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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

Reading Practice.

November 22nd, 2009 at 3:59pm |

When last I wrote, Alex had started to show an interest in learning to read, and we had discussed possibly reading every day for a month. A few days after I wrote that post, we were doing something reading-related and I asked her if she still planned to learn reading every day in December. “Yeah,” [...]

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Adventures in Literacy.

November 9th, 2009 at 10:04am |

Alex continues to write and write. She’s making a lot of progress with her letter forms – she still occasionally reverses J and Z, but most of the other letters are accurately shaped and she’s able to draw them quite small. Telling her how to spell something is much less laborious these days – she [...]

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