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Our kids are all reading now and each one's approach has been unique.

On January 1, 2007 Frankie made a new year's resolution to read 200 books.  He completed his goal on November 28th and it was big news in our house.  We emailed his former teachers and informed his relatives and babysitters when we saw them. I suspect Rose made a decision that she was going to cash in on some of that hoopla.  She had started her own reading list as she saw her brother approaching his goal but after he reached it, she began reading books every day.  Her list has already reached more than 60 books.Her approach to reading is quite different than Frankie's was. Frankie broke everything down and had to understand the mechanics of reading. He wanted no help as he read his first books and I mean NO HELP. If he saw the word “dog” and read “bog” and someone told him that the b was a d, he would be devastated, claiming that now the book was ruined and he couldn’t take credit for reading it.Rose, on the other hand, has been pulling books off the shelf and barreling through them, asking us to tell her what every fourth word is so she can get through it.  She'll figure out tough words like "twisting" or "surprise" and then repeatedly ask us about easier more common words, like "what".  Her reading sense seems innate.  She doesn't know about long and short vowel sounds or endings like ed or ing.  Frankie thoroughly knew these things before his reading took off.Rita is feeling overshadowed by Rosie's success but she too is reading very well for a preschooler.  She figures out plenty of words and often assists Rosie in figuring out a word but she has no interest in putting forth the effort required to read an entire book.  She'd much rather have someone read the story to her. 10 application/xml false Frankie new years resolution reading Rita Rose Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 carols 68.40.167.222 false true false false true 173251 false false true false false false true 101842 blog blogsite/Seidl/web