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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Abigail Learns to Read

So Abigail has said that since she is now four it is time for her to learn how to read. The only problem is that she usually doesn't want to stay still and learn her letter sounds or how to put them together. So we've come up with "shower words." When we shower I write words on the shower wall and she sounds them out while she is in the shower. It has actually worked pretty well and she can sound out most of the words I write for her. Yesterday though she cracked me up when she was sounding out the word "sheep." She said, "qeep?" I said, "What sound does 'sh' make?" and she said, "It's like "quiet" right?" That got me laughing, I said, "Well, it makes 'shhh', not quiet." At least she remembered that 's' and 'h' make a sound when they are together.