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Charlotte Reads

I’ve been tutoring Charlotte in reading and she’s making good progress.  I’ve been using a book I bought as part of my teaching program at BYU (Teaching Children to Read by Grant Von Harrison).  It teaches a variety of skills including blending, sight words, and reading for comprehension.  She is doing quite well with each skill.  Blending has been the most challenging of the lot.  Her tendency is to sound out individual letters, but just in the last week or two she has started really blending the sounds much better.  Her reading fluency is good and continues to improve.

Here is a sample of her reading skills.  I post this with the idea that this is the sort of thing that grandparents would be really interested in watching, but friends and casual blog readers may want to skip the video