We are still working through All About Reading, pre-reading with Dot, who will be 6 in May. We finished lesson 32 today, lower case F. I still really like it, and so does she. My goal is to get through all the lower case letters before she turns 6, hopefully sooner. She's just very gently absorbing letters and sounds. I have noticed that some of the pre-reading games have been challenging for her, which makes me glad that we are not pushing any kind of formal reading at this time. And then one day things click. Today, she seemed to understand a lot better about the sounds of words being broken up. So, waiting for her brain to be ready on its own seems a better strategy than trying to push it. I'm really thankful that she is not in a kindergarten class, and that her brain is free to learn in a non-stressful way.
We may play a little more often with letters, as she thinks it is fun to form them. I want to make some Montessori phonetic object cards to encourage this.
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