Enjoying reading :)

Mummy and papa's lovely Xuan forever..

Xuan loves to read. :D

Xuan’s exposure to sight words is progressing well. In fact, Xuan is proficient and could recognize hundreds of highly sight words up to K2 level now (based on the Dolch sight words listing).

With this exposure to sight words, Xuan could read many simple story books meant for early readers quite independently. Now Xuan is in level 2 for those readers’ series such as Usborne, Scholastic, Peter and Jane. Beside these collections, Xuan has many interesting story books bought from internet and various bookstores. In fact, mummy is increasing finding hard to find storage space in our book shelves.

Last night, Xuan asked to read Peter and Jane book 4b last night. This is the first time we read this book and much to mummy's surprise and delight, we finished it (50 pages and average 10 short sentences) in about 20 minutes. As mummy read, Xuan could follow and continue from where mummy paused. Now, Xuan is ready to proceed to book 5a and 5b, which mummy gathered from internet that this level is for 5 to 7 years old young readers. :D

Recently, Xuan has taken an interest into simple writing and showing curiousity on how a word is being spelt. Xuan will ask mummy on how a word is spelt and she will write out letter by letter as mummy spelt for her. :D

On phonic progress, Xuan is also able to hear and get the first sounds of words correctly so far. With these, Xuan could tell which letter does a particular word begin with, even she has not learn the spelling of the word before.

Coupled with exposure to phonic in pre-school and enrichment class, mummy hopes that Xuan will be able to enjoy reading with even more confidence and greater ease. The effort of cultivating healthy reading before bed time since young is reaping results! Every night, Xuan will insist on reading before bed time. It has become a daily routine. :D