Jada has always loved books. Once she knows a story, she can 'read' it by looking at the pictures and telling you the basic story. So we decided to help her to learn to read all the words.
Chelsey has been working a lot with Jada (and Kayla is learning too!) to learn the ABC's, and the letter sounds. After about two or three weeks, Jada went from knowing ABC song to being able to recognize all the letters, the sounds that they make, and can even write some of them! We told her that when she could say all the letters and their sounds, we would take her for Ice Cream and the play place at McDonald's. We made this little sticker book with the alphabet, and we would quiz her a few times a day. Chelsey found lots of free online printable games that made it easier to help teach and learn the ABC's.
Now we are doing a lot of reinforcement of it, and Jada is also learning how to sound out some simple words. Before long, she will know sight words (such as: the, it, he, look, she, etc) and some family words ("At" family includes bat, cat, hat, mat...). She already is able to read one early reader book about a ballerina princess. It is exciting to help our family learn about the magic of books!
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