Julia has been interested in reading on her own since this summer. She really wanted to learn to read, and she kept asking me when she would start reading. For the past couple of months, I saw the signs of reading readiness, but it wasn't until about two weeks ago that I knew Julia was "this close" to taking off.
Everything started to click today, when I showed her an early-reader book I had checked out from the library. There are four short stories in this book, and the stories have repetition, which is helpful to beginning readers. I knew Julia would recognize some of the sight words - the, and, my. And Julia is patient enough to carefully sound out words she doesn't know. She needed a little bit of help reading the short stories in this book, but Julia was determined to be an independent reader...and she succeeded!
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