Isabelle Learns to Read!

Some very exciting news is Isabelle! She had the most adorable "aha!" moment last week while we were working on her flash cards. Isabelle learned phonetic letters and then I began teaching her words. She wasn't really getting the word thing, so I started teaching her to sound them out. "Which one starts with S? Which one starts with T?" After we'd go through her cards, sounding out the first letters, I'd go through the cards again asking, "Which one says, SIT? Which one says TALL?" This way she'd already looked at the first letters - and now could expand it to the word.

So last week, all of a sudden, her eyes lit up and she had the cutest, most excited cockatoo smile ever, and was like OMG I GET IT I GET IT I GET IT!!!!!! She started picking out the words like a boss! I had to run and find all of Ellie's old site words, and then she knocked them out like crazy!

Yesterday I gave her 16 new words she'd never seen before. We didn't pre-read them, sounding them out, we just read them, straight. SHE GOT 88% CORRECT!!! She missed TWO out of SIXTEEN!!! OMG I was sooo proud of her! My little reader <3 <3 <3 (And to think, I didn't really believe she could learn it, haha!)

Here's our video :)