She decided (when I said it was bedtime…) to do some of the Starfall worksheets linked to “Peg the Hen” which is the second book in their series. So first she read the book, yes, she’s using picture clues and familiarity with the story but she read it well enough to make her smile so that will do for me. Then she did the last 2 worksheets in the set including reading words out of the context of the book. She managed with very little help and was on a roll!
So we got the MFW workbook out adn did “D” - yes the whole week’s worth of D! This was a colouring/cutting out page, a find the words beginning with D page, a write over the letters page (horrid printing, not nice cursive but never mind) and then a cut and paste page…. there were 6 words - dad, ant, sun, Sam, Ann and nut. She cut them out, stuck all bar nut onto the right pictures (Sam and Ann were in a previous week so she recognised them) and worked out that the last one must be nut. Without help. Not the teeniest, tiniest bit. The next sheet was the “blend ladder” which I tried with her once ages ago and left, we normally ingnore that page. Today she made a very, very good attempt, it was her choice to try and very much led by her.
then she declared it bedtime and had far too many stories!!!! (but unlike some on the blogring I actually enjoy reading out loud so I secretly enjoy it when she demands a story marathon…)
I feel I am looking “through a glass dimly” at some day a long way in our future when she sits and reads with confidence and enjoyment and I can sit back, smile and know we got there. Not by *my* efforts, not becuase I found *the* way to get her off and reading but because, with the occaisional night like tonight when her determination overtakes her feeling of not being able, she makes those teeny tiny steps and remembers a few words she has seen before and “hears” a word sounded out and chips a bit of her “I can’t” wall down. She did it with talking, nothing for nearly 3 years then we couldn’t shut her up (wonder where she gets that from 
). She did it with potty training, totally resistant to sitting on the potty or toilet one day, totally dry the next. She’s a *********** perfectionist and waits until she knows she really can befor she does. She’s my little miracle adn I’m so very proud of her.
Teh wretched thing was inside her leggings when she put them on this morning. You see, this is what you get for being all frugal and “green” by drying your clothes on the line instead of in the tumble dryer - you get flying things inside your baby’s clothes!
