AVA CAN READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

she did it tonight. genuine, truly, reading. obviously, it is the very start, but she figured it out! we read 4 pages of little bear together.

she is very very very proud of herself.

i knew it would happen this way--she sat down with a field guide to north american gamebirds (of all things), and started trying to figure out some of the easier words while i put carter down. after i convinced her to switch to little bear, she was just on a roll. it is hard to explain the difference between being able to sound out a word slowly as she has been able to do for a while, and actually reading, but there is a difference. there is something that she just gets and the words make sense to her.

10/08/08 --easy to remember.