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I am just so excited I can hardly stand it! Little K is sounding out words! The other night, while I was on the computer catching up, Little K came over and was trying to sound out the word "food." Now, she knows most of the letter sounds but not the combinations such as "oo," so she needed some help but just the fact that she made the connection that letters together are really sounds together is amazing! Let me give some brief background information. Little K has slain the cancer dragon. She was diagnosed at the tender age of 4 1/2 with a very aggressive form of leukemia and survived 27 months of chemotherapy and radiation. She is a fighter! However, it left her with some major challenges to overcome. One of which is brain damage (oh, I HATE that term!) that causes learning challenges and problems in many areas including auditory processing. As you can imagine, this particular struggle makes it very difficult to learn phonics. We have been working on letter and sound recognition for more than 18 months with slow progress at best. I was determined to prove to the "experts" that she could and would learn on time. They told us there was little hope of her learning to read before the age of 9. Well, she is starting on that path. I dug out my phonics starters (we had put them away after it became apparent that they were doing nothing but cause frustration) and she is ready. She isn't zipping through them but she is retaining the sounds and she sees that they are not just random letters on a page but symbols that mean something and can be decoded. I am so excited I can hardly stand it :) Now, I am not getting too far ahead here, some times we definitely get the 2 steps forward, 1 step back thing but I am not going to let the window of opportunity pass. It is encouraging to see connections being made again! I have lots to update on, this was just the best news all week :) |
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Posted by Becky W
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