We did it….
There has been a section on Study Dog that has been the cause of more attackes of the vapours than the whole rest of the thing put together… the bit about multi-sound consonants. So today, rather than trying to help her “hear” the different sounds (which is just not happening) I explained the “rules” like if c comes before i or e it’s likely to be a soft sound more like the name of the letter than it’s sound. She (sort of) got it. With lots of hand holding, reminding of the rules she did all 3 parts of it. To be fair some of it was a walk over for her and needed no help from me at all but getting past the soft and hard c and g sounds was such a relief!!!!
Later on she brought 1 of her word cards to me and read it then asked to play Go Fish with the cards so we did and she did okay with the reading. then she did several pages of the Starfall “reading journal” and did some lovely writing both tracing and independently.
Other highlights include her sitting transfixed by “Eurika” on CBBC and her doing really well with the shop game on the cebeebies website.
See, she’s getting there!
Comment by Joanna — November 9, 2005 @ 11:59 am