I would love to know where people get ideas like this to begin with.
I didn't actually tell the whole story, for space reasons: she also told me that she has them sounding out words, and that they had been working on "queen" and "quilt". I guess the irony of the silent E in "queen" was lost on her, unless she didn't consider that second e to be silent???
At that point,I had a lot of sympathy for the poor things that really do need to learn to track from left to right. Imagine throwing "qu", silent e, and "lt" at a bunch of kids who are still figuring out that you go from left to right. I mean, whatever happened to "Dot sat" and "Run, Tag, run"???
Argh.
Val
