So Brenna and I went shopping with Grandma Dawn a couple days ago. Grandma likes to buy Brenna stuff whenever we go and this trip it was a new book. Brenna got to pick it out from about a dozen 'Easy Readers - Level 1' that they had and of course she fell in love with a SpongeBob book. She was so excited and asked if she could look at it while she was sitting in the shopping cart. So Mom and I are looking at stuff and all of a sudden I hear Brenna reading this book out loud. I glanced at it to see if she was making up words and was shocked to see that she was reading it word for word! I mean, I knew she could sound out a lot of words (and has many sight words memorized) and she has read a couple books with my help (pointing to each word helping her keep track of where she was) but never has she held a book and just READ! I was so proud of her! :)
For about the past 6 months or so I have been trying to make her read books at bed time to practice but she absolutely refuses most of the time. So I wasn't going to push it and just figured that she would start reading when she was ready. Well I guess all it takes is to let HER pick out a new book that SHE wants to read (why didn't I figure this out sooner??). So I guess what I will start doing is going and buying her a new book about once a week and letting her pick them and just telling her, "Okay, if you want to know what the story is about then YOU are going to have to read it to find out."
She was so proud of herself and received so much praise from Brendon and me.
WAY TO GO BRENNA!!! :)
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