Loved discovering this old post! 😍 (thanks to Lara Cain Gray) My daughter (only child) learned to read by magic too, and I am seeing from reading helper stints how different it is for everyone — but how cool it is to watch! Also: long live Frog and Toad! ✊🏻💚
Thank you so much Cassy. Yes, such a spectrum of early readers to nurture - it's wonderful that Sally Rippin, the current Australian Laureate, has named her mission "All Kids Can Be Readers".
This is wonderful! I guess at least Coonawarra wasn't their first word! This follows so closely to my kids' reading journeys. Only the youngest (now 12) still reads regularly at bedtime but I think the older ones will return to it in time. And meanwhile, I have an epic bookcase, ha ha.
Thank you, Lara, I'm so glad you enjoyed the piece. I'm also comforted by knowing several big readers who were not keen on it in their youth - my mum, for example, says she was too busy having adventures to be reading when she was a kid, but she picked up War & Peace when she was pregnant with me and she's been reading ever since.
Loved discovering this old post! 😍 (thanks to Lara Cain Gray) My daughter (only child) learned to read by magic too, and I am seeing from reading helper stints how different it is for everyone — but how cool it is to watch! Also: long live Frog and Toad! ✊🏻💚
Thank you so much Cassy. Yes, such a spectrum of early readers to nurture - it's wonderful that Sally Rippin, the current Australian Laureate, has named her mission "All Kids Can Be Readers".
Yes! Loved her book Wild Things too. I was naive to a lot of the nuances of how literacy teaching can be inclusive or exclusive.
This is wonderful! I guess at least Coonawarra wasn't their first word! This follows so closely to my kids' reading journeys. Only the youngest (now 12) still reads regularly at bedtime but I think the older ones will return to it in time. And meanwhile, I have an epic bookcase, ha ha.
Thank you, Lara, I'm so glad you enjoyed the piece. I'm also comforted by knowing several big readers who were not keen on it in their youth - my mum, for example, says she was too busy having adventures to be reading when she was a kid, but she picked up War & Peace when she was pregnant with me and she's been reading ever since.