Fun language development milestones
Oct. 21st, 2005 01:08 pm(I know, I should probably put this stuff in ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Rhys is thinking about spelling a lot. He regularly reads the letters in words, though often he reads them as last letter, first letter, other letter instead of left to right. He knows that things have words associated with them, and that you can spell them. Sometimes he asks us to spell stuff. He can sight-read a few words, his name and "CAT" at least, and a few others less reliably. He's also starting to get a sense of basic phonetics -- he sits around talking to himself or his books sometimes, saying things like "B says buh", "buh buh B very good yeah!"
He doesn't have any concept of using that information to sound things out yet. But what he *has* figured out is that a lot of the things that have words next to them are labels for the pictures. This leads to funny exchanges like him looking at a picture of a red segmented thing with antennae and little legs, and saying, "a...n...t...spell lobster!"
projectmothra. Don't feel like logging in there.)Rhys is thinking about spelling a lot. He regularly reads the letters in words, though often he reads them as last letter, first letter, other letter instead of left to right. He knows that things have words associated with them, and that you can spell them. Sometimes he asks us to spell stuff. He can sight-read a few words, his name and "CAT" at least, and a few others less reliably. He's also starting to get a sense of basic phonetics -- he sits around talking to himself or his books sometimes, saying things like "B says buh", "buh buh B very good yeah!"
He doesn't have any concept of using that information to sound things out yet. But what he *has* figured out is that a lot of the things that have words next to them are labels for the pictures. This leads to funny exchanges like him looking at a picture of a red segmented thing with antennae and little legs, and saying, "a...n...t...spell lobster!"
