He's ok, we had a long run-in with an SLP when he was younger, and the word-boundary issue has to do with having a vocabulary with lots of compound words, and a tendancy not to assume. His inate sence was to take the language in morphographs rather than words. Which is fine with me.
I'm looking for stuff that *isn't* the usual letter-by-letter approach. I don't need him to be actually able to read, and I don't think he's ready for that anyway. I'm interested in ideas about taking reading from a more wholistic, theoretical perspective. So that each piece of the puzzle stands alone, otherwise, it's a long haul before he gets anything out of learning, since the texts he's interested in are generally in the 9+ section. And this is for fun, not for groundwork.
The word boundaries thing was great, because it was something he could pick up in a few minutes and apply, it's not as simple as it seems on first glance (contractions, compound words, set phrases, etc.), and we could talk about how other languages use other ways of marking off words, different ideas about what a word is.
Now I'm thinking about talking about morphology with him. That might be a good thing. Hmmmmm...
Ok, you guys are giving me ideas, even if I wasn't actually clear about my questions
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-Mich.
