Reading

Kyla has always loved books and we have a ton of books. We read books everyday and now that she is getting older it has been really fun to see her get interested in learning to read. Lately she likes to grab a book and read it from memory. I am suprised how many of her books she has memorized almost word for word, she will even use words in the book that are not a part of her normal vocabulary. She also has become very interested in books with rebus icons which are books that have some pictures in the sentences so that she can read along with me, or the pictures give her a better idea of what the story is saying and she will read the whole thing by herself. We had checked out a rebus book from the library and she loved it so much she kept saying that she wasn't going to give it back to the library, so I had to go find it at the bookstore to buy her so that I could convince her to return her library book. It is so fun to watch her with her books and I am glad that she loves reading as much as she does. Kyla has so many books and each week we also go to the library and check out lots of books. Every day we read and she is very aware of the sounds the letters make, what rhymes and letter recognition. She thinks that she can read since she has so many books memorized and she will occasionally even read books to her friends Ethan and Ella.