Reading is FUNdamental...

Alexander showing off his reading skills

Love for Reading...

Alexander is so excited to be able to read multiple books & he does a great job!
With this book, he is doing a side-commentary about a little frog in the story as that was something he & I would do together, so if parts of what he's saying doesn't make sense, that's why

My Little Reader...

Alexander was so excited to show me that he could read his book all by himself!

My Little Reader...

Alexander showing off his reading abilities...and the best part is that he got most of the words/story spot-on!

Reading Abilities...

Lately, Alexander has been impressing me greatly with his "reading" skills. Whether is reading, remembering, memorizing ... he's been able to read books to me rather than me read them.

We have a Thomas the Train book that he loves & it's also easy to read. Over the past week or so, he's been able to read the ENTIRE book (minus four words) from start to finish. I'm finding it very impressive. Again, I don't know if he's actually reading or remembering, but it's still very cool!

And then last night, we were reading another common book and Alexander actually picked out some of the words and read them himself! I had to hold back a gulp in my throat - I was very proud of him.

Reading...

At bedtime, Alexander & I have our rituals as to what books we read and how we read them. Most times, I read them and if I look at him as I read him, he says "Nooooo Mommy" and literally turns my head towards the book. I guess I can't have them memorized. For Easter, he got a Elmo @ the Playground book that he loves. We've been reading it and the best part is that there are words featured in the book at the end of the book so we practice saying them.

At first I got babble back but he's been getting better at repeating after me. Then Wednesday night, I would point to the word and he would say it first - without me coaching him. I was SO excited that after the first few words I was so giddy. Poor kid didn't know what was going on. He was able to say most words by "reading" (it could be his own memorizing, but still he understands the words!).

Then as we were reading the book Friday night, he started to say the words that are in the back DURING the book and in the correct places. This was more exciting because we didn't practice that part but he knew what word to say when!

A few words that are on the list are: practice, baseball, playground, kindness & fantastic! These are so much fun to hear him say...or at least attempt to say!