Hi Lolobride,
I, too, am a bit disappointed that my son isn't reading the way I thought he would be at this point. However, I can encourage you by telling you that his vocabulary is HUGE. I believe it is because of LR and YBCR that he can understand and use many different words...words that I may not have thought to teach him yet. It's all exposure. If your daughter is still having fun then what's the harm in continuing? At some point, my son and your daughter are going to express their learning by showing us their reading skills. In the meantime we need to just keep it a game and continue to expose them to as much as we can while keeping the fun alive.
And...I "tested" my son when he was younger...he was happy to show me his learning. But I remember when that changed and he wasn't pleased anymore with "performing" for me or my family. That's when it began to get more difficult to do LR and YBCR. So, we've switched our approach. Oh...I'm still curious and would love to test him, but I know that as soon as I do, he'll clam up again...so we're trying to "be cool" with it and accept his "no" as no...well, we actually make him say "no, thank you"
- gotta stress the manners, right?
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