It’s so rewarding to see when all your work (or non-work) pays off. Both Dawn and Emily are finally actively grasping the concept of reading.
The girls were sitting in the bed this morning and I found Dawn spelling out letters of a word (in an opposites board book), then saying the word. Too easy you say? Maybe, but given that most of them were not so obvious, I was pleasantly pleased to watch this unroll. Then Emily would start spelling out the letters in a word. What’s so great about that is now I know that she has learned her letters, despite my never having sat down with her to “teach” them to her.
I know that Dawn is above the proverbial bar IQ-wise, but I had always suspected Emily of being behind it. I am so glad that I am wrong with that assumption. The fact that she learned her letters off her sister confirms that she’s doing just fine!
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