Devlin's reading skills have taken off since he entered grade one. His biggest challenge is that he is incredibly lazy at times, and refuses to try to sound out the big words. Sometimes he give up too easily. So our task is keeping up his confidence level while challenging his reading skills. From purchasing easy to read books to reading a variety of storybooks every evening, from encouraging him to read the billboard ads to practising his spelling - it's a constant learning environment we are trying to provide.
He impressed his aunts over Christmas by reading several Dr. Seuss books to them. He impressed himself by reading some of the books Santa placed in his stocking. He even read a short story to his baby sister Aisling and baby cousin Mia.
And he's constantly trying to sound out words, no matter where we are. Usually we encourage this enthusiastically, even pointing out words for him to try. He hasn't learning about initials though. So there we were at the busy rest stop on the highway, waiting in line to order our meal. "Kuhfuhk. What's that?" he asked loudly.
We were waiting in line at KFC.
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