You probably don't think about it much since you learned to read, but decoding English is tricky. Of course there are rules that my students and I live by, but as we all know, sometimes those rules can lead you astray.
Today, one of my second graders was decoding along, when he got stuck on the word "tired." Like the good little reader I trained him to be, he quickly began breaking the word apart. Unfortunately, rather than finding the "tire" inside the word and applying the silent e rule, he broke it into "t-ir-ed," and applied the -er, -ir, -ur rule instead.
"...turd?" he says looking up at me.
About a split second later, realizing what he had said, he dissolved into giggles. Poor thing could not regain his composure for several minutes, especially because I was laughing too.
Who says following rules isn't fun?
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2 comments:
Hehe - oh, the joys of being a reading teacher! :)
Fabulous story =). My son is dyslexic and I run a daily program for him, I so relate to decoding and all that it involves! vg
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