Today the five year old just turned six year old in my life had that joyful moment of realizing that decoding works.
I created a "secret codebook" for his older brother when he was six and the younger one immediately wanted one.
Today he brought it to the table and went through the phonemes, you know, like -at, -up, -it and with concentration he added the consonant sounds at the beginning. "b, b, b"....."at"......bat! The look of excitement on his face realizing he read a word by himself, heart warming to witness.
But he wasn't satisfied with reading the word "right", he wanted the definition, he used it in a sentence and he would remark on other words he thought sounded similar to the word he was working on.
He loved having a conversation about the English language.
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