Our daughter is now 26 months old (wow, when did that happen?!). She tells me a couple of times a day that she is "too tiny to read these words". She has asked me to teach her to read and she is obviously wanting to, but she won't try sounding out the words. She knows about 50 words by sight and she knows all of her letters and the sounds they make. If I ask her what letter "dog" starts with, she will tell me "d"...but she does not understand how to start sounding out words. She is watches me demonstrate sounding out the words, but she does not want to try at all. Instead, it almost gives up and says "Mama, you read it to me."
Are there any tricks that will help me teach her? I really think she would be happy if she could sit down with a book and read on her own. As it is, she is great at memorizing them, but she knows she s not truly reading.
Thanks for any ideas. Happy New Year!
