Gage has known his letters by sight since before he was two and now at 3 1/2, he’s learning sight words. He knows around 20 or 30 and sometimes he’ll surprise me with one I didn’t know, like this week he had an old book titled ABC Book and pointed to the word book and said, “that is book”. Yep, sure is. Yesterday during his private swim lesson he pointed to his instructor’s swimsuit and asked, “What’s that say?” and when she didn’t answer him fast enough he said “Speedo” and he was right (I’m sure this has more to do with his incredible memory than anything else, but she was impressed :)).
We’re doing worksheets where he circles pictures that start with a particular letter (left) and having him go through a pile of stickers and put only ones that start with a particular letter on the paper (above). He is well above 90% accuracy for both of these exercises. The kid is smart. I’ll have him reading books in no time 🙂
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What a cutie he is! I would imagine that he’ll love reading.
I hope so!
He is one smart cookie! Vance was always asking me questions about words and taught himself to read early. It sounds like Gage is going to be an early reader as well.
I’m starting to work on it. It will be a long process but I;m happy that he’s interested.
Looks like the apple didn’t fall far from the tree 🙂
Hopefully this will be one of the good things I pass on!
Both of my kids were good early readers, but neither of them do much reading these days. My daughter is totally burned out because of Honors English classes and my son prefers graphic novels, which isn’t horrible. And he does like Stephen King. A love of reading at Gage’s age is a good thing!
I think graphic novels are good. And having earned a degree in English I know that it can stifle you wanting to read anything for fun.
Books, or perhaps A-to-Z challenges?
Maybe by next year he can be writing them 🙂
Yay Gage!
He says thanks 🙂
Impressive little guy Stacy
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I think so!
that’s awesome! if you guys have a tablet that he uses i highly recommend endless abc or endless reader!
He uses our ipad so I’ll have to look up endless reader. thanks for the tip!
So cool! And fun!
It’s all about making it like a game AND short.
Wonderful! It’s amazing how much information they soak up and retain at that age.
It’s a fun age for that very reason 🙂
cute and clever 🙂
You are talking about Gage and not me, right? 😉
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good for gage!
I love when kids love to read. My 9-year old granddaughter is avid. She’s on book 6 of Harry Potter. And my 5-year old grandson and 5-year old granddaughter are becoming more interested. It’s too early to tell on my 23-month old granddaughter.
LOVE THIS!!! Garrett doesn’t know any letters yet, but he does seem to be catching on to the numbers he’s learning at daycare! I can’t wait to get my little dude reading. He LOVES books right now, so I hope he continues to enjoy it as he grows up.
Wow! That’s amazing. Go, Gage! He’s a little smartie pants. Gabe refuses to read. He’s already rebelling… 😉