Reading away...

It is such a joy to have an option nowadays at bedtime.

I have always read one book to the Princess after her bath.

Since November she's had a few options. She can have ME read her an entire book. She can read an entire book TO me. Or I can read a portion and she can read a portion (usually I take one set of pages and she'll take the next set).

It's so fun listening to her sound words out. Listening to her reading skills develop. Hearing the inflection in her voice when she realizes there's a question mark at the end of a sentence. She'll go back a couple words and read it so that it sounds like a question. And when there's exclamation point? She'll do the same.

I only need to help her every now and then when there'a word that goes against all the rules she's learned so far. You know how the English language is. She realizes that "PH" makes the "Ffff" sound instead of "pu-huh". She now knows that when she sees "KN" at the beginning of a word that the "K" is silent. Deciding what sound a vowel will make in a word still stumps her at times. And flowing the letters together needs a little more work.

But she is working at it. A LOT! And it's amazing sitting next to hear and just hearing her try and triumph over the words.