Reading Progress
Fiona's been able to figure out what letter most words start with for a while now (obviously words like "knee" or "wrap" are going to throw her off at this point). A few months ago she started identifying some very short words on a regular basis. Zoo. No. We drive down the street and Fiona will see a sign that says "No Parking" and shout out "that says no!"
But she's on the verge of the next big leap. Last week we went to San Diego (one reason for the paucity of recent blog posts). I went online a day or so before we left and joked that we were going to drive from New York to San Diego and did a Google Maps to see how long the trip would be without highways. Fiona pointed to the middle of the country and said "That's where Nana and Pop live!"
We looked at where she was pointing. South Dakota. One word starting with an S, the other with a D. So her facts were completely wrong, and very impressive.
We have some short board books that we used to read Fiona when she was a baby that we've kept around figuring they'd make good early readers. One of the books is the Belly Button Book. Fiona sits on my lap and we read the book together. She reads all the words that start with "B" and I read everything else. She's pretty good on those, too. Belly. Button. Balloon. But. Beach. The word "because" throws her off every time.
We also got a book of fairy tales for Fiona recently--longer stories to match her increasing attention span. After we got the book, when we were reading one fairy tale before bed each night, the first thing we'd do each time we read it was read through the table of contents together until Fiona picked which story she wanted to hear. One afternoon, she picked up the book and started reading the table of contents to me. She got the first 10 stories correct, although I figured she'd heard the TOC so many times at that point she might be reciting.
So I pointed to one of the stories out of order.
"Cinderella," she said. And she was right.
I tried another.
"Rumpelstiltskin." Right again.
We went on like this for a while. There are 15 stories in the book, and I think she got 13 of them right.
On our plane flight out to San Diego, as hour four in the air turned into hour five, Fiona started getting restless. So I started writing out three- and four-letter words (not those four-letter words) on a piece of paper and asked her what they were. Zoo. Pop. Cat. Book.
She's still got one more year of preschool. She'll be reading before she's done.
But she's on the verge of the next big leap. Last week we went to San Diego (one reason for the paucity of recent blog posts). I went online a day or so before we left and joked that we were going to drive from New York to San Diego and did a Google Maps to see how long the trip would be without highways. Fiona pointed to the middle of the country and said "That's where Nana and Pop live!"
We looked at where she was pointing. South Dakota. One word starting with an S, the other with a D. So her facts were completely wrong, and very impressive.
We have some short board books that we used to read Fiona when she was a baby that we've kept around figuring they'd make good early readers. One of the books is the Belly Button Book. Fiona sits on my lap and we read the book together. She reads all the words that start with "B" and I read everything else. She's pretty good on those, too. Belly. Button. Balloon. But. Beach. The word "because" throws her off every time.
We also got a book of fairy tales for Fiona recently--longer stories to match her increasing attention span. After we got the book, when we were reading one fairy tale before bed each night, the first thing we'd do each time we read it was read through the table of contents together until Fiona picked which story she wanted to hear. One afternoon, she picked up the book and started reading the table of contents to me. She got the first 10 stories correct, although I figured she'd heard the TOC so many times at that point she might be reciting.
So I pointed to one of the stories out of order.
"Cinderella," she said. And she was right.
I tried another.
"Rumpelstiltskin." Right again.
We went on like this for a while. There are 15 stories in the book, and I think she got 13 of them right.
On our plane flight out to San Diego, as hour four in the air turned into hour five, Fiona started getting restless. So I started writing out three- and four-letter words (not those four-letter words) on a piece of paper and asked her what they were. Zoo. Pop. Cat. Book.
She's still got one more year of preschool. She'll be reading before she's done.
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