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Old 06-24-2009, 09:43 PM   #46
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By doing this on his own, he's also working on cognition... if you've ever heard a first grader read you'll know that cognition is Rarely a part of that reading experience... they are taught some weird way of sounding out the letters (instead of words as I was) and no way do they "get" the word they are sounding out... an example would be afternoon. He knows this word and uses it in speech, but he hadn't come across it in day to day reading... he sounded it out as ah fff te eh rrr nn o o nn. I didn't know what he was sounding out nor did he!!! But going over the word together, he figured it out by the time we got through the first Aft sound.
My daughter did much the same. She knew the sounds each letter made in isolation, but it took her a *LONG* time to figure out how they worked together. She didn't catch on to "bl" as in "black" having just one sound rather than "buh" "luh".
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