I am very proud to announce that David has passed an important milestone on the path to literacy. We work with him quite a bit on letter sounds and he pretty much knows the what sound each letter makes (well, at least one sound per letter anyway). He is still struggling a bit with short vowel distinctions. But he has not been able to mush the sounds together into a word. He has not been able to get C-A-T from "Kuh. Aaa. Tuh" to "cat."
Until yesterday. For the first time he looked at a series of letters, not as several unrelated sounds, but as a pronounced unit.
We were in Brooke's truck where he was messing with a promotional beach ball containing this logo:
Which he proudly parsed as "SEX."
So, we had to remind him that "C" can be hard, as in "cat" but I did not let the significance of his effort pass.
We are on the way to literacy. Perhaps Freudian literary criticism, even.
Until yesterday. For the first time he looked at a series of letters, not as several unrelated sounds, but as a pronounced unit.
We were in Brooke's truck where he was messing with a promotional beach ball containing this logo:
Which he proudly parsed as "SEX."So, we had to remind him that "C" can be hard, as in "cat" but I did not let the significance of his effort pass.
We are on the way to literacy. Perhaps Freudian literary criticism, even.
1 comment:
Tbat is great! Ahhh "kids say the darndest things..."
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