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Whatthe_Firetruck

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5. Both my boys could read simple books...

Reply to Walleye (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 08:35 PM

Mar 2023

... Before preschool. I would snuggle them close and read while running my finger under the words as I said them. When they were used to the books I would omit a word here or there, while advancing my finger, prompting them to say the word I was pointing at. When my youngest got to kindergarten he could and did read to the other children.

My eldest's first read word was "free. " He learned it from TV as it would flash over commercials. When one came on that didn't say the word but had it on the screen, he said it. That's what prompted me to start with him.

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