoy!

the Ginn book is from 1988 and sellotapped together. shall i give it to dd3 to chew up? she loves eating books

i got a couple of ORT books when i was in uxbridge over the holidays and dd2 has claimed them as hers. lol. dd2 also took Hippy Happy Hippos book into pre-school today.

sympathies misdee - I HATED that stage too, when they need so much help with their reading (and I was a classroom assistant for three years too so had to listen to several readers at that stage!!). Much more fun when they rattle through at the rate of knots and only need help with the odd word. DD2 is 6 (nearly 7) and has been reading fairly fluently for about 6 months now - so it won't be for too long!

I write 'DS2 and I didn't read this book because it was too boring!!' I have done this several times.

just got to get my synthetic phonics bit in but that's the advantage of getting a child to read fluently super fast - you can go on to enjoy any book and bypass all that tedious scheme crap. Ginn works by introducing words slowly - that's it's philosophy - because the words are difficult to take on board. Yes, didn't occur to them it's because they are the most ridiculous words to introduce to 5 year olds - taking pages and pages of 'here.... here..... here' did my head in!

It could be even worse, it could be soppy Peter and drippy Jane from those awful Ladybird books. Hate to think what I'd do if school ever sent them home. Burn them, maybe.

Love the idea of writing: 'This book's boring so we read Going on a Bear Hunt instead'. Oh, go on....

this si this weeks book. (Fire!)
Look!
Look! Help!
Can you help?
Can you come here?
we can help you
Stop! here is my home
can you help?
we can help you
come here
here we come
we can help
look!

So sympathise. I've had to pass the reading duties onto dh at bedtime because I get sooo frustrated!
(Have to admit ds seems to be doing much better with dh!)
Got our first Ginn book today: 'Can You?'. Looks grim.

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