Yes No Stop Go
Jaimie on Feb 29th 2008
CJ can read, and no one told me.
Well, maybe no one knew.
We were playing a puzzle game on PBS Kids today, and when you make the pieces too large the computer says (in text) TOO BIG! And without me telling him what it said, CJ laughed and said “Too big!”.
And I thought, how odd, that’s what it says. And then I realized he was READING what it said.
I’m not sure how unobservant of a parent I am that my child learned to read without me so much as noticing. I’m not saying he is terribly advanced and can read fluently at 3 - the reading he is doing is purely sight-reading and is limited to the words he’s memorized up in his head. But still. I thought I would have noticed.
I wrote a bunch of short words I could think of on a piece of paper and asked CJ to read them, and he readily identified Stop, Go, Yes, and No without any hesitation. He also knows his name (which we did already know) and he can recognize most of his classmates’ names as well (that must have come from school of course). I don’t think the rest came from school though, we get sheets of what they work on every day and there haven’t been any reading/word worksheets or notes, just individual letters.
I need to think of more words he might know. I did teach him “Red” and “Jump” today.
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WTG CJ!! That’s very fabulous!
Our daughter showed the same aptitude (or at least quite similar) and so we got a book that was recommended to us, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons. It is slow enough that their small minds can practice and build confidence, but its thorough, and I like that. Congrats, though.
That’s awesome! You must be so proud of him!
That’s totally cool. It’s amazing what they do when we’re not watching.
My son’s kindergarden cirriculum includes articles, positional words, colours and “to be” verb. You might work on those.