Travis has been putting the pieces of reading together for quite some time. He’s been making books for ages and recently has been asking many more questions about how to spell certain words. It’s clear he’s been thinking about reading and spelling a lot. He’ll pipe up with questions out of the blue, like on the way to school last week: “Do you spell ‘burp’ b-u-r-p?”
But this weekend he made a big breakthrough. Mark took the kids to the library yesterday and T came home with a book in the “read and play” series. He very happily and confidently read the whole thing to me. I thought this was great, but I assumed he’d kind of memorized the text while reading it with Mark. Today I got four more books in the same series. And boy was I delighted (though not so delighted as Travis!) to hear him cruise through all of those on his own. Read the rest of this entry »
