In other parenting news...

[cherydactyl]

My younger daughter M, age 5.5, who will enter kindergarten this fall, last night read Green Eggs and Ham to me, with occasional help on certain words. She read 98% of it to me without help. For the record, I did not demand she read anything; she decided that she would read it to me at bedtime.

She seems to be a whole-word reader. She can puzzle stuff out if she needs to, though she prefers to have decoding help, and would rather just memorize the word as a sight word from what I can tell. There were many high-fives, mostly when she completed a page.

Yahooo!!!!

Comments

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Awwww...that's so sweet and, well, really amazing. She is very smart!

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

She's been a proto-reader denying she was a reader at all for months and months and months. I was making myself not push her, which was slightly hard, actually, as I could see the skills developing. Her older sister wasn't much of a reader until well into 2nd grade, at which point we were getting concerned. In fact her lack of progress was was made us look into an ADD diagnosis. She had a breakthrough not long after we started medication. Presently S is reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, so she's doing fine now. But, anyway, *I* was reading before I entered kindergarten, which started for me on my 5th birthday. I was pretty sure M had it in her. :) But she still blew me away.

I bet your Charlie and my S would get on like a house on fire; I really do.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Hopefully some day that will happen! 'Cause I totally agree!

[the_rck]

Yea! Neat! Go M!

Please pass along my glee if you think it will encourage her.

[a2macgeek.livejournal.com]

It's always so cool when they start reading.

[neoliminal.livejournal.com]

The awesome!

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Oh cool -- congrats!

Appropriately, I ran into her today at the library. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I know we talked about this a little tonight but I see it here so I just wanted to say good for her reading a book is a big deal and I am happy to see she wanted to. Dr. Seuss' Green eggs and ham is a classic up there with anything shakespeare and London published.

Shayne

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Hi Shayne!

Sorry about the reply not showing up at first...I have occasionally had commenter spam, so my journal is set to screen anonymous comments as a default.

Double post

[(Anonymous)]

no you got a double post because I lost internet connection and was not sure if it worked. Sorry.

Shayne

Re: Double post

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

No worries. :)