January 22, 2012

Cole began reading today! For quite some time he has known all his letters and his letter sounds; he’s even put nonsense letters together for us to sound out.  “We can sound out anything!” he says repeatedly.

Today, he was sitting with Daddy playing with his “letter blocks.”  Daddy began putting 3-letter words together and asked him what the word was.  S-I-T he sounded out, then said the sounds faster and faster.  Then “Sit!  Sit on the couch.  Sit on the chair!”  He not only put the sounds together smoothly in a word, but he recognized the word and naturally put it in a sentence.  Yeah!

Other words he read included: SAT, SIX, BAT, JAM

And we’re off!