Hi everyone, I just wanted to share our success with you all. Something clicked for Ian a few months ago. we were doing readingbear and daddudes flash cards and he was learning just fine when I decided to try monkisee. Suddenly he was learning new words really fast. I had always thought he wasn't a whole words learner. But, He's learned hundreds of words in just a few months now.
A few weeks ago I realized he could choose the correct word from a group of choices of entirely unfamiliar words. He was playing stack the countries on the iPad and I would tell him which country to choose and he would look at all the country names and find the right one.
Then he read the word pull which he knows, but it was written vertically on a door so he read it "llup"
He read the word brain from a video which I hadn't taught him and then he read "brow" as in eyebrow but read it like you would read the ow like snow instead of cow. I think the mistakes are the most telling because
they show that they are not memorized words that he really is starting to process the rules. We had only been through the short vowels on readingbear so it seems it is true that kids can pick up phonics from whole words. I never really doubted it but I just didn't think it would happen that way for us. It is very exciting.
Anyway, just wanted to share!
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