Collin is not quite yet 5 and we've been working on lots of things to prepare for kindergarten. Focusing on one thing at a time, developing more (and more) patience, solving problems with words and multiple attempts. I think its fair to say that he's working diligently on these things and they'll come along before fall, just the way they should, and some days I get a little worried, and perseverate on the things he doesn't have quite down yet, but today is not one of those days.
Today is a day to celebrate how much of a rockstar he is at beginning reading.
Both of our boys love love love books. Love them so much they are willing to spend lots of their independent time choosing to look at books. Drew and I are voracious readers too, and it probably doesn't help any that I study early language and literacy development. Collin doesn't seem to mind though. He's always been very interested in how to read, and its was so very easy for him to learn all the letters and sounds. So awhile ago, probably soon after he turned 3 we started to work on pre-reading skills using a pretty famous method by Ziggy Engelmann. Its a tried and true method and has a lot of research behind it (surprise). Anyway, I didn't push it at first because he was only just 3, so we were doing one lesson per week, maybe. Now, a whole year later we're at about lesson 70 and he's becoming more and more confident, and more and more successful in reading. He's good at it and does a great job using a mix of sounding it out and identifying common site words. I love watching this skill blossom, and I can't wait until he's reading to me all the time from books he adores.
I'm so proud of our little (big) guy. Check it out for yourself!
(also ignore the "I have to poop" part at the end of the first video!)
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