At the beginning stages of reading both my boys enjoyed writing over reading...they enjoyed drawing pictures (or having me draw pictures for them to color...they told me what to draw) and then they labeled or captioned by themselves or dictated to me...nobody said boo if they spelled something wrong but if they asked for a spelling I always gave it to them (that is my version of inventive spelling). They loved stapling these books together and then reading them over and over.

The other thing they liked a lot were these readers called we both read where the adult or older sibling reads the left side and the new reader only reads the right side. Later my kids would just read both sides without me.

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...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary