http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/11/05/must-blog-more-time-required/ The life and times of a couple of little beans...... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:12:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/11/05/must-blog-more-time-required/#comment-131355 Gina Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:45:04 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/?p=3974#comment-131355 If it's any help, Em learnt to read really quite well before she and I were sure she knew the alphabet. In fact, it was at the optician's today that I really became sure of both that and 2 digit numbers, yet she can read (almost) as well as J now. Somehow, it wouldn't go in as just a series of letters. Since she was really old before she could even make a passable job of remembering the words for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, but desperate to read, we ignored the alphabet (except sometimes in passing) and plodded through The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Reading and, I guess, somewhere in that she's picked up on the letter names and sounds. If it’s any help, Em learnt to read really quite well before she and I were sure she knew the alphabet. In fact, it was at the optician’s today that I really became sure of both that and 2 digit numbers, yet she can read (almost) as well as J now. Somehow, it wouldn’t go in as just a series of letters. Since she was really old before she could even make a passable job of remembering the words for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, but desperate to read, we ignored the alphabet (except sometimes in passing) and plodded through The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Reading and, I guess, somewhere in that she’s picked up on the letter names and sounds.

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