Thursday, June 5, 2008

Early signs of Reading

Inside Mary Elizabeth's House by Pamela Allen is an unlikely ally in Abi's progress towards being able to read independently. The monster's grunts "Huh! Ugh!" have been read gleefully to Abi as part of her bedtime story, and yesterday Chris pointed to the page and asked Abi what these words were. Abi gave the correct sounds. He then isolated the word "we" and asked Abi what that word was: she sounded the letters and said the correct word. Same with the word "she".

Later Abi was playing with a backpack that had a logo on it. She didn't know the logo but immediately tried to sound out the word "Wiggles". Priscilla helped Abi to get to the full word by repeating the sounds.

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