This One Not so Funny, But There’s Cool Trailers At the End

Teaching a child to read is significantly harder than I thought. I don’t know exactly what I expected, but I sure didn’t expect to have to show my child the “and” flashcard for 6 weeks before she would recognize it. I thought Seporah’d pick it right up considering the fact that she sits there listening to us read to her all the time. That’s not the way it happened unfortunately. And I can only imagine how frustrating it was for her to sit down with her mom who pulled out flashcard after flashcard time after time that she couldn’t read. But she is slowly picking up some words to both of our joy. We’re up to a list of about 15 that she can recognize. They’re all sight words like and, go, it, can, look, and it.

You want to know what finally helped her? M&M’s. Yes, you read that right. I just started bribing her finally (we won’t actually discuss how many things my children have learned to do because of M&Ms). I didn’t know how else to get them through to her. We also started showing her this DVD day in and day out called Meet the Sight Words which has helped as well. I wasn’t sure until yesterday when I was writing the word all and I was making the L’s have a little loop at the bottom. Seporah looked at me and told me all has L’s not J’s and told me about the scene in the DVD with the word all. All I could say was Seporah you are very right. She’s also picking up words as we read books, which is very excited about.

And while we’re on the subject of books, I wanted to talk about some AWESOME ones for the iPad. Seriously, these books are awesome. If you happen to have a device that will read them, download them. First one is called The Pedler Lady of Gushing Cross:

The second one is The Little Mermaid along with a couple other stories by Hans Christian Anderson:

Both of these stories are truly amazing to read and will entertain not only children, but the child in you as well.