Friday, September 26, 2008

Thevy Can Read... Sike!

Thevy tricked me. This was probably a month ago now when she had me believe that she could read. I mean, she's already known her alphabet and phonics for quite some time, so it wasn't a stretch to think she could read.

I took her alphabet refrigerator magnets and formed a simple word: DOG. She recognized it and I was excited and happy. So I formed the next word, which she proceeded to read: CAT. I was like, this is great! Let me change the first letter to a B and she said 'bat'. We were on a roll!

I then changed the B to an H. Piece of cake, right? Thevy then blurts out, "Hippopotamus." D'oh! Guess she was only associating initial word sounds with words and not actually reading.

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