One major goal for Keidis this year is to learn to read. He came to me one day and said he wants to learn. And he has been practicing. We found a bunch of books that have just a few words in them on each page and so I read them and then he reads them. I often lay with Ophelia (who sleeps on the bottom bunk) at bedtime, when Keidis is up on his bed reading to himself. I can hear him sounding out words. Some words I know he has, even though he doesn't realize he has them yet are 'up' and 'and' and 'the'. It is so awesome! When we are reading together, he will stop me on a page to ask me which word is which and have me point it out. Or he will point to a word on the page and ask me which one it is. I notice that he spends a lot of time examining pictures in the books we read. Yesterday he brought me a book called "A Winter Day" and informed me that if I read it first, he could read it after me. And he did. He mostly memorizes, which is the first step to reading and picks out a few words (like and, the, up). It is SO exciting!
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