You can read!
Motivated by watching your sister, you proactively picked up the book “100 Super Sight Word Poems” and began practicing every night before bed. You first focused on your school sight words like “a,” “to,” and “the,” circling them with markers, and completed reading the lines with the picture clues. Now you can read damn-near half the book.
More important than the reading itself, you are excited and proud to read. When you complete a poem you light up as if you hit a game-winning 3-point shot.
Your favorite poem is “Where To?”:
Some day I go…
to the bus stop,
to the school,
to the park, or to the pool.
But every day,
I like to go home.
You have that one memorized now and practice speed reading it like an auctioneer.
Reading is so powerful, and now you can see words everywhere and ask what they are if you don’t know them yet. You also hold us accountable to help you read your book every single night. This of course extends your tactics to avoid sleep that also includes demanding food several times and asking for someone to snuggle you. Reading, food and snuggles all sound like reasonable demands to me.
Love,
Dad