Friday, April 22, 2011

My emerging reader :)

My Brandon is learning to read!! He is pretty excited about it, thanks in part to a series of books I came across called Bob Books.

There are 12 booklets in the first series, and each story contains short vowels and three-letter words in simple sentences. The first story has only 4 letters (m, a, t, and s) so children can read the whole book themselves! New sounds are added gradually, until they've read books with all letters of the alphabet (except Q).

I could tell Brandon's sense of satisfaction was high, as he read the first three booklets in one sitting! It was fun to observe his progress within those few minutes, how sounding out the words began to click for him.

I'm a proud momma!

2 comments:

Chris said...

He's dong a great job! My boys didn't catch on until 1st grade. We have used BOB books too. Congratulations!

Karen Hossink said...

Riding a real bike AND reading?

Yes. You should be a proud momma. :)