I'm going to brag on my daughter tonight. I know I probably shouldn't. But I'm just so crazy proud of her!!!!
She has loved books ever since she came home. She can sit for a long time just looking at books. The library is probably her favorite place to go and she sprawls out in the aisles looking at books.
I started teaching her how to read in Kindergarten this year and she did a very good job. But she doesn't like to stick with working hard at it for very long. She gets impatient to know what is happening in the story and just wants me to read it to her. Or she is content to just look at the pictures.
But the past few weeks, she has been starting to look for words that she can read in the library books we bring home, or as she looks at books that we own. I have started bringing some easy reader books home from the library and just putting them in her library book box for her to "find" during quiet time. I know that she is reading some of these books during her quiet time, because every once in a while she will bring one to me to show me that she can read it :-).
Tonight, at storytime, she brought me one of the library books and told me that it was her turn to read the bedtime story to me!!! :-).
The book she brought to me was a "My Turn, Your Turn" book of the Gingerbread Man. It's designed for a parent to read the left page and then the child reads the right page. We went through the book this way and the pages Maya K read were along these lines......
She has loved books ever since she came home. She can sit for a long time just looking at books. The library is probably her favorite place to go and she sprawls out in the aisles looking at books.
I started teaching her how to read in Kindergarten this year and she did a very good job. But she doesn't like to stick with working hard at it for very long. She gets impatient to know what is happening in the story and just wants me to read it to her. Or she is content to just look at the pictures.
But the past few weeks, she has been starting to look for words that she can read in the library books we bring home, or as she looks at books that we own. I have started bringing some easy reader books home from the library and just putting them in her library book box for her to "find" during quiet time. I know that she is reading some of these books during her quiet time, because every once in a while she will bring one to me to show me that she can read it :-).
Tonight, at storytime, she brought me one of the library books and told me that it was her turn to read the bedtime story to me!!! :-).
The book she brought to me was a "My Turn, Your Turn" book of the Gingerbread Man. It's designed for a parent to read the left page and then the child reads the right page. We went through the book this way and the pages Maya K read were along these lines......
"Run, run as fast as you can.
You can't eat me.
I'm the Gingerbread Man."
"Moo! Moo!
Stop, little Gingerbread Man!
I want to eat you up!"
She did a great job reading these pages and I was happy that SHE was excited to be reading them to me!!!!
But wait. It gets better!!!
The last page for the parent to read is about the fox, and as I started to read it, Maya K quickly (and rather forcefully) stopped me and told me that SHE wanted to read that page. I told her that I was happy to let her try if she wanted to.
Here is what she read........
But the sly fox said, "Bark, bark! I don't want to eat you. I want to be your friend."
Soon, the little Gingerbread Man came to a river. The fox said, "I'll help you cross the river. Jump onto my tail." So he did. But before long the fox said, "You are too heavy on my tail. Jump on my back." So he did. After a while the fox said, "You are too heavy on my back. Jump on my nose." So he did.
Then, that sly fox quickly tilted back her head and opened her mouth. SNAP! And that was the end of the little Gingerbread Man.
I was AMAZED at how accurately and smoothly she read it!!!!!! She needed some help on the words "friend", "river", "heavy", "after", and "opened", but other than those words, it was all her!!!!!
She had practiced reading that page during her quiet time, so it wasn't a "first" read, but I'm still so super proud of her for all she has learned. It is starting to all come together in her brain and she is reading more smoothly and ENJOYING the process of reading!!!!!
So, that's my bragging moment of the day.
(Just remembering how 21 months ago she didn't speak any English and now she is READING causes me to sit back and thank the Lord for everything He has done!!!!!)
