Exie now seems to understand that a bunch of letters in a row is (sometimes) a word. The first word that she seemed to get was “bears.” I sometimes wear an old Cal sweatshirt of Susan’s that says “bears” on it. We were practicing identifying letters one day and then I ran my finger along the whole word and said, “That spells bears!” Of course, that didn’t sink in for a while, but eventually she would answer correctly when I asked, “What does that spell?” I soon discovered, however, that she produced the same answer no matter what the word was. Eventually, however, she has come to realize that different groups of letters form different words. Seeing the gears turning inside that little head is truly incredible!
Now she recognizes a number of words – here are a few of them:
letters form words
Exie now seems to understand that a bunch of letters in a row is (sometimes) a word. The first word that she seemed to get was “bears.” I sometimes wear an old Cal sweatshirt of Susan’s that says “bears” on it. We were practicing identifying letters one day and then I ran my finger along the whole word and said, “That spells bears!” Of course, that didn’t sink in for a while, but eventually she would answer correctly when I asked, “What does that spell?” I soon discovered, however, that she produced the same answer no matter what the word was. Eventually, however, she has come to realize that different groups of letters form different words. Seeing the gears turning inside that little head is truly incredible!
Now she recognizes a number of words – here are a few of them:
reading practice 3/3/10 (1min:10sec)