Not bragging here, just thinking about the implications. Where do we go from here? Is this something we should encourage and work with, or just let it be? I'm inclined to say that we should just keep doing what we've been doing; reading to them, pointing out words as we do so, and let Jacob pick up as much as he wants. I'm afraid that if we push him, he'll get turned off of reading. Better that he should just see us loving books and learn to love books in that way.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Our Early Reader
We were in the bookstore tonight (as we so often are) and we witnessed something truly remarkable. Alicia found a deck of cards with sight words on them—little words like "red", "and", "many", "like"—and showed them to 3-year-old Jacob. To our astonishment, he rattled through all but three of them. We had no idea that he knew so many words by sight.
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The part that astounded me was that when confronted with a word he didn't know, he used the letters from the word and made it into a word he could relate to. For example the word "age" becomes "game" to him because "game" is a word he could relate to and "age" was not.
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