Ella has been sight reading for some time now (since she was 9-10 months old) and we introduced her to phonics at around 15-16 months using LR and, later on, Your Child Can Read. She is only on volume 2 of YCCR (which is really really fantastic and well-done, by the way) but last week, she picked up a new Peter and Jane book that she has not read before, opened it randomly to a page in the middle of the book, and read aloud, “Here is a ball in a shop. Jane likes the ball.” !!! On a recent trip out of state, she would read out random signs that she’d see – for example, she read out “Jeep!†written on the spare tire cover of a jeep parked in front of us and she read out “The Café,†which was the name of the coffee shop in our hotel lobby! In the video, she also counts from 1 to 10 in Spanish, which I think she learned from Whistlefritz. She has also learned parts of the body, animals, and some verbs in Spanish.
She has also made marvelous progress in Chinese. Recently one morning, she woke up much earlier than usual and was jumping up and down on our bed. So in an attempt to get her to quiet down, I handed her a Chinese reader that I had on my nightstand for several months now. I had been meaning to teach her to read from it, but, because of time constraints, I could only do Chinese in LR with her and had not been able to read books in Chinese. Imagine my surprise when she started to read aloud the short sentences in Chinese to herself! The book has eight pages with one short sentence each (å…”åå¿«è·‘, å°é¹¿å¿«è·‘, 猴åå¿«è·‘, 森林著ç«äº†! etc…) and she read it from cover to cover! You can imagine how quickly I bolted from the bed to grab the camera. But I was still too late to catch it on video. I was so excited I didn’t get any more sleep after that! I guess we’ll be doing much more Chinese reading after this! :biggrin:
I’ll check my email to see if they had sent me an order confirmation email with a working link to the website.
