{"id":9299,"date":"2013-08-16T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=9299"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T23:43:07","slug":"how-teaching-my-daughter-helped-me-to-read-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/how-teaching-my-daughter-helped-me-to-read-better\/","title":{"rendered":"How Teaching My Daughter Helped Me to Read Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disclaimer this is not my normal post. Today’s is a post about me. I don’t talk about me often but this time I’m going to just a little bit. (Warning lots of text that may not all look right.)<\/p>\n

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Many years ago if you told me I would be blogging and making printables, I would have said not a chance. I have to work hard to try and make sure my sentences make sense. One of the hardest things for me to do is read and write. (This is one reason why I don’t often have long blog posts.) I have a very bad reading problem. I’m dyslexic with words. I write and read them out of order at times. I struggled all through school and even college.<\/p>\n

One of my biggest fears is reading out loud. What do we spend a great amount of time doing as a parent? Reading out loud. I dread this still. When reading out loud in a class or group setting I would figure out what I was going to have to read and read it over several times. I would take the time to check the words that looked strange to me and trying to get the pronunciation correct.<\/p>\n

Writing is also a struggle. I would mix up words or the word would be correct just the wrong tense. (I’m positive you have seen that on this blog if you have been reading a while.) Often times if I write a word to many times it looks completely wrong and I keep trying to fix it so it looks right, but still looks wrong. After a fast dictionary or spell check and I get the right word and it still looks wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was a new mom with my first baby. The advice given me to was to read to her often. I was happy to do it, but made a lot of mistakes in reading. Even books I read a lot of the time. My husband would read the book out loud to my oldest and suddenly I would realize I had been reading it wrong or he would correct me. It made me want to cry, but instead tried to remember what the word was and tried to sound it out to see what I did wrong. I spent time looking over all the books before reading them to make sure I was reading them right. I was not going to let my problems stop me from reading to my kids. After we got more books and we would read a lot of the same books over and over.\u00a0 Yes, it was boring, but\u00a0reading over and over builds stronger reading skills.<\/p>\n

The books in the house grew and 2 more girls came along.\u00a0 I got to keep reading the same books and it was a happy time. I was improving in my sight reading and did not have as hard a time. It was not easy but I tried to progress forward. Even reading my own books was getting slightly easier. I will admit to after library trips reading over the books the girls got before I read them out loud. I put a few books back because it had lots of words and was harder for me to read. Yes, I could read it to me just fine and make less mistakes but out loud to them was still not as easy.<\/p>\n

Keeping track of where you are in a book as asking questions is hard. I’ve lost my place while reading a book more than\u00a0few times. But I did learn a few tricks to keep track of where I was:<\/p>\n