[House] Sunday Learning Time Report 22 Jan 2017

[Robin Lee Powell]

RJ will have to speak to his half, but:

We went through the MLP phonics books.  F joined in, but I was
concentrating on K.

K did *quite* well at the sight words.  That is: "Find all the "my"s
on the page", and then I'd flip back to the start and show her what
"my" look liked, and she did well.

She seemed quite proud of this, especially when she could do more
than one word in a row.

She wasn't quite as good at it as F, but *much* better than I
expected and she seemed to enjoy it.

On the other hand, sounding out words was a fucking *disaster*.  It
was like every time I tried to engage her in that activity I punched
her in the eyes; she literally couldn't look at the page once we
started that activity.

I don't see any reason to work against this; if she is better suited
to memorizing word shapes and reading purely visually, you know
what?, I know literate adults that can't sound words out.  It's a
perfectly valid way to learn to read, let's try to roll with it for
a while and see how it goes.