Day 165 in LR....he is finally reading at 15 months. I thought this would never happen. I was beginning to lose hope. I thought with the new game feature that maybe I was going to see some exciting results..............and nothing really happened or so it seemed. I have never tested my LO in any way. To be honest, I didn't want to set myself up for disappointed. I was preferring to disillusion myself into believing this whole thing was working and who needed results to prove it to your imagination?
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Well, I decided not to let the whole game feature bring me down so mommy happily played the game pointing and saying the answers happily. Well, here is how I figured out he could read. One day I was interrupted doing the game by my husband. I paused and turned my head to answer him, and then Micah just blurts out the answer because apparently I was taking too long for him. After that, he really didn't show much other responses.
Now he demonstrates preferences for certain words. The game will ask him to point to kick or drink, but if he sees up, green, three, frog, dog and most especially star, he will point to those words and say them instead. He is not the least interested in the words the speaker is asking for but that is a kid for you.
. Oh and the star pointer feature in the game is probably the most annoying distraction right now because star is his favorite thing to say and look at. I have never heard a child say star so much in my life, and he sees stars everywhere. I never knew that we were surrounded by so many star shapes but my LO is certain to point them out to me. I feel comfortable that he knows these words as he can recognize them in any font or format, and he clear understands their meaning.
Maybe I am crazy and disillusioned but we were watching Team Umizoomi together. Two different questions were asked. The first answer was three which he said the answer before they did, and then he did it again for another question where the answer was green.
I notice that he feels comfortable demonstrating his knowledge if its a word he can say. Right now he is just comfortable with "up" words, long e sounds, "ar" sounds, and "og" words. I don't know if this is pretty typical or not. I am so glad that I get to see something because I had been resigned to the fact that I might not see any real results for months.
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