I don’t remember how or why I learned to read (I sort of remember being able to read at least a little at the age of two, and my mom says I learned how by watching the TV show “The Electric Company”) but I have more information about my younger brother, who was determined to learn to read because he wanted to play the same video games I did.
Yes, incentive! She’s taken to dolly dress-up Flash games of late. She can reliably identify the words “Play”, “Start” and “Click here” because she has strong personal incentive to :-D So if I can give her a good personal incentive, she’ll do the work and do it well. (Evidently, “all the stories!” isn’t enough ;-)
I’m not entirely joking here: James Paul Gee once called it “perhaps the best literacy curriculum ever conceived”, although I’m not really sure how serious he was being.
I don’t remember how or why I learned to read (I sort of remember being able to read at least a little at the age of two, and my mom says I learned how by watching the TV show “The Electric Company”) but I have more information about my younger brother, who was determined to learn to read because he wanted to play the same video games I did.
Yes, incentive! She’s taken to dolly dress-up Flash games of late. She can reliably identify the words “Play”, “Start” and “Click here” because she has strong personal incentive to :-D So if I can give her a good personal incentive, she’ll do the work and do it well. (Evidently, “all the stories!” isn’t enough ;-)
See if you can get her interested in Pokemon. :)
I’m not entirely joking here: James Paul Gee once called it “perhaps the best literacy curriculum ever conceived”, although I’m not really sure how serious he was being.