She's reading!

This morning on the bus, Elisabeth and I looked at her latest issue of Highlights, which just arrived in the mail. It contains an array of simple poems, stories and visual puzzles for young children. One of the pages was a very simple, six-sentence story about a dog. I encouraged Elisabeth to sound out the words and read them.

She took the sounds one at a time, put them together, and read word after word! We kept reviewing the phrase of each 5-6 word sentence, because by the time she reached the last word, she had already forgotten what the first two words said, and had to sound them out again! However, I was amazed, because this is the first time that she has read a story. She has been decoding simple words for some time now, but hasn't shown interest in decoding even simple sentences - until today.

What a world of fun is just around the corner!