I love listening to Clio read right now. While she is reading some books that are quite big for her age (Ivy and Bean, Junie B. Jones, The Gift of the Magi), the process can still sometimes be halting and slow. This morning she was reading one of her science readers ("freak out!" I think). To listen to her read a sentence is to hear the process of comprehension in action.
"Bush
babies
can
leap
20
feet..."
"WOW! Mom, bush babies can leap 20 feet through the air!"
We take for granted the ability to read full sentences at a scan. Sometimes, when I get to the end of a book I have loved especially well, I cover the words with my hands so I will not jump ahead and read the very last one out of order. Clio still gets to read that way, every sentence, all the time.
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