Who knew this reading thing could be kind of cool? Now that he's starting to get the hang of it, AJ's discovering all sorts of practical applications for his new skills.
For one thing, it's opened up for him a whole new section of books at the library. Right now, The Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon is his favorite. Twice I've heard him laughing in the living room, assumed he was watching TV, and then discovered him with the book in hand.
He's also discovered there are words on those little slips of paper inside fortune cookies. He needed a little help figuring out to flip over the fortune to the side with words in English, but once he'd done that, he was able to read it with relatively little help.
Numbers are also starting to make more sense. While making his favorite cinnamon rolls, I showed him the instructions so he could read at what temperature they should bake. I then helped him press the corresponding numbers on the oven to start it preheating.
I had him do the same with the timer. He then proceeded to count down a good chunk of the time the cinnamon rolls were baking. Based on how quickly he was able to announce the numbers, I'd say he might have a future as an auctioneer.
It's taken plenty of encouragement to get him to this point. Math has come far easier to him, so he naturally would rather focus on counting and adding rather than on reading. But now that all those letters are making more sense, he's at last appreciating the new opportunities they represent.
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