Learning To Read

Karis has been learning lots of sight words in pre-K. She often points them out to me when she sees them in a book, on a sign or on random things around the house. But I wondered when she would start reading when her sight words were words like me, "go," "my," "he," "with",  and "I".

The other night, we were working on her homework. She had to find the word "has" on anything around the house. We scoured some books and found a few. When she started looking through the book "Are You My Mother?",  she realized she could read a lot of the words on the pages. She started reading, sometimes guessing the words with the help of the pictures and knowing what the first letter sounds like. To my surprise, she was reading a lot of the words! It was pretty exciting. She was thrilled that she was reading. Here is a video of her reading a couple pages.