<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="" bgcolor=""> I shared with Audrey a reading tip that I thought may be of interest. Quote follows: On 10/17/2012 11:00 PM, Dave Allen Barker Jr wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:507F70E7.2000105@1.0ne.org" type="cite"> On 10/17/2012 03:38 PM, Adelson, Audrey wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:242F9A54EECF0342A9817DDF92546081504E015E@e14mbx21w.Enterprise.emory.net" type="cite"> I did some AR tests with about half of the class. Julia is awesome at reading!! She did hers completely on her own! How did you teach her to read like that? Suggestions are welcome! Alex is doing well but not on his own like that. </blockquote> I've been asked that before, and the only thing I can come up with (beyond luck of the genetic dice) is I've always pointed my finger at the text as I read to my kids. My theory is even before we're thinking animals (letters make these sounds, this rule and that, etc), we're amazing pattern recognition machines. Kids don't need to know how symbols equal words in order to read them. It's like learning a foreign language by immersion verses study, and the moving finger immerses kids in the written word. </blockquote> </body> </html>