Will reads to us almost every night now. And then we still read a couple of books to him too. His favorites to read are Go, Dog! Go!...
...Gus Gets Scared... Jack and Jill and Big Dog Bill...
...and many of the Sandra Boynton books.Here are a couple of video clips of him when he was just starting to get really excited about reading independently back in mid-August.
At the time, we hadn't picked up that Jack and Jill book in ages so, although there is repetition in the content, he definitely wasn't "reading" by memorization.
(And P.S. - after all my excitement about finally learning to embed a video clip into my blog, it's suddenly not working for me again. So I'm back to just linking to YouTube. Sorry, I'll figure all these mediums out one day.)
Just click on the links:
Will reading Jack and Jill - part 1
Will reading Jack and Jill - part 2
And here's a video from mid-September of him reading that Sesame Street book to Sophie. This was the first book he'd ever read completely through independently on the first try.
Will reading to Sophie
Will and I had been getting back into the Magic Tree House books for a little while and read about four or five more of them, when he decided he'd like to give those a rest again. I think he likes them, but now that he's reading independently, prefers shorter books that he can follow along with. So even when I'm reading, he's looking at the text and recognizing the words as I'm saying them. Or, if he's looking at the picture, he'll ask me "where does it say ____?" so that he can get back to following along with what I'm reading.
Will is definitely a book worm and Sophie is not too far behind him with her love of books.
Mostly what she does is carry around her favorites or sit and "read" by making up text to go with the pictures. She's also a huge fan of the Leap Frog Phonics games/movies and loves practicing letter sounds and recognizing letters (mostly uppercase).Here are a couple video clips from the end of September of her singing letter sounds. When watching the first one, you can just stop it after she runs off to get more letters, because she doesn't come back in that clip. Haha! She comes back a little later and that's where the second clip picks up. ;-)
Here is our latest stack of books from the library.
I'll leave you with the picture above if you care to know what we've read, but I'm going to skip the description this time. ;-)I will tell you that these two were our very favorite books and I would highly recommend them. So cute and funny.
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