Little or Beyond?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:07 pm
My ds, who will be 6 in July, is on the last leg of his K year in public school. According to standard, he is on-target. Not ahead or behind. Since we will be homeschooling next, I'm still agonizing over where to place him.
According to the placement chart, he is technically suited for Beyond. He is pretty good with single-letter phonics, but not good with blended phonics at all. He still sounds out most of what he reads (other than a list of 20 sight words) and just doesn't grasp chunking words together. He doesn't see the word 'at' in cat or the words 'an' and 'other' in another.
He is learning to write a simple sentence, but must be coached the entire time to spell out the words. He does know some punctuation (. ! ?) and to capital letters for names and at the beginning of a sentence.
He is simply not a confident reader. He >thinks< he is "not good at school".
He is pretty good with numbers, comfortably counts to 40, to 25 by 5s, to 100 by 10s, and backward from 10. He is just in the last few days grasping the concepts of ordinality and addition.
But I'm not worried about math. I'm worried about reading. I'm just not sure he's ready for Emerging Readers. I don't want to push him too hard, but at the same time, I don't want to stifle him with things he already knows.So, I guess I'm saying he's somewhere between Little and Beyond. Wondering if I should do LHFHG with extensions for 1st grade. What about reading in LHFHG...and phonics/spelling? How does it compare to BLHFHG? Is there any copywork in BLHFHG? He really needs the practice. Help a Mama out with her middle child!! :
(I also have a ds-8 in April- who will be doing Bigger DITHOR with some 4th grade extension books. He is advanced in every subject with a beautiful photographic memory! And a dd-3 in July- with a remarkable vocabulary!)
According to the placement chart, he is technically suited for Beyond. He is pretty good with single-letter phonics, but not good with blended phonics at all. He still sounds out most of what he reads (other than a list of 20 sight words) and just doesn't grasp chunking words together. He doesn't see the word 'at' in cat or the words 'an' and 'other' in another.
He is learning to write a simple sentence, but must be coached the entire time to spell out the words. He does know some punctuation (. ! ?) and to capital letters for names and at the beginning of a sentence.
He is simply not a confident reader. He >thinks< he is "not good at school".
He is pretty good with numbers, comfortably counts to 40, to 25 by 5s, to 100 by 10s, and backward from 10. He is just in the last few days grasping the concepts of ordinality and addition.
But I'm not worried about math. I'm worried about reading. I'm just not sure he's ready for Emerging Readers. I don't want to push him too hard, but at the same time, I don't want to stifle him with things he already knows.So, I guess I'm saying he's somewhere between Little and Beyond. Wondering if I should do LHFHG with extensions for 1st grade. What about reading in LHFHG...and phonics/spelling? How does it compare to BLHFHG? Is there any copywork in BLHFHG? He really needs the practice. Help a Mama out with her middle child!! :
(I also have a ds-8 in April- who will be doing Bigger DITHOR with some 4th grade extension books. He is advanced in every subject with a beautiful photographic memory! And a dd-3 in July- with a remarkable vocabulary!)