Reading in all capital letters
C Johnson
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Joy Karim
decided to copy it onto another piece of paper and is writing in all
Cool. She's manipulating her environment to serve her needs. School
kids would probably have to work with the computer printout even if it
didn't work well for them. Either they'd have no choice or won't see
that they have a choice. Your daughter can now focus on her acting
rather than her reading, which is brilliant!
It's probably developmental. My 13 1/2 year old daughter is not a
fluent reader yet. It helps her if words are all capped or regular
print but bigger.
My daughter loves to bake and I have written out recipes for her in
capital letters so she can bake on her own. Otherwise she has to
interupt her baking process (she seems to be in a different zone when
she's baking or creating) to ask me questions re what does this word
say, or can you read directions or whatever.
She has asked me to write out all my handwritten recipes for her in
capital letters so she can type and print them out on the computer.
It would be easier/faster for me to type it out myself but there's a
process at work here for her that I need to support.
Joy
Cilla Whatcott
enrollment opportunity. His interest is music and has his heart set on
taking some theory classes and joining their jazz band. In order to do so,
they require a standardized test score, thus he is scheduled to take the ACT
tomorrow.
Ds suffers from a significant anxiety disorder and being unschooled has
worked beautifully in helping him understand himeself and unwind from the
anxious knots quite a bit. We have looked over the material and he is fine
with all the english testing, but the math is way beyond his experience.
We have been nonchalent about it, saying just to do the algebra 1 stuff and
don't worry about the rest. It'll be fine and he can always re-take if he
wants. His ruminating, perfectionistic angst is kicking in and he begins to
globalize his fears into...." well exactly how many do I need to get
right?......why do I need to know math at all if I just want to take certain
classes?.....what if this......what if that?....how can I do any of this?"
It's painful to watch and our emphasis has been on telling him to try to
relax enough to just do what you can do and guess on the rest.
I would appreciate any input from any of you about my own thinking on this.
While I'm trying to be relaxed and be an unbiased observer here, I wonder if
I should be encouraging a little more prep for this thing. My unschooly
part says, who cares! There is more than one way to skin a cat and he'll
eventually find a way to proceed with his love of music. My other more
raised-in-the-system side says, to play the game and get what you want
there's a certain amount of rote memorization needed. Plain old buckle down
and learn the formulas, get the grade, then do what you want. I also walk
the line of throwing him into greater anxiety if I am too keen on his
performance, per se. So my attitude has always been as nonchalent as
possible in order to de-fuse his anxiety. Yet this is an example of him
getting what he wants (admission to CC) being contingent upon getting a
decent score on this standardized test.
I'm not quite sure how to view this. Should I stay in the moment on this
pre-ACT day and relax, forgetting about any thought of prepping? Or should I
be gently urging him to put in a few hours to grasp as much as he can in
preparation?
Thanks for any input,
Cilla
Sandra Dodd
pre-ACT day and relax, forgetting about any thought of prepping? Or
should I
be gently urging him to put in a few hours to grasp as much as he can in
When's his next time to take it if this one doesn't go well?
Maybe just plan on the second test, and ask him to write down as much
as he can remember of the baffling stuff (at least what the problems
looked like) right afterwards, and then work on those parts (MAYbe).
Music theory is NOT an easy class and I wouldn't recommend it for a
first college experience in any way at all whatsoever, by the way.
Not for an anxious person, unless he already has a lot of music
theory in him.
Sandra
Cilla Whatcott
Next test is Jun 14. Good suggestion to write down the stuff he couldn't
understand to go over for next test. Maybe...
And yes, he has self-taught quite a bit of theory, taken private music
lessons and adores the theory parts. Go figure! His picking up some
instruments and surging ahead on his own were the first positive signs that
unschooling can really work well. He took about 3 years to deschool!
Jennifer
--- Cilla Whatcott <homeo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> And yes, he has self-taught quite a bit of theory,
> taken private music
> lessons and adores the theory parts. Go figure! His
> picking up some
> instruments and surging ahead on his own were the
> first positive signs that
> unschooling can really work well. He took about 3
> years to deschool!
Hopefully he's already getting this from his private
teacher (unfortunately, I did not before I went to
college)
... but if you want to get some info of what college
music theory class entails and what he can start doing
to practice and prepare for it, please feel free to
e-mail me off-list. Even if he likes music theory a
lot right now, what they do in college is very
rigorous and may well throw him for a loop. For one
thing, he'll be required to sing alone in front of the
whole class on a regular basis!
Jenny
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